Aristotle Quotes, Men Quotes, Soul Quotes

If we state the function of man to be a certain kind of life, and this to be an activity or actions of the soul implying a rational principle, and the function of a good man to be the good and noble performance of these, and if any action is well performed when it is performed in accordance with the appropriate excellence human good turns out to be activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, and if there are more than one virtue, in accordance with the best and most complete.

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But it's a poor church that cares only for what happens to a soul after it leaves this life." -Damien

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The smell of violets, hidden in the green, Pour'd back into my empty soul and frame The times when I remembered to have been Joyful and free from blame.

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Those to whom worshiping is a window, to open but also to shut, have not yet visited the house of their souls whose windows are open from dawn to dawn.

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There are souls which, crab-like, crawl continually toward darkness, going back in life rather than advancing in it, using what experience they have to increase their deformity, growing worse without ceasing, and becoming steeped more and more thoroughly in an intensifying wickedness.

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To explore the whole sphere of the modern soul, to have sat in every nook- my ambition, my torture, and my happiness

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One age is like another for the soul.

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Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before, But vaster.

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How frugal is the chariot that bears a human soul.

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And the most difficult of tasks to keep Heights which the soul is competent to gain.

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Whence, then, this worship of the past? The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and authority of the soul.

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LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.

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The very reason for nature's existence is the education of the soul; it has no other meaning.

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There is more in every person's soul than we think.

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No words suffice the secret soul to show, For truth denies all eloquence to woe.

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Jiva (individual soul) is the conscious ruler of this body, in whom the five life principles come into unity, and yet that very Jiva is the Atman, because all is Atman.

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Music has the power of producing a certain effect on the moral character of the soul, and if it has the power to do this, it is clear that the young must be directed to music and must be educated in it.

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Each lost soul will be a hell unto itself, the boundless fire raging in its very vitals.

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The soul is "torn apart in a painful condition as long as it prefers the eternal because of its Truth but does not discard the temporal because of familiarity.

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Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!

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