“It's as if we were both digging into each other's soul to find a self that was put there before we were born.” Soul Book:Weymouth Sands Source: Weymouth Sands
“What they were aware of was the dumb, numb, cold, heavy downward drag of the vast undersea forces that are sub-human; chemical forces, that belong to that formless world of the half-created and the half-organic whereof bodies of lower dimensions than ours are composed and which has a mysterious weight that draws down, a pull, a tug, a centripetal gravitation, against which the soul within us struggles and upon the surface of which it swims, and over which, when the process of decomposition commences, it spreads its contemptuous wings.” Soul Book:A Glastonbury Romance Source: A Glastonbury Romance
“Who has not watched a mother stroke her child's cheek or kiss her child in a certain way and felt a nervous shudder at the possessive outrage done to a free solitary human soul?” WayHumansChildrenSoulDoneMotherCertainFeltFamilyKissingNervousCheeksSolitaryStrokesHuman SoulOutragePossessive Author:John Cowper Powys
“What is the importance of human lives? Is it their continuing alive for so many years like animals in a menagerie? The value of a man cannot be judged by the number of diseases from which he escapes. The value of a man is in his human qualities: in his character, in his conscience, in the nobility and magnanimity, of his soul. Torturing animals to prolong human life has separated science from the most important thing that life has produced - the human conscience.” MenYearsHumansImportantSoulCharacterLife IsValuesAnimalNumbersQualityAliveDiseaseConscienceImportanceImportant ThingsHuman LifeJudgedContinuingNobilityMagnanimityHuman QualitiesMenagerie Author:John Cowper Powys
