Human Soul Quotes - Page 2

• The human body is the best picture of the human soul.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Fitness, Communication, Philosophical

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2010). “Philosophical Investigations”, p.131, John Wiley & Sons

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• If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Laughter, Men, Talking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Book, Essence, Soul

  Speech in support of the London Library, 24 June 1840, in F. Harrison 'Carlyle and the London Library' (1907) p. 66

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• The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power! We reach forth and strain every nerve, but we seize only a bit of the curtain that hides the infinite from us.

  Maria Mitchell

  Soul, Nerves, World

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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• If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man ... just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Laughter, Men, Laughing

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• Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Essence, Soul, Noble

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• The human soul is like a bird that is born in a cage. Nothing can deprive it of its natural longings, or obliterate the mysterious remembrance of its heritage.

  Epes Sargent

  Bird, Remembrance, Soul

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 558, 1895.

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• The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power!

  Maria Mitchell

  Soul, World, Broads

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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• Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Soul, Changing Your Life, Unnoticed

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• Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Achievement, Soul, Endurance

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• The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Self, Soul

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group

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• To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

  Simone Weil

  Soul, Important, Needs

  Simone Weil (2003). “The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind”, p.43, Routledge

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• really important meetings are planned by the souls long before the bodies see each other.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jul 11, 2014

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• The soul never thinks without a picture.

  Aristotle

  Spiritual, Thinking, Soul

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• God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.

  Chanakya

  God, Idols, Soul

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• Prayer can solve more problems, alleviate more suffering, prevent more transgression, and bring about greater peace and contentment in the human soul than can be obtained in any other way.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Prayer, Soul, Suffering

  Thomas S. Monson (1988). “Live the Good Life”, Shadow Mountain

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• Human knowledge consists not only of libraries of parchment and ink - it is also comprised of the volumes of knowledge that are written on the human heart, chiselled on the human soul, and engraved on the human psyche.

  Michael Jackson

  Heart, Soul, Library

  FaceBook post by Michael Jackson from Sep 02, 2014

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• So what if man's body evolved from the monkeys? Whether he came from monkeys or fish is unimportant. The important idea is that when the body became "human" enough, the first human soul slipped into it.

  Garth Stein

  Men, Ideas, Soul

  Garth Stein (2009). “The Art of Racing in the Rain: A Novel”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• To course across more kindly waters now my talent's little vessel lifts her sails, leaving behind herself a sea so cruel; and what I sing will be that second kingdom, in which the human soul is cleansed of sin, becoming worthy of ascent to Heaven.

  Dante Alighieri

  Sea, Water, Heaven

  Dante Alighieri (1982). “Purgatorio: Introduction, Italian test & translation, and thirty-four drawings”, p.2, Univ of California Press

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• Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message from the dead - from human souls we never saw, who lived, perhaps, thousands of miles away. And yet these, in those little sheets of paper, speak to us, arouse us, terrify us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers.

  Charles Kingsley

  Motivational, Brother, Book

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• God knows that a mother needs fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the human soul. But because I happen to be a parent of almost fiercely maternal nature, I praise casualness. It seems to me the rarest of virtues. It is useful enough when children are small. It is useful to the point of necessity when they are adolescents.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Mother, Children, Women

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• The human soul is on its journey from the law to love, from discipline to liberation, from the moral plane to the spiritual.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Spiritual, Journey, Law

  Rabindranath Tagore (2006). “Sadhana”, p.88, 1st World Publishing

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• We have so exalted a notion of the human soul that we cannot bear to be despised, or even not to be esteemed by it. Man, in fact, places all his happiness in this esteem.

  Blaise Pascal

  Respect, Men, Soul

  Blaise Pascal (1828). “Thoughts on religion, and other subjects”, p.95

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• Heroism is latent in every human soul - However humble or unknown, they (the veterans) have renounced what are accounted pleasures and cheerfully undertaken all the self-denials - privations, toils, dangers, sufferings, sicknesses, mutilations, life-long hurts and losses, death itself - for some great good, dimly seen but dearly held.

  Joshua Chamberlain

  Memorial Day, Courage, Hurt

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