SOUL QUOTES II
quotations about the soul
Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.
MARK TWAIN
Following the Equator
The spiritual body is the result or outcome of the soul's action, but is not the soul itself. It is an attribute of the soul, just as the soul is an attribute of the divine Ego, and this divine Ego in its turn is a crystallized attribute or expression of Deity. What, then, is Deity? The answer is, Absolute Potentiality; pure, formless spirit; unlimited, unconditioned intelligence. Definition can go no farther. This human body, through the mediumship of the brain, which is the sounding board of the senses, communicate with the external world, which is composed of various elements. The result is form, sound, color, etc. Our senses, then, constitute the only source of our external knowledge, and form the basis from which spring our ideas, thoughts and feelings.
WALTER MATTHEWS
"The Soul", Human Life from Many Angles
The soul can never be corrupted with the corruption of the body, but it is like the wind which causes the sound of the organ, and which ceases to produce a good effect when a pipe is spoilt.
LEONARDO DA VINCI
Thoughts on Art and Life
The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.
MADAME SWETCHINE
"Airelles", The Writings of Madame Swetchine
The soul is a magician. Only living flesh hampers it.
TANITH LEE
Death's Master
The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond; and must be polished, or the lustre of it will never appear.
DANIEL DEFOE
The Education of Women
The only thing on earth that can determine itself is a human soul.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
The rebirth of the soul is perpetual; only rebirth every hour could stay the hand of Satan.
JAMES BALDWIN
Go Tell It on the Mountain
The soul which fathoms every league of the celestial arc--knows, as a mariner the sea, the distant latitudes where comets flame, and worlds career, and constellations shake their awful clusters--wanders amid the spectral nebula, and makes suns and systems to be but glittering beads upon the aspiring thread of its induction, cannot perish. There is a future life. In a universe so spherical and whole as this, reason argues that its own incompleteness and capacity for more are suggestive--are prophetical. Under-shadows and cross-lights of mystery, these filmy depths of present being, shudder in sympathy with something beyond.
E. H. CHAPIN
Living Words
When a human soul draws its first furrow straight, the rest will follow surely.
HONORÉ DE BALZAC
Seraphita
Fireflies drift on a midnight fog
One soul now
Twinkling gifts from a puzzling god
One soul now
Journey out into the fields
One soul now
Crane our necks and watch us wheel
One soul now
COWBOY JUNKIES
"One Soul Now"
The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach.
CARL JUNG
The Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man
He's the king of the ninth world
The twisted son of the fog bells toll
In each and every lobster cage
A tortured human soul
STING
"The Soul Cages"
The worldly wisdom of the foolish man
Is like a sieve, that does alone retain
The grosser substance of the worthless bran:
But thou, my soul, let thy brave thoughts disdain
So coarse a purchase: O be thou a fan
To purge the chaff, and keep the winnow'd grain:
Make clean thy thoughts, and dress thy mixt desires:
Thou art Heav'n's tasker, and thy God requires
The purest of thy flow'r, as well as of thy fires.
FRANCIS QUARLES
Emblems
Some men have a Sunday soul, which they screw on in due time, and take off again every Monday morning.
ROBERT HALL
attributed, Wise Sayings of the Great and Good
The blackest murder is the killing of the Soul's aspirations!
EDWIN LEIBFREED
"The Song of the Soul"
The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.
NICHOLAS SPARKS
The Notebook
I do not want to live with a soul without a body. Nudity is the reflection of innocence.
KAMALA SURAYYA
Sify News & Info, January 1, 2003
Let us duly learn to prize and value our Souls: Is the body such a valuable piece, what then is the Soul? The body is but a husk of shell, the Soul is the kernel; the body is but the cask, the Soul is the precious liquor contained in it; the body is but the cabinet, the Soul is the jewel; the body is but the dwelling, the Soul the inhabitant.
WELLINS CALCOTT
Thoughts Moral and Divine
The soul is presupposed as a ready-made agent, which displays such features as its acts and utterances, from which we can learn what it is, what sort of faculties and powers it possesses -- all without being aware that the act and utterance of what the soul is really invests it with that character in our conception and makes it reach a higher stage of being than it explicitly had before.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL
Hegel's Philosophy of Mind