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Quotes About Soul

No knowledge comes from outside; it is all inside. What we say a man "knows", should, in strict psychological language, be what he "discovers" or "unveils"; what a man "learns" is really what he "discovers", by taking the cover off his own soul, which is a mine of infinite knowledge.
~ Vivekananda
Vodka after tea keeps the soul frost-free!
~ Vladimir Sorokin
Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes in the twinkling of an eye, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delights of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed. I shall love you until I die.
~ Voltaire
Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.
~ Voltaire
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
~ Voltaire
What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.
~ Voltaire
When all is said and done, how do we not know but that our own unreason may be better than another's truth? for it has been warmed on our hearths and in our souls, and is ready for the wild bees of truth to hive in it, and make their sweet honey. Come into the world again, wild bees, wild bees!
~ Unknown
The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
~ W. B. Yeats
How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true, But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face;" ? W. B. Yeats
~ W. B. Yeats
Se necesita más coraje para escudriñar los rincones oscuros de tu propia alma que para luchar en un campo de batalla.
~ W. B. Yeats
Envìo tu alma a la Tribu de las Estrellas.
~ Unknown
God is immanent and all-pervading This is not too surprising when we remember that the Gurus were mystics and that the vision of such people is one that finds the presence of God in every experience and object. They also shared with many Hindus the belief that the atman, or jot (divine spark) or individual soul, is one with the Primal Soul, Brahman, though Sikhs tend not to use this particular term.
~ Unknown
Impropriety is the soul of wit.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
Before us lies eternity; our souls Are love, and a continual farewell.
~ W.B. Yeats
An aged man is but a paltry thing, A tattered coat upon a stick, unless Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing For every tatter in its mortal dress
~ W.B. Yeats
Jonathan Swift made a soul for the gentlemen of this city by hating his neighbor as himself.
~ W.B. Yeats
I gave what other women gave That stepped out of their clothes, But when this soul, its body off, Naked to naked goes, He it has found shall find therein What none other knows, And give his own and take his own And rule in his own right; And though it loved in misery Close and cling so tight, There's not a bird of day that dare Extinguish that delight.
~ W.B. Yeats
Labour is blossoming or dancing where The body is not bruised to pleasure soul.
~ W.B. Yeats
We cannot doubt that barbaric people receive such influences more visibly and obviously, and in all likelihood more easily and fully than we do, for our life in cities, which deafens or kills the passive meditative life, and our education that enlarges the separated, self-moving mind, have made our souls less sensitive.
~ W.B. Yeats
O hiding hair and dewy eyes, I am no more with life and death, My heart upon his warm heart lies, My breath is mixed into his breath.
~ W.B. Yeats
What hurts the soul My soul adores
~ W.B. Yeats
the soul cannot live without sorrow.
~ W.B. Yeats