5883 | Pherecydes was the first to say that the soul is eternal [Pherecydes, by Cicero] |
7469 | There is no hereafter in the Book of Job [Anon (Job), by Watson] |
7467 | The modern idea of an immortal soul was largely created by Pythagoras [Pythagoras, by Watson] |
8233 | Imagine fire burning up your whole body, but not you [Anon (Cent)] |
1513 | The Egyptians were the first to say the soul is immortal and reincarnated [Herodotus] |
20915 | The soul is destroyed with the body [Democritus, by Ps-Plutarch] |
363 | Whether the soul pre-exists our body depends on whether it contains the ultimate standard of reality [Plato] |
146 | Soul is always in motion, so it must be self-moving and immortal [Plato] |
20829 | Virtuous souls endure till the end, foolish souls for a short time, animal souls not at all [Stoic school, by Eusebius] |
6039 | Stoics say virtuous souls last till everything ends in fire, but foolish ones fade away [Stoic school, by ] |
7482 | Resurrection developed in Judaism as a response to martyrdoms, in about 160 BCE [Anon (Dan), by Watson] |
5888 | Souls are born, since they are sensitive and inherited, so they must perish [Panaetius, by Cicero] |
5720 | Spirit is mortal [Lucretius] |
5722 | For a separated spirit to remain sentient it would need sense organs attached to it [Lucretius] |
5725 | An immortal mind couldn't work harmoniously with a mortal body [Lucretius] |
23360 | Each of the four elements in you is entirely scattered after death [Epictetus] |
5765 | The reward of the good is to become gods [Boethius] |
1863 | If the soul achieves well-being in another life, it doesn't follow that I do [Aquinas] |
23306 | Humans have a non-physical faculty of reason, so they can be immortal [Aquinas, by Sorabji] |
2378 | Belief in an afterlife is based on poorly founded gossip [Hobbes] |
7831 | Spinoza's theory of mind implies that there is no immortality [Spinoza, by Stewart,M] |
21876 | After death, something eternal remains of the mind [Spinoza] |
12912 | Immortality without memory is useless [Leibniz] |
21296 | If all of my perceptions were removed by death, nothing more is needed for total annihilation [Hume] |
21797 | Immortality does not come at a later time, but when pure knowing Spirit fully grasps the universal [Hegel] |
2916 | The great lie of immortality destroys rationality and natural instinct [Nietzsche] |
23902 | I attach little importance to immortality, which is an undecidable fact, and irrelevant to us [Weil] |
7349 | Immortality based on judgement of merit was developed by the Egyptians (not the Jews) [Johnson,P] |
7354 | The main doctrine of the Pharisees was belief in resurrection and the afterlife [Johnson,P] |
6709 | Western religion saves us from death; Eastern religion saves us from immortality [Graham] |
7818 | In Greek mythology only heroes can go to heaven [Grayling] |
7817 | To make an afterlife appealing, this life has to be denigrated [Grayling] |
5505 | For Aristotle the psyche perishes with the body (except possibly 'nous') [Martin/Barresi] |
7468 | In ancient Athens the souls of the dead are received by the 'upper air' [Watson] |