Literary and Philosophical Quotes -- Quotes about the Soul -- Soul, Soulmate
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Quotes about the Soul 5
If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement. --Antonio Gramsci
Your soul . . . is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees. --Marcel Proust
We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies. --George Bernard Shaw
The soul's a sort of sentimental wife, That prays and whimpers of the higher life. --Richard Le Gallienne
Our souls are like those orphans whose unwedded mothers die in bearing them: the secret of our paternity lies in their grave, and we must there to learn it. --Herman Melville
However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is not a part of me, but a spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you. When the play, it may be the tragedy, of life is over, the spectator goes his way. It was a kind of fiction, a work of the imagination only, so far as he was concerned. --
Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it may erect pain barriers that the spiritual athlete must crash through. --Germaine Greer
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