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“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?”

“Art is viable when it finds elements in the surrounding environment. Our ancestors drew their subject matter from the religious attitudes which weighed on their souls. We must now learn to draw inspiration from the tangible miracles around us.”

Art Soul Matter Inspiration Religious Attitude Environment Subjects Elements Draws Art Is Miracle Ancestor Tangible Subject Matter

Author:Umberto Boccioni

“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

“All things, in all their aspects, consist exclusively of 'souls', that is, of various kinds of subjects, or units of experiencing, with their qualifications, relations, and groupings, or communities.”

Kind Soul Community Subjects Aspect All Things Relation Various Units Qualifications

Author:Charles Hartshorne

“If there is a soul, what is it, and where did it come from, and where does it go? Can anyone who is guided by his reason possibly imagine a soul independent of a body, or the place of its residence, or the character of it, or anything concerning it? If man is justified in any belief or disbelief on any subject, he is warranted in the disbelief in a soul. Not one scrap of evidence exists to prove any such impossible thing.”

Source: Why I Am an Agnostic and Other Essays

“When every event was a miracle, when there was no order or system or law, there was no occasion for studying any subject, or being interested in anything excepting a religion which took care of the soul. As man doubted the primitive conceptions about religion, and no longer accepted the literal, miraculous teachings of ancient books, he set himself to understand nature.”

Men Book Soul Care Law Order Study Atheism Teaching Subjects Events Miracle Ancient Positive Atheism Accepted Occasions Conception Primitive Miraculous Literal Doubted

Author:Clarence Darrow

“How can one express the indefinable sensations that one experiences while writing an instrumental composition that has no definite subject? It is a purely lyrical process. It is a musical confession of the soul, which unburdens itself through sounds just as a lyric poet expresses himself through poetry...As the poet Heine said, 'Where words leave off, music begins.'”

Writing Said Soul Process Sound Music Subjects Poet Music Is Musical Sensations Confession Composition Definite Lyrical Indefinable

Author:Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

“But nothing is yet clear on the subject of the intellect and the contemplative faculty. However, it seems to be another kind of soul, and this alone admits of being separated, as that which is eternal from that which is perishable, while it is clear from these remarks that the other parts of the soul are not separable, as some assert them to be, though it is obvious that they are conceptually distinct.”

Kind Soul Seems Clear Subjects Eternal Obvious Intellect Faculty Remarks Contemplative

Author:Aristotle

“In [the soul] one part naturally rules, and the other is subject, and the virtue of the ruler we maintain to be different from that of the subject; the one being the virtue of the rational, and the other of the irrational part. Now, it is obvious that the same principle applies generally, and therefore almost all things rule and are ruled according to nature.”

Different Soul Principles Virtue Subjects All Things Obvious Rational Rulers Irrational

Book:Politics

Source: Politics

“The philosophical I is not the human being, not the human body or the human soul with the psychological properties, but the metaphysical subject, the boundary (not a part) of the world.”

World Humans Soul Self Body Human Beings Subjects Philosophical Property Boundaries Psychological Metaphysical Human Body Human Soul

Book:Notebooks, 1914-1916

Source: Notebooks, 1914-1916

“The soul is subject to health and disease, just as is the body. The health and disease of both . . . undoubtedly depend upon beliefs and customs, which are peculiar to mankind.”

Soul Body Belief Subjects Mankind Depends Disease Customs Peculiar

Author:Maimonides

“The subject of the novel is reality liberated from soul. The reader in complete independence presented with a structured process:let him evaluate it, not the author. The façade of the novel cannot be other than stone or steel, flashing electrically or dark, but silent.”

Soul Reality Process Dark Novel Subjects Reader Stones Independence Silent Steel Objectivity Liberated Evaluate

Author:Alfred Doblin

“Generous souls Are still most subject to credulity.”

Stills Soul Subjects Generous Credulity

Book:Dramatic Works of William D'Avenant

Source: Dramatic Works of William D'Avenant

“Profound meditation in solitude and silence frequently exalts the mind above its natural tone, fires the imagination, produces the most refined and sublime conceptions. The soul then tastes the purest and most refined delight, and almost loses the idea of existence in the intellectual pleasure it receives. The mind on every motion darts through space into eternity; and raised, in its free enjoyment of its powers by its own enthusiasm, strengthens itself in the habitude of contemplating the noblest subjects, and of adopting the most heroic pursuits.”

“Souls that have lived in virtue are in general happy, and when separated from the irrational part of their nature, and made clean from all matter, have communion with the gods and join them in the governing of the whole world. Yet even if none of this happiness fell to their lot, virtue itself, and the joy and glory of virtue, and the life that is subject to no grief and no master are enough to make happy those who have set themselves to live according to virtue and have achieved it.”

Ifs World Made Soul Matter Enough Whole Joy Grief Virtue Subjects Masters Glory Clean Whole World Irrational Communion Governing Make Happy

Author:Sallust

“Have a sense of piety ever on your mind, and be ever mindful that this is subject to no change, but will last you as long as life and support you in death. Elevate your soul by prayer and by contemplation without mystical enthusiasm.”

Mind Long Soul Lasts Prayer Support Subjects Enthusiasm Your Soul Contemplation Mystical Piety Support You

Book:Boswell in Holland, 1763-1764: Including His Correspondence with Belle de Zuylen (Zélide)

Source: Boswell in Holland, 1763-1764: Including His Correspondence with Belle de Zuylen (Zélide)

“And for the authentical truth of either person or actions, who (worth the respecting) will expect it in a poem, whose subject is not truth, but things like truth? Poor envious souls they are that cavil at truth's want in these natural fictions; material instruction, elegant and sententious excitation to virtue, and deflection from her contrary, being the soul, limbs, and limits of an authentical tragedy.”

Want Persons Soul Action Natural Poor Fiction Virtue Subjects Materials Limits Tragedy Contrary Instruction Elegant Limbs Envious Deflection

Book:The Works of George Chapman: Plays

Source: The Works of George Chapman: Plays

“After death the soul possesses self-consciousness, otherwise, it would be the subject of spiritual death, which has already been disproved. With this self-consciousness necessarily remains personality and the consciousness of personal identity.”

Soul Self Would Be Spiritual Consciousness Subjects Identity Personality Remains After Death Self Consciousness Personal Identity Spiritual Death

Book:Delphi Collected Works of Immanuel Kant (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of Immanuel Kant (Illustrated)

“God has power to create, or destroy, make, or unmake at his pleasure, to give life, or send death, to judge all, and to be judged nor accountable to none: to raise low things, and to make high things low at his pleasure, and to God are both soul and body due. And the like power have Kings; they make and unmake their subjects: they have power of raising, and casting down: of life, and of death: judges over all their subjects, and in all causes, and yet accountable to none but God only.”

Giving Soul Body Causes Pleasure Subjects Judging Kings Lows Raises Dues Judged Casting Soul And Body

Author:King James I

“I think I would be happy in that place I happen not to be, and this question of moving house is the subject of a perpetual dialogue I have with my soul.”

Thinking Soul Happens Would Be Moving House Subjects Dialogue My Soul Perpetual

Author:Charles Baudelaire

“The Witness is a huge step forward, and it is a necessary and important step in meditation, but it is not ultimate. When the Witness or the soul is finally undone, then the Witness dissolves into everything that is witnessed. The subject/object duality collapses and there is only pure nondual awareness, which is very simple, very obvious.”

Important Soul Simple Steps Meditation Subjects Awareness Objects Huge Pure Ultimate Obvious Witness Collapse Duality Undone Steps Forward

Book:Grace and Grit: Spirituality and Healing in the Life and Death of Treya Killam Wilber

Source: Grace and Grit: Spirituality and Healing in the Life and Death of Treya Killam Wilber

“Well, actually I look at the book and the movie [Deliver Us From Evil] - the movie isn't about a cop or the Devil, it's about God. There's a spirituality. We have aspects of life we're involved in but we really have no idea about the spiritual battle that rages around us that we are the subject of. The whole matter is the Devil tries to take souls away from God, and God tries to keep them. And that's what this is all about.”

Trying Wells Looks Book Ideas Soul Matter Whole Spiritual Spirituality Evil Subjects Involved Battle Devil Aspect Rage No Idea Cop Aspects Of Life

Author:Ralph Sarchie

“We hate poetry that has a palpable design upon us - and if we do not agree, seems to put its hand in its breeches pocket. Poetry should be great & unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself but with its subject. - How beautiful are the retired flowers! how would they lose their beauty were they to throng into the highway crying out, "admire me I am a violet! dote upon me I am a primrose!"”

Ifs Should Doe Soul Hands Seems Beautiful Hate Loses Subjects Cry Design Flower Agree Admire Pockets Violet Highways Retired

Book:Selected Letters

Source: Selected Letters

“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.”

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