Immortality of Ideas Quotes

I’ll tell you this, I may be dead but my ideas will not die.

The great men of earth are the shadow men, who, having lived and died, now live again and forever through their undying thoughts. Thus living, though their footfalls are heard no more, their voices are louder than the thunder, and unceasing as the flow of tides or air.

Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

You can kill a thousand; you can bring an end to life; you cannot kill an idea.

Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.

Ideas are intangible forces, but they have more power than the physical brains that give birth to them. They have the power to live on, after the brain that creates them has returned to dust.

On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger.

Nobody died. how can you kill an idea? How can you kill the personification of an action?" "Then what died? who are you mourning?" "A point of view.

Thinkers perish, thoughts don't.

We all know that books burn—yet we have the greater knowledge that books cannot be killed by fire. People die but books never die.

The newest books are those that never grow old.

An idea doesn't die," said Trapp. "It exists somewhere, in its own dimension, waiting to be perceived.

The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.

We all know that books burn, yet we have the greater knowledge that books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can put thought in a concentration camp forever. No man and no force can take from the world the books that embody man's eternal fight against tyranny of every kind.

I'm not a person who wants to die with my shoes on. I do not think I can be immortal. Maybe my deeds will be immortal. Not me.

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

Christianity is an idea, and as such is indestructible and immortal, like every idea.

I would love to write something that people would still read 50 or 100 years from now. That comes with growing older, I think.

It's amazing that a man who is dead can talk to people through these pages. As long as this books survives, his ideas live.

The actions of bad men produce only temporary evil, the actions of good men only temporary good ; and eventually the good and the evil altogether subside, are neutralized by subsequent generations, absorbed by the incessant movements of future ages. But the discoveries of great men never leave us; they are immortal; they contain those eternal truths which survive the shock of empires, outlive the struggles of rival creeds, and witness the decay of successive religions.