What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
Immortality Quotes
Believe me, Captain, immortality consists largely of boredom. (Zefram Cochrane, “Metamorphosis”)
Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. Immortality may be a silly word, but probably a mathematician has the best chance of whatever it may mean.
The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead.
Immortality lies not in the things you leave behind, but in the people your life has touched.
People far prefer happiness to wisdom, but that is like wanting to be immortal without getting older.
Man, whoever you may be, you can still conceive high thoughts for yourself. You can bind thy fleeting life to God, and to immortality.
The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.
No individual exists forever; why should we expect our species to be immortal? Man, said Nietzsche, is a rope stretched between the animal and the superhuman à a rope across the abyss. That will be a noble purpose to have served.
Did He raise a dead man to life? Why, tens of thousands of dead men and women have been raised to life according to all the stories and all the traditions. Was this the only case? All Europe is filled with miracles of that sort, the Catholic church performing miracles almost to the present time. […]
