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“A nervous excitability, a chronic exaltation of the passion, in which commingle the inferior life of the individual and its exterior manifestations, a state in which sentiment, idea, and will are confounded together, where for the lack of the powerful corrective of logic, the flights of imagination know no bounds, where life and human activity are deprived of a regulator, and move outside of material and concrete factors, by the sole interior force of the soul.”

“The castle-building habit, the day-dreaming habit - how it grows! what a luxury it becomes; how we fly to its enchantments at every idle moment, how we revel in them, steep our souls in them, intoxicate ourselves with their beguiling fantasies - oh, yes, and how soon and how easily our dream-life and our material life become so intermingled and so fused together that we can't quite tell which is which, anymore.”

Soul Moments Dream Together Grows Fantasy Building Materials Habit Luxury Idle Our Dreams Castles Enchantment Steep

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)

“What greater weakness can there be than not to know what is the source of one's being, of one's life, of one's senses, of one's knowledge, and what is to be their end? What can be more deeply disheartening than to wonder whether one's soul is, perhaps, a material thing, like a stone or a reptile, corruptible like these base creatures? Is there not more strength and greatness of mind in admitting the idea of a being superior to all other beings, who has made them all and to whom all owe their existence; of a being supremely perfect, who is pure, who had no beginning and can have no ending, of whom our soul is the image and, so to speak, a portion, being a spiritual and immortal thing?”

“We are talking about an artist; and for the enjoyment of the artist the mask must be to some extent moulded on the face. What he makes outside him must correspond to something inside him; he can only make his effects out of some of the materials of his soul.”

Art Soul Faces Artist Effects Materials Enjoyment Mask

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Humility consists of knowing that in this world the whole soul, not only what we term the ego in its totality, but also the supernatural part of the soul, which is God present in it, is subject to time and to the vicissitudes of change. There must be absolutely acceptance of the possibility that everything material in us should be destroyed. But we must simultaneously accept and repudiate the possibility that the supernatural part of the soul should disappear.”

World Should Soul Whole Term Accepting Knowing Subjects Possibility This World Acceptance Humility Materials Ego Disappear Destroyed Totality Vicissitudes

Author:Simone Weil

“Poor people can be greedy, too. It's just that they don't have any material resources. We need shaping of the souls as well as shaping of our institutions.”

People Needs Wells Soul Poor Materials Resources Institutions Greedy Poor People

Author:Cornel West

“The kernel, the soul let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances is plagiarism. For substantially all ideas are second-hand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources, and daily used by the garnerer with a pride and satisfaction born of the superstition that he originated them; whereas there is not a rag of originality about them anywhere except the little discoloration they get from his mental and moral calibre and his temperament, and which is revealed in characteristics of phrasing.”

Source: Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)

“God, the supreme being, is neither circumscribed by space, nor touched by time; he cannot be found in a particular direction, and his essence cannot change. The secret conversation is thus entirely spiritual; it is a direct encounter between God and the soul, abstracted from all material constraints.”

Soul Spiritual Found Space Secret Particular Materials Conversation Direct Essence Supreme Encounters Touched Constraints Supreme Being

Author:Avicenna

“The love for material things grows like a fungus in the soul and destroys the loveliness of the human heart utterly.”

Humans Heart Soul Grows Materials Greed Human Heart Loveliness Material Things Fungi

Author:Caryll Houselander

“In ourselves, rather than in material nature, lie the true source and life of the beautiful. The human soul is the sun which diffuses light on every side, investing creation with its lovely hues, and calling forth the poetic element that lies hidden in every existing thing.”

Humans Soul Light Beautiful Lying Sides Beauty Sun Creation Materials Source Calling Elements Investing Lovely Poetic Human Soul Hue

Author:Giuseppe Mazzini

“The statements of atheists ought to be perfectly clear of doubt. Now it is not perfectly clear that the soul is material.”

Soul Clear Doubt Atheism Materials Ought Atheist Statements Not Perfect

Book:Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects

Source: Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects

“There is a certain period of the soul-culture when it begins to interfere with some of characters of typical beauty belonging to the bodily frame, the stirring of the intellect wearing down the flesh, and the moral enthusiasm burning its way out to heaven, through the emaciation of the earthen vessel; and there is, in this indication of subduing the mortal by the immortal part, an ideal glory of perhaps a purer and higher range than that of the more perfect material form. We conceive, I think, more nobly of the weak presence of Paul than of, the fair and ruddy countenance of David.”