Richard Adams Quotes

Men die but an idea does not.

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

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

You die, but most of what you have accumulated will not be lost; you are leaving a message in a bottle.

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.

Death can never kill an idea. Ideas are more powerful than death. Ideas outlive men and can never be destroyed.

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever. It is to create something that will.

When he died he would not end. The world would end.

Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.

The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that's actually happening.

It's not whether you win or lose, it's how many people remember you when you die.

Since we have had a history, men have pursued an ideal of immortality.

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

The first requisite for immortality is death.

That's why I named my album 'Finding Forever,' because that's what I was thinking about: What did I want to contribute to this world that would live beyond my physical existence?

If what you create does not outlive you, then you have failed.

I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on.

Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.

Our bodies will be recycled one way or another, but what about our ideas and minds and characters? Primordial soup? The bourne from which no traveller returns? Interesting and exciting.

Remember that a noble logical diagram, once recorded, will never die; long after we are gone, it will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency.

The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.