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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Some sell their soul for the easy road. The devil's always buying. I can't count the ones I've known who fell right into line.

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When the soul wants to depend upon nothing, not even upon life, that is the height of philosophy, the height of manhood.

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Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

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Our souls, shame-wounded by our sins, cling to us yet more, a woman to her lover clinging, the more the more.

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If bodies please thee, praise God on occasion of them, and turn back thy love upon their Maker; lest in these things which please thee, thou displease. If souls please thee, be they loved in God: for they too are mutable, but in Him they are firmly established.

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The secular world is full of holes. We have secularized badly.

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[S]ince brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.

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I acknowledge that four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what our soul is.

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Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

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The desire to serve the common good must without fail be a requisite of the soul, a necessity for personal happiness; if it issuesnot from there, but from theoretical or other considerations, it is not at all the same thing.

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The soul of India lives in its villages.

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Lofty souls are always inclined to make a virtue of misfortune.

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It is the soul itself which sees and hears, and not those parts which are, as it were, but windows to the soul.

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we're too great a nation to allow the evil-doers to affect our soul and our spirit.

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Lay not that flattering unction to your soul, That not your trespass but my madness speaks.

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But what is happiness? If we consider what the function of man is, we find that happiness is a virtuous activity of the soul.

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"Body am I, and soul" - so saith the child. And why should one not speak like children?

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Truly speaking, it is not instruction, but provocation, that I can receive from another soul. What he announces, I must find true in me, or reject; and on his word, or as his second, be he who he may, I can accept nothing.

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Few see beyond the outward appearance And recognize the true worth of a human soul. When they do, miracles occur.

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