• Categories
  • Soul Quotes   801
  • The soul is the cause or source of the living body. The terms cause and source have many senses. But the soul is the cause of its body alike in all three senses which we explicitly recognize. It is (a) the source or origin of movement, it is (b) the end, it is (c) the essence of the whole living body.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Essence Quotes , Soul Quotes
  • Nothing is more stimulating and more salutary to (or for) the inner (or inward) development than the exemple of men devoted to the good. It is in the company of men pursuing a same ideal that the still weavering (or unsteady) soul can set oneself ("se fixer", Fr) and stick to (or attach to) everything that is noble and generous.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : African Spir Quotes , Men Quotes , Soul Quotes
  • In [the soul] one part naturally rules, and the other is subject, and the virtue of the ruler we maintain to be different from that of the subject; the one being the virtue of the rational, and the other of the irrational part. Now, it is obvious that the same principle applies generally, and therefore almost all things rule and are ruled according to nature.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Soul Quotes , Principles Quotes
  • Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first. It rises in thought, to the end that it may be uttered and acted. Always in proportion to the depth of its sense does it knock importunately at the gates of the soul, to be spoken, to be done.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Soul Quotes , Depth Quotes