It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Immortality is a by-product of good work.
Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an after-life.
Immortality is to live your life doing good things, and leaving your mark behind.
Perhaps one reason for the falling-off of belief in a continuance of conscious existence is to be found in the quality of life that most of us lead. There is not much in it with which, in any kind of reason, one can associate the idea of immortality.
Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
I don't think immortality is necessarily the key to understanding the world. You have to be careful with what you think you're achieving. I'm all for science discovering amazing and fantastic things about our world, but I think the motivations behind it are slightly askew.
Immortality. We all want to be remembered: We want to do things that will make people say, 'Isn't he wonderful?'
If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.
Personally, I would not care for immortality in the least. There is nothing better than oblivion, since in oblivion there is no wish unfulfilled. We had it before we were born yet did not complain. Shall we whine because we know it will return? It is Elysium enough for me, at any rate.
The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.