Clarence Darrow Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.

  Clarence Darrow

  Errors, Evil, Soul

  Clarence Darrow (1974). “A Persian pearl, and other essays”

• Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man. She will have nothing from him who will not give her all. She knows that his pretended love serves but to betray. But when once the fierce heat of her quenchless, lustrous eyes have burned into the victim's heart, he will know no other smile but hers.

  Clarence Darrow

  Jealous, Heart, Eye

  Clarence Darrow's funeral oration for John Peter Altgeld, March 14, 1902.

• If there is a soul, what is it, and where did it come from, and where does it go? Can anyone who is guided by his reason possibly imagine a soul independent of a body, or the place of its residence, or the character of it, or anything concerning it? If man is justified in any belief or disbelief on any subject, he is warranted in the disbelief in a soul. Not one scrap of evidence exists to prove any such impossible thing.

  Clarence Darrow

  Character, Independent, Men

  Clarence Darrow (1995). “Why I Am an Agnostic and Other Essays”

• When every event was a miracle, when there was no order or system or law, there was no occasion for studying any subject, or being interested in anything excepting a religion which took care of the soul. As man doubted the primitive conceptions about religion, and no longer accepted the literal, miraculous teachings of ancient books, he set himself to understand nature.

  Clarence Darrow

  Book, Teaching, Men

  "Why I Am an Agnostic: Including Expressions of Faith from a Protestant, a Catholic and a Jew". Book by Clarence Darrow, 1929.

• Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.

  Clarence Darrow

  Jealous, Men, Soul

  "Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom".

• Every thought of pity is like the balm of Gilead to our souls.

  Clarence Darrow

  Soul, Pity

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