Immortality Quotes - Page 35

• Our love for our children springs from the soul's greatest yearning for immortality.

  Plato

  Children, Plato, Spring

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• If the world is to contain a public space, it cannot be erected for one generation and planned for the living only; it must transcend the life-span of mortal men…. There is perhaps no clearer testimony to the loss of the public realm in the modern age than the almost complete loss of authentic concern with immortality, a loss somewhat overshadowed by the simultaneous loss of the metaphysical concern with eternity.

  Hannah Arendt

  Loss, Men, Space

  Hannah Arendt (2013). “The Human Condition: Second Edition”, p.55, University of Chicago Press

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