“The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power! We reach forth and strain every nerve, but we seize only a bit of the curtain that hides the infinite from us.” WorldHumansSoulBitsLogicInfiniteCertaintyUncertaintyReasoningNervesBroadsStrainCurtainsHuman SoulOntology Book:Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals Source: Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals
“Sex is the ... tremulous and bewildering and nerve-racking and delicious and myriad-adjectived soul-condition ... generally known as love. Ninety-nine point nine repeater percent of the world's literature has been devoted to its analysis. It's therefore of some importance.” WorldHas BeensSoulLiteratureSexKnownConditionsPercentImportanceNineAnalysisNervesDevotedDeliciousNinetyNinety Nine Author:William John Locke
“It is at once by way of poetry and through poetry, as with music, that the soul glimpses splendors from beyond the tomb; and when an exquisite poem brings one's eyes to the point of tears, those tears are not evidence of an excess of joy, they are witness far more to an exacerbated melancholy, a disposition of the nerves, a nature exiled among imperfect things, which would like to possess, without delay, a paradise revealed on this very same earth.” WaySoulEyeEarthJoyPoetryTearsEvidenceWitnessParadiseMelancholyNervesExcessImperfectDispositionDelayGlimpseExquisiteTombsSplendorImperfect Things Author:Charles Baudelaire
“To organize work in such a manner that it becomes meaningless, boring, stultifying, or nerve-racking for the worker would be little short of criminal; it would indicate a greater concern with goods than with people, an evil lack of compassion and a soul-destroying degree of attachment to the most primitive side of this worldly existence.” PeopleLittlesSoulWould BeEvilSidesExistenceCompassionGreaterDegreesConcernWorkersBoringCriminalsAttachmentGoodsNervesDestroyingMeaninglessPrimitiveOrganizeWorldlySmall Is BeautifulLack Of Compassion Book:SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL Source: SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL