Aristotle Quotes, Soul Quotes, Perception Quotes

The ensouled is distinguished from the unsouled by its being alive. Now since being alive is spoken of in many ways, even if only one of these is present, we say that the thing is alive, if, for instance, there is intellect or perception or spatial movement and rest or indeed movement connected with nourishment and growth and decay. It is for this reason that all the plants are also held to be alive . . .

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My schooling did me a great deal of harm and no good whatever; it was simply dragging a child's soul through the dirt.

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Come out into the broad light of day, come out from the little narrow paths, for how can the infinite soul rest content to live and die in small ruts?

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And when the stream Which overflowed the soul was passed away, A consciousness remained that it had left Deposited upon the silent shore Of memory images and precious thoughts That shall not die, and cannot be destroyed.

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But by my love and hope I beseech you: do not throw away the hero in your soul! Hold holy your highest hope!

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When he has seen, that it is not his, nor any man's, but it is the soul which made the world, and that it is all accessible to him, he will know that he, as its minister, may rightfully hold all things subordinate and answerable to it.

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Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.

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Of all the things which a man has, next to the gods his soul is the most divine and most truly his own.

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Unchecked, the dominating influences of money and of barren intellectualism would reduce the life of emotions to freezing point. And, unable to grasp the holier benefits of religion, the mysticism of the heart reacts in the art-intoxication. .... In this cold, irreligious and practical age the warmth of this devotion to art has kept alive many higher aspirations of our soul, which otherwise might readily have died, as they did in the middle of the last century.

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These dwell among the blackest souls,loaded down deep by sins of differing types.If you sink far enough,you'll see them all.

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Yet much remains To conquer still; peace hath her victories No less renowned then war, new foes arise Threatening to bind our souls with secular chains: Help us to save free conscience from the paw Of hireling wolves whose gospel is their maw.

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Bravery is not a quality of the body. It is of the soul.

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While the faculty of sensation is dependent upon the body, mind is separable from it

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Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.

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I was unhappy and so is every soul unhappy which is tied to its love for mortal things; when it loses them, it is torn in pieces, and it is then that it comes to realize the unhappiness which was there even before it lost them.

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The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.

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I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids Sprouting despondently at area gates.

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I built my soul a lordly pleasure-house, Wherein at ease for aye to dwell.

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Oh, God! I have an ill-divining soul!

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There be those who say that things and places have souls, and there be those who say they have not; I dare not say, myself, but I will tell of The Street.

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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Soul Quotes , Dare Quotes