Human Soul Quotes - Page 12

• Blind obedience is itself an abuse of human morality. It is a misuse of the human soul in the name of religious commitment. It is a sin against individual conscience. It makes moral children of the adults from whom moral agency is required. It makes a vow, which is meant to require religious figures to listen always to the law of God, beholden first to the laws of very human organizations in the person of very human authorities. It is a law that isn't even working in the military and can never substitute for personal morality.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Religious, Children, Military

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• When you believe you have found an important scientific fact, and are feverishly curious to publish it, constrain yourself for days, weeks, years sometimes, fight yourself, try and ruin your own experiments, and only proclaim your discovery after having exhausted all contrary hypotheses. But when, after so many efforts you have at last arrived at a certainty, your joy is one of the greatest which can be felt by a human soul.

  Louis Pasteur

  Believe, Fighting, Discovery

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• Without art; without paintings, books, sculpture and music, the human soul would be quite impenetrable, don't you think?

  Jonathan Hull

  Art, Book, Thinking

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• Organized religion has a part in the evolution of personal religion. It is the material upon which personal religion is grafted, but the process of grafting must be individual. Every human soul must, through thought, prayer, and study, cultivate his [sic] own religion to suit himself.

  Lily Montagu

  Prayer, Women, Soul

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• The philosophical I is not the human being, not the human body or the human soul with the psychological properties, but the metaphysical subject, the boundary (not a part) of the world.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophical, Self, Soul

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1961). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”

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• Chauvet Cave is rather like the awakening of the modern human soul or I would say the awakening of modern human culture. Because Neanderthal men who still rode the landscape parallel to the people who did these paintings didn't have culture. There's no evidence of culture, no symbolic depiction, no evidence of music, no evidence of sculptures, no evidence of religious beliefs.

  Werner Herzog

  Religious, Men, People

  "Cave of Forgotten Dreams (3D) - Werner Herzog interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• The intricacy and the inherent beautiful fragility of the human soul is such that it is uniquely damaged and only God knows how to heal it, and it's going to take time.

  William P. Young

  Beautiful, Soul, Fragility

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• I think good creative writing opens up space for people to come into. Let God reach out and touch the human soul. That's not my job. I get to be present and create as much space as I can ... That frees me up just to be creative in the way I want to be.

  William P. Young

  Letting Go, Jobs, Writing

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• The point I wish plainly to bring before you on this occasion is the individuality of each human soul--our Protestant idea, the right of individual conscience and judgment--our republican idea, individual citizenship. In discussing the rights of woman, we are to consider, first, what belongs to her as an individual, in a world of her own, the arbiter of her own destiny, an imaginary Robinson Crusoe with her woman Friday on a solitary island. Her rights under such circumstances are to use all her faculties for her own safety and happiness.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Friday, Destiny, Rights

  Speech before Senate Judiciary Committee, 18 Jan. 1892

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• This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity, since it has such a remembrance of the best, such a concern for the future, since it is enriched with so many arts, sciences, and discoveries, it is impossible but the being which contains all these must be immortal.

  Cato the Younger

  Art, Discovery, Remembrance

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• The impious soul, however, punishes itself by seeking a human body to enter into, for no other body can receive a human soul; it cannot enter the body of an animal devoid of reason. Divine law preserves the human soul from such infamy... The soul passeth from form to form; and the mansions of her pilgrimage are manifold. Thou puttest off thy bodies as raiment; and as vesture dost thou fold them up. Thou art from old, O Soul of Man; yea, thou art from everlasting.

  Georg Hermes

  Art, Animal, Men

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• Natural religion itself, seems to decay very much. Many will have human souls to be material: others make God himself a corporeal being.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Soul, Decay, Natural

  Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (2015). “Leibniz: Philosophical Essays”, p.320, Hackett Publishing

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• Every wolf's and lion's howl
  Raises from Hell a human soul.

  William Blake

  Soul, Lions, Hell

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.286, Pearson Education

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• All those who write either explicitly or by insinuation against the dignity, freedom, and immortality of the human soul, may so far forth be justly said to unhinge the principles of morality, and destroy the means of making men reasonably virtuous.

  George Berkeley

  Writing, Mean, Men

  George Berkeley (1871). “The applied philosophical works”, p.16

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• Rarest of all things on earth is the union in which both, by their contrasts, make harmonious their blending; each supplying the defects of the helpmate, and completing, by fusion, one strong human soul.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Strong, Soul, Fusion

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• After all, let a man take what pains he may to hush it down, a human soul is an awful, ghostly, unquiet possession for a bad man to have. Who knows the metes and bounds of it? Who knows all its awful perhapses,--those shudderings and tremblings, which it can no more live down than it can outlive its own eternity?

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Pain, Men, Soul

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.387, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• Our Lord might be described as the great Physician, Healer, Engineer, Chief Scout, Foreman, Builder, or the like - all showing his pre-eminence in the field concerned, and all pointing attention to his power to deal in the spiritual field with human souls as these mortal counterparts deal in their temporal pursuits.

  Bruce R. McConkie

  Spiritual, Technology, Soul

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• What elevates the human soul and empowers it to live in the fullness of its created purpose is not religious intimidation or new rules or an anxiety induced by spiritual scoldings. It is faith in the promise that the enjoyment sin brings is fleeting and futile, but at God's right hand, and in the presence of His radiant glory, are pleasures evermore (Ps. 16:11).

  Sam Storms

  Spiritual, Religious, Hands

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• The voodoo priest and all his powders were as nothing compared to espresso, cappuccino, and mocha, which are stronger than all the religions of the world combined, and perhaps stronger than the human soul itself.

  Mark Helprin

  Coffee, Espresso, Soul

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• Art, because it's so easy to do, and yet so difficult to do well, encourages humility in the human soul.

  Robert Genn

  Art, Humility, Pride

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• A blessed thing it is to have a friend; one human soul whom we can trust utterly; who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults; who will speak the honest truth to us, while the world flatters us to our face, and laughs at us behind our back; who will give us counsel and reproof in a day of prosperity and self-conceit; but who, again, will comfort and encourage us in days of difficulty and sorrow, when the world leaves us alone to fight our own battle as we can.

  Charles Kingsley

  Blessed, Fighting, Self

  Charles Kingsley (1881). “The Works of Charles Kingsley”

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• Bless you prison, bless you for being in my life. For there, lying upon the rotting prison straw, I came to realize that the object of life is not prosperity as we are made to believe, but the maturity of the human soul.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Lying, Believe, Maturity

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• I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human souls whom we should accept more kindly, and even appreciate more clearly, if we simply thought of them as people in a story.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Real, Character, People

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• In the face of brutality I was prudent. Before injustice I held my peace. I sacrificed the things in hand for the good of the hypothetical whole. I believed in the tongue instead of the fist. As an armor against oppression I taught patience and faith in the human soul. I know now how wrong I was. I have been a traitor to myself and to my people. All that is rot.

  Carson McCullers

  Fighting, Hands, People

  "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter".

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• Coercive power is the curse of the universe, coactive power, the enrichment and advancement of every human soul.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Soul, Advancement, Curse

  Mary Parker Follett, Pauline Graham (1996). “Mary Parker Follett--prophet of management: a celebration of writings from the 1920s”, Harvard Business Press

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