“I realized the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties riven asunder. The lesson was so indelibly burnt into me that a large part of my time during the twenty years of my practice as a lawyer was occupied in bringing about private compromises of hundreds of cases. I lost nothing thereby -- not even money, certainly not my soul.” YearsSoulLostPartyPracticeCasesLessonsFunctionTwentiesLawyerI RealizedCompromiseMy SoulMy Time Book:The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas Source: The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas
“There are dons who care for the intellect and the imagination, and there are priests who care for the spirit; but broadly speaking the function of universities and churches alike is to trim and tame enthusiasm, to suppress curiosity, and, in short, to whittle immortal souls into serviceable props of the established order.” SoulCareSpiritOrderImaginationChurchFunctionCuriosityUniversityIntellectEnthusiasmImmortalPriestsWho CaresPropsImmortal Soul Book:The progress of a biographer Source: The progress of a biographer
“The name of happiness is but a wider termfor the unalloy'd conditions of the Pleasur of Life,attendant on all function, and not to be deny'dto th' soul, unless forsooth in our thought of naturespiritual is by definition unnatural.” SoulNamesConditionsFunctionDefinitionsDenyOur ThoughtsUnnatural Author:Robert Bridges
“Get scared. It will do you good. Smoke a bit, stare blankly at some ceilings, beat your head against some walls, refuse to see some people, paint and write. Get scared some more. Allow your little mind to do nothing but function. Stay inside, go out - I don't care what you'll do; but stay scared as hell. You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.” PeopleWritingMindLittlesSoulCareAbleBitsJusticeHellWallPleaseBeatsFunctionPaintScaredRefuseDon't CareSmokeYour SoulI Don't CareStaringCeilingsLittle MindsExperience Yourself Author:Albert Camus
“Good science and good art are always about a condition of awe. I don't think there is any other function for the poet or the scientist in the human tribe but the astonishment of the soul.” ThinkingHumansArtSoulConditionsPoetScientistFunctionAweTribesGood ArtAstonishmentGood Science Author:Derek Walcott
“A good soul like a good body should be as unobtrusive as possible; in so far as it functions properly, it should not be noticed for good or for ill.” ShouldSoulBodyFunctionIllGood Souls Author:C. E. M. Joad