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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 soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.
In culture after culture, people believe that the soul lives on after death, that rituals can change the physical world and divine the truth, and that illness and misfortune are caused and alleviated by spirits, ghosts, saints ... and gods.
STEVEN PINKER, How the Mind Works
- Dear Night! this world's defeat;
- The stop to busy fools; care's check and curb;
- The day of spirits; my soul's calm retreat
- Which none disturb!
- Christ's progress, and His prayer-time;
- The hours to which high Heaven doth chime.
HENRY VAUGHAN, Silex Scintillans
Everywhere and always, since its very inception, Christianity has turned the earth into a vale of tears; always it has made of life a weak, diseased thing, always it has instilled fear in man, turning him into a dual being, whose life energies are spent in the struggle between body and soul. In decrying the body as something evil, the flesh as the tempter to everything that is sinful, man has mutilated his being in the vain attempt to keep his soul pure, while his body rotted away from the injuries and tortures inflicted upon it.
EMMA GOLDMAN, Mother Earth, April 1913
I do not want to live with a soul without a body. Nudity is the reflection of innocence.
KAMALA SURAYYA, Sify News & Info, Jan. 1, 2003
- And when life's sweet fable ends,
- Soul and body part like friends;
- No quarrels, murmurs, no delay;
- A kiss, a sigh, and so away.
RICHARD CRASHAW, Temperance
There's no such thing as a soul. It's just something they made up to scare kids, like the boogeyman or Michael Jackson.
Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them. Some minds are incapable of skepticism.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON, "Montaigne; or, the Skeptic," Representative Men
A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.
THOMAS CARLYLE, speech in support of the London Library, 1840
Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy -- the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.
ERIC HOFFER, The Passionate State of Mind
Negativity is an addiction to the bleak shadow that lingers around every human form ... you can transfigure negativity by turning it toward the light of your soul.
JOHN O'DONOHUE, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
Art is a microscope which the artist fixes on the secrets of his soul, and shows to people these secrets which are common to all.
Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking.
EDWARD DAHLBERG, Alms for Oblivion
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
The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul.
Reincarnation is essential to enable the soul to evolve to its Divine right.
R.F. GOUDEY, Reincarnation: A Universal Truth
Imagination is the eye of the soul.
- I count life just a stuff
- To try the soul's strength on.
ROBERT BROWNING, In a Balcony
Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.
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