Soul Man Quotes

• Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.

  Saint Augustine

  Heart, Men, Hair

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• Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

  Oscar Wilde

  Music, Art, Creative

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1043, GENERAL PRESS

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  To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "The Soul of Man Under Socialism" (1891)

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• Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.

  Mahalia Jackson

  Faith, Prayer, Health

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• Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written.

  Oscar Wilde

  Self Esteem, World, Antiques

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.305, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.

  Plato

  Men, Soul, Immortality

  Plato, General Press (2016). “The Republic”, p.506, GENERAL PRESS

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• A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.

  Oscar Wilde

  Doe, World, Maps

  "The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde".

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• The worst slave owners were those who were kind to their slaves

  Oscar Wilde

  Slave Owners, Kind, Worst

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.1041, Wordsworth Editions

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• [T]he recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses. It has led Individualism entirely astray. It has made gain, not growth its aim. So that man thought that the important thing is to have, and did not know that the important thing is to be.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Confusing, Growth

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.1045, Wordsworth Editions

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• There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the Pope. The third is called the People.

  Oscar Wilde

  Government, Soul And Body, People

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.282, University of Chicago Press

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• The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace.

  Oscar Wilde

  Perfect, Personality, Rebellion

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1038, GENERAL PRESS

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• The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Lying, Men

  "The Soul of Man Under Socialism" (1891)

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• Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Philosophical, Inspiration, Being Alone

  c. AD 170-180 Meditations, bk.4, no.3 (translated by M Staniforth).

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• Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Sad, Beautiful

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.64, Oscar Wilde

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• There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

  Oscar Wilde

  Money, Thinking, Class

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.1047, Wordsworth Editions

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• Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

  Oscar Wilde

  Eye, Men, History

  "The Soul of Man Under Socialism". Essay by Oscar Wilde, 1891.

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• The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Thought Provoking, Quality, Human Nature

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.1062, Wordsworth Editions

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• All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised.

  Oscar Wilde

  Exercise, Authority, Degrading

  "The Soul of Man Under Socialism" (1891)

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• Prayer is beyond any question the highest activity of the human soul. Man is at his greatest and highest when upon his knees he comes face to face with God.

  Martyn

  Prayer, Men, Soul

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• I pay homage and respect to Bobby Womack [for Black History Month] knowing that he passed last year... Him being one of those artists that I have really sampled so much and just been so inspired by... You know, he is the original ‘soul man.’

  Big K.R.I.T.

  Artist, Men, Knowing

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• I have increasingly become conversant with Pythagoras' and Goethe's idea of a primordial music, not perceptible to the sensuous ear, but sounding and soaring throughout the cosmos. Tracing it to such exalted origins, I begin to understand more deeply the essence of our art and its elemental power over the human soul. Man, being a creature of Nature and subject to the cosmic influences that inform all earthly beings, must needs have been under the sway of that music from his earliest days; his organism reverberated with its vibrations and received it's rhythmic impulses.

  Bruno Walter

  Art, Men, Ideas

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• Thank God our time is now when wrong comes up to meet us everywhere never to leave us till we take, the greatest stride of the soul man ever took. affairs are now soul size the enterprise is exploration unto God. Where are you making for? It takes so many thousand years to wake. But will you wake for pity's sake?

  Christopher Fry

  Men, Years, Soul

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• It is God's earth out of which man is taken. From it he has his body. His body belongs to his essential being. Man's body is not his prison, his shell his exterior, but man himself. Man does not "have" a body; he does not "have" a soul; rather he "is" body and soul. Man in the beginning is really his body. He is one. He is his body, as Christ is completely his body, as the Church is the body of Christ

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Taken, Men, Soul

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1983). “The martyred Christian: 160 readings from Dietrich Bonhoeffer”, Scribner

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