Soul Concept Quotes

Souls are not designed to float around in thin air.

Soul, a moving river. Body, the riverbed.

Souls, I said. I mean, you always wonder if they're real. Even if you believe in them, you still have to wonder: Is my existence just this body? Is there really something more? Do I really have a soul?Uriel's smile blossomed again. You've got it backward, Harry, he said. You are a soul. You have a body.

Your body is only the garage for your soul.

What we call soul has been around a long time. It comes out of a particular culture that is African in origin, but influenced by 250 years of slavery, as well as other forms of racial oppression.

Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

If souls continue to exist, how does the air contain them from eternity?

Man in his true nature is substance, soul, spirit.

Of the irrational part of the soul again one division appears to be common to all living things, and of a vegetative nature.

Do I have no soul as punishment for not believing in the soul?

The soul is an illusion.

I am the most unhappy soul alive." "I'd heard it said that fairies have no souls." "Then do I ache, and bleed, and smart, elsewhere; still, call it soul for it is solely mine.

A religion such as Judaism or Catholicism might survive even if it comes to reject a literal account of God creating man and animals. But it cannot survive the rejection of an immaterial soul.

Should we say the self, once perceived, becomes the soul?

No one knows just how the idea of a soul or the supernatural started... It probably had its origin in the general laziness of mankind.

Our spirit is not dependent on the brain or body. It is eternal, and no one has one sentence worth of hard evidence that it isn't.

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.

Assure a man that he has a soul and then frighten him with old wives' tales as to what is to become of him afterward, and you have hooked a fish, a mental slave.

If you have a clear idea of a soul, you will have a clear idea of a form; for it is of the same genus, though a different species.

Soul is a constant. It's cultural. It's always going to be there, in different flavors and degrees.

What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.

I don't think the soul is immortal, or at least not immortal in individuals, but it may be immortal as an aspect of the human personality because when I talk about what literature nourishes, it would be silly of me or reductionist to say that it nourishes the brain.

Now, of course, you have guidance devices and all sorts of things. The soul would be more like the way this is all hooked together, a system of coordination.

There is no scientific way to validate anything that I or you can say about the soul because science cannot validate the existence of the soul any more that it can prove the existence of God.