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“Aren't you ashamed to be concerned so much about making all the money you can and advancing your reputation and prestige, while for truth and wisdom and the improvement of your souls you have no thought or car?”

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Socrates, a renowned Greek philosopher, lived from 471 BC to 399 BC. He is known for his unique teaching method, the Socratic method, which emphasizes self-discovery through questioning. Socrates' philosophical ideas have had a profound impact on subsequent philosophy, and he is considered one of the founders of Western philosophy. more

“Madonna Kolbenschlag suggest that if an awakened woman forgoes innocence and denial, if she refuses to make compromises with herself and defect to patriarchy, then her only option becomes deviance. I chose deviance. I chose to be a loving dissident. To dance the dance of dissidence. This stance can be assumed from the inside or the outside. Whichever place we choose, the important thing is having the sustained will to be, act, and speak from the ground of our feminine souls.”

Ifs Important Soul Speak Important Things Refuse Compromise Innocence Denial Feminine Patriarchy Defects Awakened Stance Dissidents Deviance

Author:Sue Monk Kidd

“I sought them far and found them, The sure, the straight, the brave, The hearts I lost my own to, The souls I could not save They braced their belts about them, They crossed in ships the sea, They sought and found six feet of ground, And there they died for me.”

Heart Soul Found Lost My Own Sea Feet Six Died Brave Ships Belts

Book:Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)

“I thought... their elegance... lies not so much in their clothes as in their bodies, and their bodies have received it, and continue to unceasingly receive it, from their souls, which are just like yours, lovely Simonetta.”

Soul Body Lying Like You Clothes Lovely Elegance

Author:Alexander Theroux

“She was drawn to damaged souls like a moth to a flame.”

Soul Flames Moths

Author:Anna McPartlin

“So it follows that those who have reason have freedom to will or not to will, although this freedom is not equal in all of them. [...] human souls are more free when they persevere in the contemplation of the mind of God, less free when they descend to the corporeal, and even less free when they are entirely imprisoned in earthly flesh and blood.”

Mind Humans Soul Reason Blood Equal Flesh Contemplation Human Soul Persevere Flesh And Blood

Book:The Consolation of Philosophy

Source: The Consolation of Philosophy

“For I cannot think that GOD Almighty ever made them [women] so delicate, so glorious creatures; and furnished them with such charms, so agreeable and so delightful to mankind; with souls capable of the same accomplishments with men: and all, to be only Stewards of our Houses, Cooks, and Slaves.”

Thinking Men Made Soul House Mankind Creatures Capable Slave Cooks Accomplishment Glorious Charm Delicate Almighty Delightful Stewards

Book:DANIEL DEFOE Ultimate Collection: 50+ Adventure Classics, Pirate Tales & Historical Novels - Including Biographies, Historical Works, Travel Sketches, Poems & Essays (Illustrated): Robinson Crusoe, The History of the Pirates, Captain Singleton, Memoirs of a Cavalier, A Journal of the Plague Year, Moll Flanders, Roxana, The History of the Devil, The King of Pirates and many more

Source: DANIEL DEFOE Ultimate Collection: 50+ Adventure Classics, Pirate Tales & Historical Novels - Including Biographies, Historical Works, Travel Sketches, Poems & Essays (Illustrated): Robinson Crusoe, The History of the Pirates, Captain Singleton, Memoirs of a Cavalier, A Journal of the Plague Year, Moll Flanders, Roxana, The History of the Devil, The King of Pirates and many more

“Two people see each across a room or their skin brushes. Their souls recognize the person as their own. It doesn't need time to figure it. The soul always knows... whether it's right or wrong.”

People Knows Needs Persons Two Soul Rooms Figures Skins Brushes Time Of Need

Author:J. Lynn

“Something ... made him feel small, not in the way of orphans or beggars or children, but in a good way. In the way of souls.”

Way Feels Children Made Soul Beggar Good Way Orphan

Book:The Thousandfold Thought: The Prince of Nothing, Book Three (The Prince of Nothing)

Source: The Thousandfold Thought: The Prince of Nothing, Book Three (The Prince of Nothing)

“Those partial to drink were hiding faults and dishonesty. They were sloppy souls, even the ones with pleasant manners and fine noses.”

Soul Fine Drink Faults Manners Noses Pleasant Hiding Dishonesty Sloppy

Book:The Electric Michelangelo

Source: The Electric Michelangelo

“As we have said, robust souls are sometimes almost, but not entirely, overthrown by strokes of misfortune....Despair has steps leading upward. From total depression we rise to despondency, from despondency to affliction, from affliction to melancholy. Melancholy is a twilight state in which suffering transmutes into a somber joy....Melancholy is the enjoyment of being sad.”