“All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.”
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classical Greek Athenian philosopher -470–-399 BCRelated quotes
“I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings.”
Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist
Source: To Love This Life: Quotations By Helen Keller
Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936) 19th-20th century Spanish writer and philosopher
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), III : The Hunger of Immortality
Context: I am dreaming...? Let me dream, if this dream is my life. Do not awaken me from it. I believe in the immortal origin of this yearning for immortality, which is the very substance of my soul. But do I really believe in it...? And wherefore do you want to be immortal? you ask me, wherefore? Frankly, I do not understand the question, for it is to ask the reason of the reason, the end of the end, the principle of the principle.
“The Theophilanthropists believe in the existence of God, and the immortality of the soul.”
Thomas Paine (1737–1809) English and American political activist
1790s, Discourse to the Theophilanthropists (1798)
“Know that my soul is immortal. Know this for yourself”
Sai Baba of Shirdi (1836–1918) Hindu and muslim saint
Saying stated to his disciples
“Poor Hayduke: won all his arguments but lost his immortal soul.”
Edward Abbey book The Monkey Wrench Gang
The Monkey Wrench Gang (1975)
“Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
“Plato affirmed that the soul was immortal and clothed in many bodies successively.”
Diogenes Laërtius (180–240) biographer of ancient Greek philosophers
Plato, 40.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 3: Plato
