transmigration

makes every meal a possible parricide: the meat on your knife may lodge an ancestor’s spirit.

Recast in definition form from: “… come across the soul of an ancestor and with knife …”

meant for Pythagoras that no soul ever perishes except for a tiny interval while it is poured from one body into another.

Recast in definition form from: “Pythagoras, on the other hand, held that all beings were interrelated, and that there was a system of exchange between souls which transmigrated from one bodily shape into another. If one may believe him, no soul perishes or ceases from its functions at all, except for a tiny interval — when it is being poured from one body into another.”

would still not make a man of a hog: even sure that Heliogabalus's soul were in one of his hogs, nobody would call the hog a man or Heliogabalus.

Recast in definition form from: “But yet I think nobody, could he be sure that the SOUL of Heliogabalus were in one of his hogs, would yet say that hog were a MAN or Heliogabalus.”

of souls is the myth that comes closest to philosophical truth: whoever kills a beast must one day be born as that beast and die the same death — its threats need no other hell, for they are supported by the suffering creatures before our eyes.

Recast in definition form from: “All the pains which the myth threatens it supports with perceptions from actual life, through suffering creatures which do not know how they have merited their misery, and it does not require to call in the assistance of any other hell Never has a myth entered, and never will one enter, more closely into the philosophical truth”

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resurrection

soul

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blonde joke

bumper sticker

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cockney rhyming slang

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comeback

confucius say

cool comparisons

curse

death mask

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etymology

false attribution

famous last word

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let's make like a  . . .

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my wife left me

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pickup line

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someone should invent

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there's a word for that

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transmigration, n.All

transmigration