Reincarnation Quotes - Page 8

• ... I am the same personal being who in old times upon the Earth had those experiences.

  William James

  Earth, Old Time

  William James, Frederick Burkhardt, Fredson Bowers, Ignas K. Skrupskelis (1982). “Essays in Religion and Morality”, p.76, Harvard University Press

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• I am by nature the most intolerant and insular Englishman... If you happen to be a person like that and you learn from evidence (which you are prepared to accept) that in the past you have been a Chinese, an Egyptian, a Persian, a Red Indian... you begin to assume a somewhat less exclusive view of these our fellow men.

  Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding

  Past, Men, Views

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• I have held and hold souls to be immortal.... Speaking as a Catholic, they do not pass from body to body, but go to paradise, purgatory or hell. But I have reasoned deeply, and, speaking as a philosopher, since the soul is not found without body and yet is not body, it may be in one body or in another, and pass from body to body.

  Giordano Bruno

  Soul, Catholic, Body

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• Why should not every individual man have existed more than once upon this world? Why should I not come back as often as I am capable of acquiring fresh knowledge? Is this hypothesis so laughable merely because it is the oldest? Because the human understanding, before the sophistries of the schools had dissipated and debilitated it, lighted upon it at once?

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  School, Men, Understanding

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• There are so many things that are incompatible with a single life. No one can learn fully in one life the lessons of unbroken health and of bodily sickness, of riches and of poverty, of study and action, of comradeship and isolation, of defiance and of obedience, of virtue and of vice.

  J. M. E. McTaggart

  Single Life, Vices, Unbroken

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• Few things are so deadly as a misguided sense of compassion.

  Charles Colson

  Compassion, Misguided

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• Until we find out who was born this time around, it seems irrelevant to seek earlier identities. I have heard many people speak of who they believe they were in previous incarnations, but they seem to have very little idea of who they are in this one. . . . Let’s take one life at a time. Perhaps the best way to do that is to live as though there were no afterlife or reincarnation. To live as though this moment was all that was allotted. (132)

  Stephen Levine

  Believe, Ideas, Afterlife

  Stephen Levine (2009). “A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last”, p.152, Harmony

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• The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards

  Walter Bagehot

  Civilization, Culture, Firsts

  Walter Bagehot (1873). “Physics and Politics: Or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of "natural Selection" and "inheritance" to Political Society”, p.74

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• My only fear of death is reincarnation

  Tupac Shakur

  Rapper, Fear Of Death

  Song: No More Pain, Album: All Eyez on Me, 1996

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• Reincarnation?” He shrugged. “I’ve never seen any evidence that it’s real. But I’ve never seen anything that disproves it either. I believe the afterlife is better than what we have here—and it would take something extraordinary to make someone willing to come back.

  Patricia Briggs

  Real, Believe, Afterlife

  Patricia Briggs (2009). “Hunting Ground”, p.187, Penguin

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• I felt like a monster reincarnation of Horatio Alger: A man on the move, and just sick enough to be totally confident.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Crazy, Moving, Men

  Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.201, Vintage

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• As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relationships with this best and truest friend of mankind that death's image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling, and I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity...of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Death, Opportunity, Keys

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• Odd: I wish I could believe in reincarnation. Chief Porter: Not me. Once down the track is enough of a test. Pass me or fail me, Dear Lord, but don't make me go through high school again. Odd: If there's something we want so bad in this life but we can't have it, maybe we could get it the next time around. Chief Porter: Or maybe not getting it, accepting less without bitterness and being grateful for what we have is a part of what we're here to learn.

  Dean Koontz

  Believe, Grateful, School

  Dean Koontz (2014). “The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd”, p.356, Bantam

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• Seeing the rebirth of the Delaware Estuary as a valuable natural resource is certainly encouraging, and I am encouraged not just by the progress made in the Delaware Estuary but in estuaries throughout the country.

  Jim Gerlach

  Country, Progress, Rebirth

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• Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Strong, Reality, Research

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• He won't fly on the Balinese airline, Garuda, because he won't fly on any airline where the pilots believe in reincarnation.

  Spalding Gray

  Travel, Believe, Pilots

  Spalding Gray (1992). “Monster in a Box”, Vintage

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• The problem we have is not Labour, in however it is configured.

  Francis Maude

  Problem, Labour

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• Whether you believe in God or not does not matter so much, whether you believe in Buddha or not does not matter so much; as a Buddhist, whether you believe in reincarnation or not does not matter so much. You must lead a good life. And a good life does not mean just good food, good clothes, good shelter. These are not sufficient. A good motivation is what is needed: compassion, without dogmatism, without complicated philosophy; just understanding that others are human brothers and sisters and respecting their rights and human dignity.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Brother, Buddhist

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• The basic idea is that there is this group that, over the centuries, has learned to control reincarnation. John's character stumbles into that realization, and it's a lot closer to him than he would ever have wanted to know. It's a metaphor for when you get in a fight with your significant other and you go, "Who is this?," or you look in the mirror and go, "Why did I say that?" It's the intruder. When you threw a temper tantrum at two years old, it's them.

  Glen Morgan

  Character, Fighting, Years

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't use the term 'miracle' lightly. I don't believe in God, or reincarnation, or destiny, or the Publishers' Clearinghouse Sweepstakes.

  Rick Reynolds

  Believe, Destiny, Miracle

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• Do people who believe in reincarnation ever say, Darn, I'm still writing the year 1612 on my checks!

  Brian Regan

  Believe, Writing, Years

  Twitter post from Jan 29, 2013

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• I suppose you do think about the time that's allotted to you more than when you were younger. The mortality thing obviously has a stronger pull for you. It's an imminent truth; it's not necessarily a bad thing. You realize - much earlier than my age now - that you won't be able to play for England's football team, just to take a really crass example. So you can't have that life again. Unless you believe in reincarnation or whatever. Reincarnation? That's a whole other question. I find people who talk about that sort of thing in interviews idiotic. And I don't want to go down with them.

  Mick Jagger

  Football, Team, Believe

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• I do believe in reincarnation, but I do not believe there is life before noon.

  Florence King

  Believe, Noon

  Florence King (1978). “He: An Irreverent Look at the American Male”, Scarborough House

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• Unless you believe in reincarnation, this is your one shot.

  Judy Sheindlin

  Life, Believe, Shots

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• Actually, I do like pink clothes, but it's not because I'm girly, it's because I'm the reincarnation of Oscar Wilde.

  Mara Wilson

  Girly, Clothes, Oscars

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