Quotes for: soul

Quotes for: soul

Science without conscience is only ruin of the soul.
François Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel

Science without conscience is only ruin of the soul.

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For souls nobly born valor doesn't await the passing of years.
Pierre Corneille - Le Cid

For souls nobly born valor doesn't await the passing of years.

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
Augustine of Hippo

They change the sky, not their soul, who run across the sea.
Quintus Horatius Flaccus - Epistles

Philosophy is the culture of the soul.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

One must never let the fire go out in one's soul but keep it burning.
Vincent Willem van Gogh

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Confidence raises the soul.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Emile, or On Education

What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.
Robert Green Ingersoll

At any moment you choose you can retire within yourself. Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle

Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.
Gérard de Nerval

Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.

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The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
Edvard Munch

Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.

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Go, nothing is better for the soul
Than to dispel some sadness from a soul!
Paul Verlaine - Ecoutez la chanson bien douce

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Only the passions, the great passions, can lift the soul to the greatest things.
Denis Diderot - Philosophical Thoughts

Intelligence is the eye of the soul, not its strength. Its strength is in the heart, that is, in the passions.
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims

As the sun is the light of the day, so the soul is the light of the awakened body. As the moon is the light of the night, so is the soul the light of the sleeping body.
Hildegard of Bingen - Causae et Curae

And days together stand I on the shore,
Seeking, in my soul, the land of Greece.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Iphigenia in Tauris

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Patience reveals the soul's hidden riches.
Publilius Syrus - Sentences

Patience reveals the soul's hidden riches.

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Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
Karl Marx

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
Marcus Aurelius

Eyes are the windows of the soul.
Hildegard of Bingen

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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
Democritus

He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.
Henry David Thoreau

Now do you think one can acquire any appreciable knowledge of the nature of the soul without knowing the nature of the whole?
Plato - Phaedrus

What the inner voice says
Will not disappoint the hoping soul.
Friedrich Schiller

To live is to be slowly born. It would be a bit too easy if we could go about borrowing ready-made souls.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Reason is nothing but a wonderful and unintelligible instinct in our souls.
David Hume - A Treatise of Human Nature

There are only two remedies for the suffering of the soul: hope and patience.
Pythagoras

Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions are the voice of the body.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Emile, or On Education