Plato- Metempsychosis μετεμψύχωσις

[The soul of the true philosopher] abstains as much as possible from pleasures and desires, griefs and fears...because each pleasure and pain, having a nail, as it were, nails the soul to the body, and fastens it to it, and causes it to become corporeal, deeming those things to be true whatever the body asserts to be so.  For, in consequence of its forming the same opinions with the body, and delighting in the same things...it can never pass into Hades in a pure state, but must ever depart polluted by the body, and so quickly falls into another body...and consequently is deprived of all association with that which is divine, and pure, and uniform.


-from the Phaedo

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