Soul Quotes - Page 14

• If we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself.

  Plato

  Body, Contemplating, Ifs

  Phaedo, 66d (translated by H Tredennick).

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• A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

  Aldous Huxley

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Point Counter Point (1928) ch. 13

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• Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

  Alexander Pope

  Beauty, Eye, Winning

  'The Rape of the Lock' (1714) canto 5, l. 33

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• Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul the work of the soul, and good for either the work of the other.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Work, Inspiration, Soul And Body

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.18, Courier Corporation

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• Living is being born slowly. It would be a little too easy if we could borrow ready-made souls.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Would Be, Littles, Easy

  "Flight to Arras". Book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1942.

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• Care I for the limb, the thews, the stature, bulk, and big assemblance of a man! Give me the spirit.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Giving, Care

  Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.468, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Confession is good for the conscience, but it usually bypasses the soul.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Bypass, Confession, Conscience

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.91, BookBaby

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• And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.

  Matthew Arnold

  Sight, Hustle, Bustle

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• Life is the soul's nursery.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Life Is, Nursery

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Miscellanies: The memoirs of Barry Lyndon. The history of Samuel Titmarsh and the great Hoggarty diamond. Burlesques”, p.275

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• The action of the soul is oftener in that which is felt and left unsaid than in that which is said in any conversation. It broods over every society, and men unconsciously seek for it in each other.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Action, Conversation

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.167, Penguin

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• The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Men, Umpires, Worry

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• The only substance properly so called is the soul.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Substance

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• Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness on the confines of two everlasting empires, - Necessity and Free Will.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Freedom, Light, Two

  "Essays on Goethe (Goethe's Works)". Book by Thomas Carlyle, 1888.

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• The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, World, American Scholar

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.57, Library of America

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• The soul speaks to you in feelings. Listen... follow [and] honour your feelings.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Feelings, Speak, Honour

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• Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul

  Pythagoras

  Men, Light, Perfection

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• Life was intended to be so adjusted that the body should be the servant of the soul, and always subordinate to the soul.

  J. G. Holland

  Body, Should, Servant

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• We cannot describe the natural history of the soul, but we know that it is divine. All things are known to the soul. It is not to be surprised by any communication. Nothing can be greater than it, let those fear and those fawn who will. The soul is in her native realm; and it is wider than space, older than time, wide as hope, rich as love. Pusillanimity and fear she refuses with a beautiful scorn; they are not for her who putteth on her coronation robes, and goes out through universal love to universal power.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Communication, Space

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• At the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit. And that center is really everywhere. It is within each of us.

  Black Elk

  Peace, Native American, Oneness

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• The dark night of the soul is a journey into light, a journey from your darkness into the strength and hidden resources of your soul.

  Caroline Myss

  Dark, Night, Journey

  Caroline Myss (2009). “Defy Gravity: Healing Beyond the Bounds of Reason”, p.104, Hay House, Inc

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• The human soul is an abyss

  Fernando Pessoa

  Abyss, Humans, Human Soul

  Fernando Pessoa (2006). “A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems”, p.185, Penguin

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• If I am mistaken in my opinion that the human soul is immortal, I willingly err; nor would I have this pleasant error extorted from me; and if, as some minute philosophers suppose, death should deprive me of my being, I need not fear the raillery of those pretended philosophers when they are no more.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Errors, Needs, Opinion

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• Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.

  Martin Luther

  Music, Beautiful, God

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• Secularism, materialism, and the intrusive presence of things have put out the light in our souls and turned us into a generation of zombies.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Light, Zombie, Generations

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.22, Fig

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• It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.20, Open Road Media

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