The body is mortal, but the person dwelling in the body is immortal and immeasurable. – Bhagavad Gita
As person abandons worn-out clothes and acquires new ones, so when the body is worn out a new one is acquired by the Self, who lives within. – Bhagavad Gita
A mans own self is his friend. A mans own self is his foe. – Bhagavad Gita
For one who has been honored, dishonor is worse than death. – Bhagavad Gita
Man, so far as natural science by itself is able to teach us, is no longer the final cause of the universe, the Heaven-descended heir of all the ages. His very existence is an accident, his story a brief and transitory episode in the life of one of the meanest of the planets. – Arthur Balfour