Saul Bellow Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• The soul has to find and hold its ground against hostile forces, sometimes embodied in ideas which frequently deny its very existence, and which indeed often seem to be trying to annul it altogether.

  Saul Bellow

  Ideas, Soul, Trying

  Foreword to "The Closing of the American Mind" by Allan Bloom, pp. 16-17, 1987.

• In the greatest confusion there is still an open channel to the soul. It may be difficult to find because by midlife it is overgrown, and some of the wildest thickets that surround it grow out of what we describe as our education. But the channel is always there, and it is our business to keep it open, to have access to the deepest part of ourselves.

  Saul Bellow

  Business, Confusion, Soul

  Foreword to "The Closing of the American Mind" by Allan Bloom, 1987.

• Humankind struggles with collective powers for its freedom, the individual struggles with dehumanization for the possession of his soul.

  Saul Bellow

  Struggle, Soul, Individual

  Saul Bellow (2016). “It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future”, p.88, Odyssey Editions

• Art -- the fresh feeling, new harmony, the transforming magic which by means of myth brings back the scattered distracted soul from its modern chaos -- art, not politics, is the remedy.

  Saul Bellow

  Art, Mean, Soul

• I don’t actually take much stock in the collapsing culture bit. I’m beginning to see it instead as the conduct of life without input from your soul.

  Saul Bellow

  Soul, Culture, Input

  Saul Bellow (2001). “Collected stories”, Penguin Group USA

• In here, the human bosom -- mine, yours, everybody's -- there isn't just one soul. There's a lot of souls. But there are two main ones, the real soul and a pretender soul. Now! Every man realizes that he has to love something or somebody. He feels that he must go outward. 'If thou canst not love, what art thou?' Are you with me?

  Saul Bellow

  Art, Real, Men

• A human soul devoid of longing was a soul deformed, deprived of its highest good, sick unto death.

  Saul Bellow

  Sick, Soul, Desire

  Saul Bellow (2015). “Ravelstein”, p.13, Penguin

• In the history of the world many souls have been, are, and will be, and with a little reflection this is marvelous and not depressing. Many jerks are made gloomy about it, for they think quantity buries them alive. That's just crazy. Numbers are very dangerous, but the main thing about them is that they humble your pride. And that's good.

  Saul Bellow

  Depressing, Crazy, Humble

• It is wrong to turn a man (a subject) into a thing (an object). By means of spiritual dialogue, the I-It relationship becomes an I-Thou relationship. God comes and goes in man's soul. And men come and go in each other's souls. Sometimes they come and go in each other's beds, too.

  Saul Bellow

  Spiritual, Mean, Men

  Saul Bellow (1976). “Herzog”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

• The body, she says, is subject to the force of gravity. But the soul is ruled by levity, pure.

  Saul Bellow

  Love, Funny, Soul

  "Him with His Foot in His Mouth" (1984)

• ...there is no old age of the soul.

  Saul Bellow

  Soul, Age, Aging

• (Socrates) said there were only two possibilities. Either the soul is immortal or, after death, things would be again as blank as they were before we were born.

  Saul Bellow

  Two, Soul, Would Be

  Saul Bellow (2008). “Humboldt's Gift”, Penguin Classics

• An exchange occurs between man and woman. Love and thought complete each other in the human pair, and something like an exchange of souls takes place, according to the divine plan.

  Saul Bellow

  Love, Men, Soul

• A millennial belief in a Holy God may have the effect of deepening the soul, but it is also obviously archaic, and modern influences would presently bring me up to date and reveal how antiquated my origins were. To turn away from those origins, however, has always seemed to me an utter impossibility. It would be a treason to my first consciousness to un-Jew myself.

  Saul Bellow

  Soul, Would Be, Millennials

  Saul Bellow (2015). “There Is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction”, p.258, Penguin

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