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Quotes About Soul

A man that is well ordered in his soul needeth little the unkind demeanor of worldly people nor yet their proud behavior.
~ Thomas a Kempis
My faith is that the only soul a man must save is his own.
~ William O. Douglas
Each man's soul is his genius.
~ Xenocrates
The proper study of Mankind is Man.
~ Alexander Pope
But what is happiness? If we consider what the function of man is, we find that happiness is a virtuous activity of the soul.
~ Aristotle
He who does not believe has no soul. He is empty. He has no ideals. He has nothing to live for. He has no sunshine, no light. No joy in life. He is a poor, poor man.
~ Robert Ley
The poet's business is not to save the soul of man but to make it worth saving.
~ James Elroy Flecker
I have no desire to make windows into men's souls.
~ Elizabeth I
Only friendliness produces friendship. And we must look far deeper into the soul of man for the thing that produces friendliness.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
~ Martha Graham
Hope encourages men to endure and attempt everything; in depriving them of it, or in making it too distant, you deprive them of their very soul.
~ Maurice de Saxe
Tereza knew what happens during the moment love is born: the woman cannot resist the voice calling forth her terrified soul; the man cannot resist the woman whose soul thus responds to his voice.
~ Milan Kundera
A religion such as Judaism or Catholicism might survive even if it comes to reject a literal account of God creating man and animals. But it cannot survive the rejection of an immaterial soul.
~ Paul Bloom
For pleasure is a state of soul, and to each man that which he is said to be a lover of is pleasant.
~ Aristotle
No game designed to be played with the aid of personal servants by right-handed men who can't even bring along their dogs can be entirely good for the soul.
~ Bruce McCall
Man does not have a soul. He is a soul. He has a body.
~ C. S. Lewis
He who understand my music will remain free from the miseries that the other men are dragging with them .
~ Ludwig van Beethoven
The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Man is of soul and body, formed for deeds Of high resolve; on fancy's boldest wing.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
The sacraments infuse holiness into the terrain of man's humanity: they penetrate the soul and body, the femininity and masculinity of the personal subject, with the power of holiness.
~ Pope John Paul II
Music is the poor man's Parnassus.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tear man out of his outward circumstances; and what he then is; that only is he.
~ Johann Gottfried Seume
He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God.
~ John Donne
The heart of man is restless until he finds rest in Thee.
~ Saint Augustine