Not exact matches
If we were to speculate further
about immortality using the general relational approach of the previous chapters, what else might we
say?
JK: Could you
say something
about your views on
immortality and the possibility of life after death?
I'm proud of Bergson (I'm a Bergsonian to quite an extent); Bergson
said that he was inclined to believe in
immortality, but then later he
said that he was not talking
about an infinite survival.
JK: When I read what you
said about personal
immortality, while I'm inclined to agree with a lot of it — for example, your rejection of egoism — I still have some difficulties with it.
As one of Hugh Walpole's characters
says, «There is a sniff of
immortality about our love for one another.»
If I were to make those critical comments, I should be obliged to
say something at this point
about the way in which this notion of the soul's
immortality is very doubtfully found in the Scriptures and how it is an importation into Christian thinking from elsewhere.
My first statement is simply a repetition of what I have just
said about «objective
immortality».
That value may not be of great interest to many of those watching with more of an eye towards what it
says about salvation and afterlife
immortality.
As Hirst
says: «Diamonds are
about perfection and clarity and wealth and sex and death and
immortality.