Soul Quotes

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
Aristotle

Madness, Excellent, Exempt

Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts.
Henry Rollins

Love, Work, Hate

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Beauty, Alone, May

Love is the beauty of the soul.
Saint Augustine

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.
Nelson Mandela

Society, Children, Revelation

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
Samuel Ullman

May, Give, Living

The soul never thinks without a picture.
Aristotle

Picture, Thinks

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
Plato

Thinking, Talking

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.
Charles Kingsley

Trust, Best, Blessed

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
Plato

Music, Education, Sound

If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.
Khalil Gibran

Humble, Him, Jesus

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
John Muir

Beauty, Nature, Strength

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship, Good, Believed

Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
Albert Schweitzer

Sunday, Taken, Orphan

But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.
Aristotle

Change, Time, Mind

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?
Khalil Gibran

Between, Dream, Difference

Soul Quote

Beauty awakens the soul to act.
Dante Alighieri

Beauty, Act, Awakens

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.
Aristotle

Nature, Eyes, Reason

God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.
Chanakya

God, Feelings, Present

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.
Aristotle

Body, Whether, Ask

Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Noble, Essence, Egoism

Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.
Aristotle

Time, Someone, May

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'
Edgar Allan Poe

Nature, Art, Through

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.
Plato

Food, Knowledge, Said

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.
Booker T. Washington

Hate, Him, Making

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
Henry David Thoreau

Money, Necessity, Buy

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
George Eliot

True, Blessed, Human

Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
George Bernard Shaw

Another, Earth, Class

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.
George Bernard Shaw

Bad, Battle, Moral

Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.
Michael Jackson

Love, Truth, Heart

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