Reincarnation Quotes - Page 6

• I don't believe in reincarnation, and I didn't believe in it when I was a hamster.

  Shane Richie

  Funny, Believe, Afterlife

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• If we could see ourselves... as we really are, we should see ourselves in a world of spiritual natures, our community which neither began at birth nor will end with the death of the body.

  Immanuel Kant

  Spiritual, Community, World

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• The doctrine of transmigration… was a means of constructing a plausible vindication of the ways of the cosmos to man; … none but very hasty thinkers will reject it on the grounds of inherent absurdity.

  Thomas Huxley

  Mean, Men, Way

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• I think reincarnation is possible. Hopefully, we all get recycled.

  Christina Ricci

  Fun, Thinking, Recycling

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• Reincarnation is an apprehension of a movement and the movement occurs in time. Without time, there is no reincarnation. Reincarnation is a reflection of time in this world.

  Frederick Lenz

  Reflection, Movement, World

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• Many practitioners think there is some giant balance scale, where someone is keeping track, like Santa Claus, and that will determine your allotment of presents. That's a very exoteric understanding of reincarnation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Thinking, Track, Understanding

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• Reincarnation is not what a lot of people think. Yes, we are eternal. No, everyone does not attain enlightenment; it's not necessary; life is smarter than we are.

  Frederick Lenz

  Thinking, People, Enlightenment

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• To think you can just go out and help people and somehow get a better life is not reincarnation as I know it. A better life comes from being happy and inner realizations. Now if helping others adds to that, well then, it's great.

  Frederick Lenz

  Helping Others, Thinking, People

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• The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew… it passes into other habitations, for the soul is immortal.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Soul, Body, Abode

  "In the Beauty of the Lilies: A Love Story That Opens Doors to Spiritual Values". Book by Gerald O. Doyle (p. 56), 2002.

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• It is a strong proof of men knowing most things before birth, that when mere children they grasp innumerable facts with such speed as to show that they are not then taking them in for the first time, but are remembering and recalling them.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Strong, Children, Men

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pliny (2010). “Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero with His Treatises on Friendship and Old Age: Letters of Pliny the Younger”, p.75, Cosimo, Inc.

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• To me this is the most beautiful, the most satisfactory from a scientific standpoint, the most logical theory of life. For thirty years I have leaned toward the theory of Reincarnation. It seems a most reasonable philosophy and explains many things.

  Henry Ford

  Beautiful, Philosophy, Years

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• There are more people alive today than have everdied. If that's true, and you believe in reincarnation, then thatmeans there are a lot of people walking around without souls...I've met some of them... Haven't you?

  Bridget Fonda

  Believe, People, Soul

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• As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race... and the hearts of the meanest were humbled.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Heart, Race, Age

  Rudyard Kipling, “The Gods Of The Copybook Headings”

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• We all return. It is this certainty that gives meaning to life and it does not make the slightest difference whether or not in a later incarnation we remember the former life. What counts is not the individual and his comfort, but the great aspiration to the perfect and the pure which goes on in each incarnation.

  Gustav Mahler

  Differences, Giving, Perfect

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• Its not possible to do the wrong thing. You do what you do and you experience the consequences of what you do. If you do not experience this before you doe, your soul creates a new life so that you can. This is reincarnation. Eventually, you treat people as you would like to be treated.

  Gary Zukav

  People, Soul, Doe

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• Of what use would it be to you, sir, to become King of China on condition that you forgot what you have been? Would it not be the same as if God, at the same time he destroyed you, created a King in China?

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Kings, Use, China

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• Rejoice that man is hurled, From change to change unceasingly, His soul's wings never furled!

  Robert Browning

  Men, Wings, Soul

  Robert Browning (1830). “An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry”, p.40

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• In an age of synthetic images and synthetic emotions, the chances of an accidental encounter with reality are remote indeed.

  Serge Daney

  Reality, Age, Encounters

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• I believe that pluralistic secularism, in the long run, is a more deadly poison than straightforward persecution.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Running, Atheist, Believe

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• The choice of souls was in most cases based on their own experience of a previous life... Knowledge easily acquired is that which the enduing self had in an earlier life, so that it flows back easily.

  Plato

  Self, Choices, Soul

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• It would be interesting if Elvis were reincarnated as an Elvis impersonator.

  Demetri Martin

  Interesting, Would Be, Impersonators

  Twitter post from Nov 21, 2013

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• If you're really a mean person you're going to come back as a fly and eat poop.

  Kurt Cobain

  Karma, Mean, Poop

  "Monk" Magazine, October 1992.

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• Whether you believe in God or not does not matter 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.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Buddhist, Good Life

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• If you ask me, reincarnation is just another way to procrastinate.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Procrastination, Way, Ask Me

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• The most promising evidence bearing on reincarnation seems to come from the spontaneous cases, especially among children.

  Ian Stevenson

  Children, Spontaneous, Cases

  Ian Stevenson (1980). “Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation”, p.3, University of Virginia Press

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