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Quotes About Soul

It is the mind that makes the man, and our vigour is in our immortal soul.
~ Ovid
Medicine heals the body, meditation heals the soul. Medicine is outwardly, meditation is inwardly. And man is whole only when medicine and meditation are together in deep harmony.
~ Rajneesh
The soul lets no man go without some visitations and holy-days of a diviner presence.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
For, rightly, every man is a channel through which heaven floweth, and, whilst I fancied I was criticising him, I was censuring orrather terminating my own soul.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Human life is now molded to a large extent by the changes that man has brought about in his external environment and by his attempts at controlling body and soul.
~ Rene Dubos
Diseases crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, rivel them up like old apples, make them as so many Anatomies.
~ Robert A. Burton
Appalling is the soul of a man! Better might one be pushed off into the material spaces beyond the uttermost orbit of our sun, than once feel himself fairly afloat in himself.
~ Herman Melville
O Nature, and O soul of man! how far beyond all utterance are your linked analogies; not the smallest atom stirs or lives on matter, but has its cunning duplicate in mind.
~ Herman Melville
Man screams from the depths of his soul; the whole era becomes a single, piercing shriek. Art also screams, into the deep darkness, screams for help, screams for the spirit. This is Expressionism.
~ Hermann Bahr
The eye is the window of the soul; even an animal looks for a man's intentions right into his eyes.
~ Hiram Powers
That alone can be called true refinement which elevates the soul of man, purifying the manners by improving the intellect.
~ Hosea Ballou
[Richard M. Nixon was] a foul caricature of himself, a man with no soul, no inner convictions, with the integrity of a hyena and the style of a poison toad.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
For the man who thought he was Man there is no salvation.
~ Italo Calvino
Great truths are portions of the soul of man; Great souls are portions of eternity.
~ James Russell Lowell
A shadowless man is a monster, a devil, a thing of evil. A man without a shadow is soulless. A shadow without a man is a pitiable shred. Yet together, light and dark, they make a whole.
~ Jane Yolen
But how right is it to kill a man for something that is in his soul?
~ Jessie Burton
Could a man's heart, his soul, perish and yet leave him walking and talking as if alive?
~ Jim Butcher
The soul of man is like to water; from Heaven it cometh, to Heaven it riseth And then returning to earth, forever alternating.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Men have conceived a twofold use of sleep; it is a refreshing of the body in this life, and a preparing of the soul for the next.
~ John Donne
That subtle knot which makes us man So must pure lovers souls descend T affections, and to faculties, Which sense may reach and apprehend, Else a great Prince in prison lies.
~ John Donne
Let man's soul be a sphere, and then, in this, The intelligence that moves, devotion is.
~ John Donne
The spirit of man, which God inspired, cannot together perish with this corporeal clod.
~ John Milton