Human Soul Quotes - Page 4

• Water is the grand epic of creation; and there is not a human soul but feels the influence of its majesty, its power, or its beauty.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Epic, Water, Soul

  Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1835). “Traits of American Life”, p.195

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• Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of his own psyche. This is the World Power that vastly exceeds all other powers on earth. The Age of Enlightenment, which stripped nature and human institutions of gods, overlooked the God of Terror who dwells in the human soul.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Earthquakes, Soul

  Carl Gustav Jung (1968). “The collected works”

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• Never can a new idea move within the law. It matters not whether that idea pertains to political and social changes or to any other domain of human thought and expression - to science, literature, music; in fact, everything that makes for freedom and joy and beauty must refuse to move within the law. How can it be otherwise? The law is stationary, fixed, mechanical, 'a chariot wheel' which grinds all alike without regard to time, place and condition, without ever taking into account cause and effect, without ever going into the complexity of the human soul.

  Emma Goldman

  Moving, Expression, Law

  Address to the Jury, delivered 9 July 1917, New York

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• Everything that we perceive around us is struggling towards freedom, from the atom to the man, from the insentient, lifeless particle of matter to the highest existence on earth, the human soul. The whole universe is in fact the result of this struggle for freedom.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Struggle, Men, Soul

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action”, p.64, Advaita Ashrama

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• I saw deep in the eyes of the animals the human soul look out upon me. I saw where it was born deep down under feathers and fur, or condemned for a while to roam four-footed among the brambles,I caught the clinging mute glance of the prisoner and swore that I would be faithful.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Eye, Animal, Soul

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• The diamond which shines in the Saviour's crown shall burn in unquenched beauty at last on the forehead of every human soul.

  Theodore Parker

  Shining, Soul, Crowns

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• I consider an human soul without education like marble in the quarry, which shows none of its inherent beauties till the skill of the polisher fetches out the colours, makes the surface shine, and discovers every ornamental cloud, spot and vein that runs through the body of it.

  Joseph Addison

  Education, Running, Clouds

  Joseph Addison (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Joseph Addison (Illustrated)”, p.3178, Delphi Classics

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• It is the trained, living human soul, cultivated and strengthened by long study and thought, that breathes the real breath of life into boys and girls and makes them human, whether they be black or white, Greek, Russian or American.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Girl, Real, Boys

  W.E.B. Du Bois, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “W. E. B. Du Bois: Selections from His Writings”, p.53, Courier Corporation

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• The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.

  Dallas Willard

  Soul, Kingdoms, Ecology

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• Knowledge is power-and power of one sort or another is the secret lust of human souls; and here is, beside the sense of exploration, the undefinable interest of a story, and above all, something forbidden, to stimulate the contumacious appetite.

  Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

  Soul, Lust, Secret

  Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (2016). “Uncle Silas: Horror Collections”, p.15, 谷月社

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• Things. Cosas. Things attach themselves like leeches to the human soul, then they bleed out the sweetness and the music and the primordial joy of being unencumbered upon the land.

  Tom Robbins

  Land, Joy, Soul

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates”, p.22, Bantam

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• If you want to destroy something in this life, be it an acne, a blemish or the human soul, all you need to do is to surround it with thick walls. It will dry up inside.

  Elif Safak

  Wall, Motivation, Inspiration

  "The politics of fiction". TED conference, www.ted.com. July 2010.

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• ... there must be reserves -- except with God. The human soul is solitary. But for confession that is different; justice and reparation sometimes demand it; but, again, justice and courage sometimes forbid it.

  Margaret Deland

  Justice, Soul, Different

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• Of all the creatures that man kills for his amusement there is only one that he kills out of hatred—other men. Man hates nothing as much as himself. That is why war is called the leprosy of the human soul.

  Halldór Laxness

  Hate, War, Men

  Halldór Laxness (2005). “Under the Glacier”, Vintage Books

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• Not all human souls but only the pious ones are divine.

  Georg Hermes

  Soul, Divine, Humans

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• There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to exist for many centuries and are still in being though they have had no help from the traveler in solving their problems.

  Walter Lippmann

  Travel, Discovery, Soul

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• The Glory of God, and, as our only means of glorifying Him, the salvation of human souls, is the real business of life.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, Mean, Soul

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.128, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Finally, if life happened by chance on this earth and evolved upward, then it could seemingly happen elsewhere in the universe. But if, as we believe, human life resulted from a purposeful act of God, and if sin is inevitable for such beings, and if the human soul is the prize for which Satan and God do battle, then it hardly makes sense to have this same process repeated on countless other planets throughout the cosmos.

  Dave Hunt

  Believe, Soul, Battle

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• Writers are the engineers of human souls.

  Joseph Stalin

  Writing, Soul, Humans

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• Empathic listening is so powerful because it gives you accurate data to work with. Instead of projecting your own autobiography and assuming thoughts, feelings, motives and interpretation, you're dealing with the reality inside another person's head and heart. You're listening to understand. You're focused on receiving the deep communication of another human soul.

  Stephen Covey

  Powerful, Communication, Heart

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.301, Mango Media Inc.

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• Whatever the world thinks, he who hath not much meditated upon God, the human soul, and the summum bonum, may possibly make a thriving earthworm, but will most indubitably make a sorry patriot and a sorry statesman.

  George Berkeley

  Sorry, Thinking, Soul

  George Berkeley, Arthur James Balfour Balfour (Earl of) (1897). “The works of George Berkeley, D.D., bishop of Cloyne”

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• Freemasonry is a science of symbols, in which, by their proper study, a search is instituted after truth, that truth consisting in the knowledge of the divine and human nature of God and the human Soul.

  Albert Mackey

  God, Truth, Knowledge

  Albert Gallatin Mackey (1867). “The Mystic Tie: Or, Facts and Opinions, Illustrative of the Character and Tendency of Freemasonry”, p.7

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• The schematicism by which our understanding deals with the phenomenal world ... is a skill so deeply hidden in the human soul that we shall hardly guess the secret trick that Nature here employs.

  Immanuel Kant

  Skills, Understanding, Soul

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• Yours is a race whose imagination is limited to its own small appetites. Greed, lust, envy - these are the motivating forces of humankind. What redeems you is that in every man and woman there is a seed that can grow to encompass love, joy and compassion. But this seed is never allowed to prosper in fertile ground. It struggles for life among the rocks of your human soul.

  David Gemmell

  Struggle, Men, Compassion

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• Art is the expression of those beauties and emotions that stir the human soul.

  Howard Pyle

  Art, Expression, Soul

  Howard Pyle, Howard P. Brokaw (1998). “History and Romance: Works by Howard Pyle from the Brokaw Family Collection : the Exhibition, April 4 Through May 17, 1998, Brandywine River Museum, Brandywine Conservancy, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania”

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