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"We must see that consciousness is neither an isolated soul nor the mere function of a single nervous system, but of that totality of interrelated stars and galaxies which makes a nervous system possible."
"It is only to the individual that a soul is given. And the high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule, or to impose himself in any other way."
"Don't let your hearts grow numb. Stay alert. It is your soul which matters."
"I always think that we live, spiritually, By what others have given us in the significant hours of our life. These significant hours do not announce themselves as coming, but arrive unexpected."
"[I am not] the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger."
"This really revolutionary revolution is to be achieved, not in the external world, but in the souls and flesh of human beings."
"A single soul is richer than all the worlds."
"I can relate to soul, R&B... whatever people want to call me is fine. I just hope it makes them feel something."
"Poetry, far more than fiction, reveals the soul of humanity."
"The inner chambers of the soul are like the photographer's darkroom. Like a laboratory. One cannot stay there all the time or it becomes the solitary cell of the neurotic."
"I see myself wrapped in lies, which do not seem to penetrate my soul, as if they are not really a part of me. They are like costumes."
"The soul was not cured, it was as full as a clothes closet of dresses that did not fit."
"When performing an autopsy, even the most inveterate spiritualist would have to question where the soul is."
"Living is being born slowly. It would be a little too easy if we could borrow ready-made souls."
"We have divided the Virtues of the Soul into two groups, the Virtues of the Character and the Virtues of the Intellect."
"The soul has two parts, one rational and the other irrational. Let us now similarly divide the rational part, and let it be assumed that there are two rational faculties, one whereby we contemplate those things whose first principles are invariable, and one whereby we contemplate those things which admit of variation."
"While the faculty of sensation is dependent upon the body, mind is separable from it"
"Greatness of Soul seems therefore to be as it were a crowning ornament of the virtues; it enhances their greatness, and it cannot exist without them. Hence it is hard to be truly great-souled, for greatness of soul is impossible without moral nobility."
"The knowledge of the soul admittedly contributes greatly to the advance of truth in general, and, above all, to our understanding of Nature, for the soul is in some sense the principle of animal life."
"But then in what way are things called good? They do not seem to be like the things that only chance to have the same name. Are goods one then by being derived from one good or by all contributing to one good, or are they rather one by analogy? Certainly as sight is in the body, so is reason in the soul, and so on in other cases."
