Best Soul Man Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Prayer is beyond any question the highest activity of the human soul. Man is at his greatest and highest when upon his knees he comes face to face with God.”

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Author:Martyn

“Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.”

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Author:Saint Augustine

“Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.”

“I have increasingly become conversant with Pythagoras' and Goethe's idea of a primordial music, not perceptible to the sensuous ear, but sounding and soaring throughout the cosmos. Tracing it to such exalted origins, I begin to understand more deeply the essence of our art and its elemental power over the human soul. Man, being a creature of Nature and subject to the cosmic influences that inform all earthly beings, must needs have been under the sway of that music from his earliest days; his organism reverberated with its vibrations and received it's rhythmic impulses.”

“Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.”

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Author:Mahalia Jackson

“All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised.”

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Author:Oscar Wilde

“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.”

Source: Aphorisms

“Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.”

Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays

“There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.”

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Book:Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis

Source: Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis

“Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.”

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Author:Oscar Wilde

“The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it.”

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Book:The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde

Source: The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde

“It is God's earth out of which man is taken. From it he has his body. His body belongs to his essential being. Man's body is not his prison, his shell his exterior, but man himself. Man does not "have" a body; he does not "have" a soul; rather he "is" body and soul. Man in the beginning is really his body. He is one. He is his body, as Christ is completely his body, as the Church is the body of Christ”

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Book:The martyred Christian: 160 readings from Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Source: The martyred Christian: 160 readings from Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.”

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Author:Oscar Wilde

“The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace.”

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Book:The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays

Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays

“Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written.”

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Book:The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis,

Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis,

“Thank God our time is now when wrong comes up to meet us everywhere never to leave us till we take, the greatest stride of the soul man ever took. affairs are now soul size the enterprise is exploration unto God. Where are you making for? It takes so many thousand years to wake. But will you wake for pity's sake?”

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Author:Christopher Fry

“The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.”

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Book:The Republic

Source: The Republic

“A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.”

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Author:Oscar Wilde

“I pay homage and respect to Bobby Womack [for Black History Month] knowing that he passed last year... Him being one of those artists that I have really sampled so much and just been so inspired by... You know, he is the original ‘soul man.’”

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Author:Big K.R.I.T.

“The worst slave owners were those who were kind to their slaves”

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Book:The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde

Source: The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde

“[T]he recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses. It has led Individualism entirely astray. It has made gain, not growth its aim. So that man thought that the important thing is to have, and did not know that the important thing is to be.”

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Book:The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde

Source: The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde

“There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the Pope. The third is called the People.”

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Book:The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde

Source: The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde