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Classical antiquity8 quotes
The soul is in a way all existing things. — Aristotle · 350 BCThere are more disorders of the mind than of the body, and they are of a more dangerous nature. — Cicero · 45 BC’Tis very dishonourable in life, that the soul should fail and desert its duty; while the body can hold out, and sustain its part. — Marcus Aurelius · 180The soul of man is immortal and imperishable. — Socrates · 375 BCDeath is, you see, one or the other of two things: either to be dead is to be non-existent, as it were, and a dead person has no awareness of anything at all; or else, as we are told, the soul undergoes some sort of transformation, or exchanging of this present world for another. — Socrates · 399 BCIt is perfectly certain that the soul is immortal and imperishable, and our souls will actually exist in another world. — Socrates · 347 BCAll 8 quotes →Ancient World1 quote
If any man thinks he slays, and if another thinks he is slain, neither knows the ways of truth. The Eternal in man cannot kill: the Eternal in man cannot die. He is never born, and he never dies. He is in Eternity, he is for evermore. Never-born and eternal, beyond times gone or to come, he does not die when the body dies. — Bhagavad Gita · 200 BCNew Testament Era1 quote
For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? — Jesus · 60Old Testament Era1 quote
And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. — Genesis 2:7 · 1405 BC