Michael Shermer Quotes

Either the soul survives death or it does not, and there is no scientific evidence that it does.

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• No one who is in this world will deny that evils exist. What, then, do we say? That evil is not a living and animated substance, but a condition of the soul which is opposed to virtue and which springs up In the slothful because of their falling away from good.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Up
  • World
  • Good

• I'm an old-school, embarrassing Joni Mitchell fan. Her music made a hook in my soul and hasn't let go for all these years. I even sing her songs as lullabies to my kids.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Music
  • School
  • Kids

• Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Soul
  • Liberty
  • Equality

• If the angel Gabriel came to me and said, 'Look, I'm willing to take your soul now and give it back to you at any period of time in the history of the nation of Israel, from the very beginning to this very day' - I think I would not think of any other time except for when Moses brought down the Ten Commandments from Mount Sinai.

  

  Yitzhak Navon
  • Time
  • History
  • Soul

• I think the body is the ultimate thing. The soul and mind are part of the body. I don't think there is anything outside of that. Your physical self is who you are. Some people feel that that is reductionist, but I don't think it is. It's just true.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Mind
  • True

• The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

  

  Ferdinand Foch
  • Soul
  • Earth
  • Powerful

• I defy anyone to produce any evidence that the word 'happy' has ever crossed my lips. I am not now, nor have I ever been, 'happy.'

  

  Larry David
  • Happy
  • Evidence

• One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Soul
  • Growing
  • Teacher

• That cry of the soul to be lifted out of the bondage of the narrow circle of life, which carries up to God the protest and yearning of suffering man, never finds a more sublime expression than where humanity is oppressed and religion is corrupt.

  

  Hall Caine
  • Life
  • Up
  • God

• Do activities you're passionate about - which make your heart and soul feel perky - including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Writing
  • Heart
  • Art

• Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Soul
  • Night
  • Light

• The soul of Iran incarnate in the body of India.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Soul

• There's something about a pious man such as he. He will cheerfully cut your throat if it suits him, but he will hesitate to endanger the welfare of your immaterial and problematical soul.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Soul

• Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Soul
  • Faith
  • Attitude

• I sent my Soul through the Invisible, Some letter of that After-life to spell: And by and by my Soul return'd to me, And answer'd 'I Myself am Heav'n and Hell:'

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Life
  • Soul

• Because the truth is that gossip is as good as gospel in this town. You can save face but you won't ever save your soul. And that's a fact.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Good
  • Truth
  • Soul

• The sophist is concerned with wisdom, not for its own sake, not because he hates the lie in the soul more than anything else, but for the sake of the honor or the prestige that attends wisdom.

  

  Leo Strauss
  • Soul
  • Wisdom
  • Honor

• I genuinely enjoy sweating out my frustrations and living a healthier life. My workouts are not all about vanity. They are about clarity for my mind and soul.

  

  Khloe Kardashian
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Soul

• Many of the architectural features found in it were first tried out in other buildings, such as the tombs of the emperors Humayun and Akbar.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks

• I'm always a little cautious, there's a few amendments that are out there that I think could do some damage, so I've been more concerned about over regulating, going too far.

  

  Don Nickles

• Ethiopians imagine their gods as black and snub-nosed; Thracians blue-eyed and red-haired. But if horses or lions had hands, or could draw and fashion works as men do, horses would draw the gods shaped like horses and lions like lions, making the gods resemble themselves.

  

  Xenophanes
  • Men
  • Black
  • Fashion

• I feel it's important to be active. People who retire, sit by their swimming pool and golf course and plan to relax have a very empty life.

  

  Betty Ford
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• Either the soul survives death or it does not, and there is no scientific evidence that it does.

  

  Michael Shermer
  • Soul
  • Evidence
  • Scientific