7,163 Quotes About Soul

  • Author Francois Mauriac
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    Doubt is nothing but a trivial agitation on the surface of the soul, while deep down there is a calm certainty.

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  • Author Gabriela Mistral
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    Speech is our second possession, after the soul-and perhaps we have no other possession in this world.

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  • Author Henry Martyn
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    My soul, alas, needs these uneasinesses in outward things, to be driven to take refuge in God.

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  • Author Herbert Marcuse
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    The soul contains few secrets and longings which cannot be sensibly discussed, analyzed, and polled. Solitude, the very condition which sustained the individual against and beyond his society, has become technically impossible. Logical and linguistic analysis demonstrate that the old metaphysical problems are illusory problems; the quest for the "meaning" of things can be reformulated as the quest for the meaning of words, and the established universe of discourse and behavior can provide perfectly adequate criteria for the answer.

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  • Author Iris Murdoch
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    The notion that one can liberate another soul from captivity is an illusion of the very young.

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  • Author Joaquin Miller
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    Fame lulls the fever of the soul, and makes Us feel that we have grasp'd an immortality.

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