For any man, who is not devoid of sense, must fear, if he has no knowledge and can give no account of the soul's immortality.
 Plato, Phaedo. copy citation

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Author Plato
Source Phaedo
Topic immortality fear
Date
Language English
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Note Translated by Benjamin Jowett
Weblink http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1658/1658-h/1658-h.htm

Context

“and her entrance into the human form may be a sort of disease which is the beginning of dissolution, and may at last, after the toils of life are over, end in that which is called death. And whether the soul enters into the body once only or many times, does not, as you say, make any difference in the fears of individuals. For any man, who is not devoid of sense, must fear, if he has no knowledge and can give no account of the soul's immortality. This, or something like this, I suspect to be your notion, Cebes; and I designedly recur to it in order that nothing may escape us, and that you may, if you wish, add or subtract anything. But, said Cebes, as far as I see at present, I have nothing to add or subtract:” source