Quotes About Soul

D]oubt, the principle of theoretic freedom, appears to me a crime. … [T]he highest crime is doubt in God, or the doubt that God exists. … [T]hat which I do not trust myself to doubt, … without feeling disturbed in my soul, without incurring guilt; that is no matter of theory, but a matter of conscience[.]

T]he Christians abolished the distinction between soul and person, species and individual, and therefore placed immediately in self what belongs only to the totality of the species.

The doctrine of immortality is the final doctrine of religion; … it speaks out what it has hitherto suppressed. If elsewhere the religious soul concerns itself with the existence of another being, here it openly considers only its own existence[.]

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.

Music from my fourth year began to be the first of my youthful occupations. Thus early acquainted with the gracious muse who tuned my soul to pure harmonies, I became fond of her, and, as it often seemed to me, she of me.

Whoever has created An abiding friendship, Or has won A true and loving wife, All who can call at least one soul theirs, Join in our song of praise; But any who cannot must creep tearfully Away from our circle.

Dem Manne muß die Musik Feuer aus dem Geist schlagen.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

Socialism is the expression of the principle of violence crying from the workers' soul, just as Imperialism is the principle of violence speaking from the soul of the official and the soldier.

I know what loose ends can do to a soul. The sooner she knows the truth, whatever it is, the sooner she can get on with her future.

People do belong to each other. Once you make a sacrifice for someone, you own part of his or her soul.

The first person you fell in love with stole your heart. The first person you made love with stole your soul. And if these were one and the same, you were damned.

You ought to be attracted to someone for what they've got inside them, not for the package it's presented in.

He doesn't look people in the eye. He says that's how someone can steal your soul. Amen to that.

He doesn't look people in the eye. He says that's how someone can steal your soul.

Me, I like him because of one of Rocco's other things: he doesn't look people in the eye. He says that's how someone can steal your soul.

I exist," he said softly.

Perhaps he'd always known that the truth of a person lies in the heart.

This is true of anyone: the music we choose is a clear reflection of who we really are.

Over-confidence is the way to give your soul to the devil an inch at a time.

I don't want to push my chips forward and go out and meet something I don't understand. A man would have to put his soul at hazard. He'd have to say, 'Ok...I'll be part of this world'.

You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed, John Bunyan writes. Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge to Satan.24

Death breaks the union between the body and the soul but perfects the union between Christ and the soul.

his soul until he actually began to sweat blood.