Soul Quotes

• It is not necessary to ask whether soul and body are one, just as it is not necessary to ask whether the wax and its shape are one, nor generally whether the matter of each thing and that of which it is the matter are one. For even if one and being are spoken of in several ways, what is properly so spoken of is the actuality.

  

  Aristotle
  • Body
  • Matter
  • Thing

• But nothing is yet clear on the subject of the intellect and the contemplative faculty. However, it seems to be another kind of soul, and this alone admits of being separated, as that which is eternal from that which is perishable, while it is clear from these remarks that the other parts of the soul are not separable, as some assert them to be, though it is obvious that they are conceptually distinct.

  

  Aristotle
  • Alone
  • Intellect
  • Obvious

• Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.

  

  Aristotle
  • Soul
  • Exist
  • Fairly

• Sulky labor, and the labor of sorrow are little worth: if you could only shed tranquility over the conscience and infuse joy into the soul, you would do more to make the man a thorough worker than if you could lend him the force of Hercules, or the hundred arms of Briareus.

  

  William Wilberforce
  • Men
  • Joy
  • Sorrow

• The soul that does not consider the question of the body’s self-sufficiency cannot make itself self-sufficient.

  

  Apollonius of Tyana
  • Soul
  • Question

• The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

  

  James A. Baldwin
  • Soul
  • Question

• When we come face-to-face with one down a dark alley, we're going to be having a shufti to see if it's solid, aren't we, we're not going to be asking, 'Excuse me, are you the imprint of a departed soul?

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Soul
  • Dark
  • Departed

• Good name in man and woman is the immediate jewel of their souls.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Names
  • Reputation

• Scatman, fat man, black and white and brown man, tell me 'bout the color of your soul.

  

  Scatman John
  • Soul
  • Color

• By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature opens an inviting and guiding path toward a spiritual life.

  

  Thomas More
  • Spiritual
  • Vision
  • Path

• Thus die I, thus, thus, thus. Now am I dead, Now am I fled; My soul is in the sky: Tongue, lose thy light; Moon take thy flight. Now die, die, die, die, die.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Light
  • Moon
  • Sky

• I think theatre is by far the most rewarding experience for an actor. You get 4 weeks to rehearse your character and then at 7:30 pm you start acting and nobody stops you, acting with your entire soul.

  

  Christopher Eccleston
  • Character
  • Experience
  • Theatre

• The judge who sits over the murderer and looks into his face, and at one moment recognizes all the emotions and potentialities and possibilities of the murderer in his own soul and hears the murderer's voice as his own, is at the next moment one and indivisible as the judge, and scuttles back into the shell of his cultivated self and does his duty and condemns the murderer to death.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Judge
  • Possibilities
  • Murderer

• The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Soul

• Not alone to know, but to act according to thy knowledge, is thy destination,--proclaims the voice of my inmost soul. Not for indolent contemplation and study of thyself, nor for brooding over emotions of piety,--no, for action was existence given thee; thy actions, and thy actions alone, determine thy worth.

  

  Johann Gottlieb Fichte
  • Knowledge
  • Action
  • Alone

• When you fail to tell the truth, you are kept bound to the past in ways that devastate your soul.

  

  Debbie Ford
  • Truth
  • Soul
  • Past

• But he whose inborn worth his acts commend, Of gentle soul, to human race a friend.

  

  Homer
  • Soul
  • Human Race
  • Inborn

• Soul development depends on attachment and bonding. Every brain and body is genetically wired to develop itself, but the full soul development of brain and body depends on each child receiving the care of between two and five completely bonded caregivers.

  

  Michael Gurian
  • Brain
  • Child
  • Development

• I would never, ever in my life say, 'I want to go to Washington to heal the soul of Washington.'

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Washington

• Living creatures possess a moving soul and a certain spiritual superiority which in this respect make them similar to those who possess intellect (people) and they have the power of affecting their welfare and their food and they flee from pain and death.

  

  Nahmanides
  • People
  • Power
  • Death

• When therefore the first spark of a desire after God arises in thy soul, cherish it with all thy care, give all thy heart into it; it is nothing less than a touch of the divine loadstone, that is to draw thee out of the vanity of time, into the riches of eternity.

  

  William Law
  • Heart
  • Giving
  • Christian

• There needs not a great soul to make a hero; there needs a god-created soul which will be true to its origin; that will be a great soul!

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Great
  • Soul
  • Hero

• The majority, who through the blindness of their reason do not discern the damages which the soul has sustained, only feel the pain of external injuries, because the faculty of judgment, which alone can enable them to apprehend the damage to the mind, is taken from them.

  

  Philo
  • Mind
  • Alone
  • Pain

• Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!

  

  John Donne
  • Soul

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