„It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.“

— Horace Mann

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„Character is higher than intellect…A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
„I have said that the soul is not more than the body,And I have said that the body is not more than the soul,And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's-self is“
— Walt Whitman
„Neither a person nor a nation can exist without some higher idea. And there is only one higher idea on earth, and it is the idea of the immortality of the human soul, for all other "higher" ideas of life by which humans might live derive from that idea alone.“
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
„And, like the great damned souls, I shall always feel that thinking is worth more than living.“
— Fernando Pessoa