Human Soul Quotes - Page 7

• The human soul finds its saddest imprisonment when it is helpless in the presence of cruelty, when it cannot right a wrong. It finds its highest freedom when it can secure justice to others.

  Jenkin Lloyd Jones

  Justice, Soul, Cruelty

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• My feeling is, personally, I want to die first... because I believe that when you die, your soul goes immediately up for judgment - and I don't want my wife up there first. No, the judgment will be horrendous.

  Bill Cosby

  Believe, Wife, Feelings

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• A man really and practically looking onwards to an immortal life, on whatever grounds, exhibits to us the human soul in an enobled attitude.

  William Whewell

  Attitude, Men, Soul

  "Platonic Dialogues for English Readers, Vol. 1". Book by William Whewell, "Remarks on the Phaedo", pp. 441-2, 1859.

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• The human soul develops up to the time of death.

  Hippocrates

  Soul, Humans

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• Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country. Why did we look up for blessing -- instead of around, and down? What hope we have lies there. Not in the sky full of orbiting spy-eyes and weaponry, but in the earth we have looked down upon. Not from above, but from below. Not in the light that blinds, but in the dark that nourishes, where human beings grow human souls.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Country, Lying, Eye

  A Left-Handed Commencement Address, delivered 22 May 1983, Mills College, Oakland, California

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• The human soul is very much older than the human mind.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Soul, Mind, Spirituality

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• The ground of all religion, that which makes it possible, is the relation in which the human soul stands to God.

  John Campbell Shairp

  Soul, Religion, Relation

  John Campbell Shairp (1871). “Culture and Religion in Some of Their Relations”, p.30

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• The art of writing is to explain the complications of the human soul with the simplicity that can be universally understood.

  Alan Sillitoe

  Art, Writing, Simplicity

  Alan Sillitoe (1988). “The far side of the street: fifteen short stories”

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• Tradition and conscience are the two wings given to the human soul to reach the truth.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Truth, Wings, Two

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• God does not measure everything by numbers or dimensions. He has another scale of values, according to which-asJesus Himself told us-one human soul is worth more than the entire universe.

  Derek Prince

  Numbers, Soul, Doe

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• In ourselves, rather than in material nature, lie the true source and life of the beautiful. The human soul is the sun which diffuses light on every side, investing creation with its lovely hues, and calling forth the poetic element that lies hidden in every existing thing.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Beauty, Beautiful, Lying

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• Joy, feeling one’s own value, being appreciated and loved by others, feeling useful and capable of production are all factors of enormous value for the human soul.

  Maria Montessori

  Joy, Soul, Feelings

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• In the darkest hour through which a human soul can pass, whatever else is doubtful, this at least is certain. If there be no God and no future state, yet even then it is better to be generous than selfish, better to be chaste than licentious, better to be true than false, better to be brave than to be a coward.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Selfish, Brave, Soul

  Frederick William Robertson (1850). “An address delivered to the members of the Working Man's Institute, at the Town Hall, Brighton, on Thursday, April 18, 1850, on the question of the introduction of sceptical publications into the library”, p.13

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• Just as the plurality of the human soul's life of imagination, feeling, and will has a focus, a center, around which it orders and orientates itself, so also does the multiplicity of the appearances of the world have ONE center, which orders and holds everything together.

  Valentin Tomberg

  Order, Imagination, Focus

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• ... the human soul, beaten down, overwhelmed, faced by complete failure and ruin, can still rise up against unbearable odds and triumph.

  Harold Russell

  Odds, Soul, Triumph

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• The foundation of friendship demands the greatest likeness of human souls and hearts.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Heart, Soul, Foundation

  Ludwig Van Beethoven (2004). “Beethoven: The Man and the Artist”, p.103, 1st World Publishing

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• The soul was never put in the body to stand still.

  John Webster

  Soul, Body, Stills

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• The inner throne of man is both what the kingdom of Christ and the kingdom of Lucifer are after. And when this throne is yielded to the Almighty God, a man enters upon the sacred path of greatness right then and there...The destiny of a human soul depends entirely on who sits upon the throne of that soul...when the flesh is removed from its position of power, the human soul is made ready to usher in the glory of its true and rightful King

  Eric Ludy

  Kings, Greatness, Destiny

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• Pulling out his daggers, he kept them in his sleeves, just in case he happened upon someone who wouldn’t understand why a tall, dark-haired man wearing really dark sunglasses and unseasonably warm clothing would be armed to his fangs. Really, Officer, I was trying to protect humanity by killing these things that suck human souls out to live past their twenty-seventh birthday just didn’t cut it. Why no one would believe that, he couldn’t imagine. Really, the audacity of modern courts and judges.’ – Sundown

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Believe, Cutting, Dark

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “Retribution”, p.29, Hachette UK

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• Plants grow most in the darkest hours preceding dawn; so do human souls. Nature always pays for a brave fight. Sometimes she pays in strengthened moral muscle, sometimes in deepened spiritual insight, sometimes in a broadening, mellowing, sweetening of the fibres of character,—but she always pays.

  William George Jordan

  Spiritual, Character, Fighting

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• I'm going to tell you the most important secret of human life. The most critical need of the human soul is to be kind.

  David O. McKay

  Soul, Secret, Important

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• Hope is the deep orientation of the human soul that can be held at the darkest times.

  Vaclav Havel

  Soul, Humans, Darkest Times

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• Everything established, settled, everything to do with home and order and the common ground, has crumbled into dust and has been swept away in the general upheaval and reorganization of the whole of society. The whole human way of life has been destroyed and ruined. All that's left is the bare, shivering human soul, stripped to the last shred, the naked force of the human psyche for which nothing has changed because it was always cold and shivering and reaching out to its nearest neighbor, as cold and lonely as itself.

  Boris Pasternak

  Lonely, Home, Dust

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• There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other. Every serious and reflective person realizes, I think, that the religious element in his nature must be recognized and cultivated if all the powers of the human soul are to act together in perfect balance and harmony. And indeed it was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls

  Max Planck

  Religious, Real, Thinking

  Max Planck (1959). “The new science: 3 complete works: Where is science going? The universe in the light of modern physics; The philosophy of physics”

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• Every human soul has seen, perhaps before their birth, pure forms such as justice, temperance, beauty and all the great moral qualities which we hold in honour. We are moved towards what is good by the faint memory of these forms, simple and calm and blessed, which we saw once in a pure, clear light, being pure ourselves.

  Iris Murdoch

  Memories, Blessed, Simple

  "Fictional character: Iris Murdoch". "Iris", www.imdb.com. 2001.

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