Soul Existence Quotes

Either you're a person wondering if you have a soul, or you're a soul who knows that being a person isn't real.

A soul might very well exist, but we, as physicists, try to measure and quantify everything. So far, no one has been able to create an experiment to do this for the soul. Efforts have been made to weigh the body after death, but each time we find no evidence of a soul. So a soul may very well exist, but it is not a testable theory.

I was asking if unwinding kills you, or if it leaves you alive somehow. C'mon—it's not like we haven't thought about it." (...) What do you think, Connor?" asks Hayden. "What hap­pens to your soul when you get unwound?" Who says I even got one?" For the sake of argument, let's say you do." Who says I want an argument?

I believe humans have souls, and I believe in the conservation of souls.

Excuse me, are you the imprint of a departed soul?

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.

The ego is frightened by death, because ego is part of the incarnation and ends with it. That is why we learn to identify with our soul, as the soul continues after death. For the soul, death is just another moment.

I am positive I have a soul; nor can all the books with which materialists have pestered the world ever convince me to the contrary.

Souls! When have you seen your own soul - that you're so certain you have one?

I am confident that there truly is such a thing as living again, that the living spring from the dead, and that the souls of the dead are in existence.

I don't think I do have a soul.

If we don't have souls then who am I talking to when I keep telling myself to be good?

We must doubt the certainty of everything which passes through the senses, but how much more ought we to doubt things contrary to the senses, such as the existence of God and the soul.

Reasoning from the common course of nature, and without supposing any new interposition of the Supreme Cause, which ought always to be excluded from philosophy; what is incorruptible must also be ingenerable. The soul, therefore, if immortal, existed before our birth: And if the former existence noways concerned us, neither will the latter.

This is the first, wildest, and wisest thing I know, that the soul exists, and that it is built entirely out of attention.

Same with souls. They can't survive without a body for long.

For men know not what the nature of the soul is; whether it is engendered with us, or whether, on the contrary, it is infused into us at our birth, whether it perishes with us, dissolved by death, or whether it haunts the gloomy shades and vast pools of Orcus.

I believe what it says in the scriptures and in the Bhagavad Gita: 'Never was there a time when you did not exist, and there never will be a time when you cease to exist.'

If I am mistaken in my opinion that the human soul is immortal, I willingly err; nor would I have this pleasant error extorted from me; and if, as some minute philosophers suppose, death should deprive me of my being, I need not fear the raillery of those pretended philosophers when they are no more.

But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.

We have no evidence whatsoever that the soul perishes with the body.

I do emphasize that we cannot just get out of the Bible a definition of the soul.

It is not that we have a soul, we are a soul.

The statements of atheists ought to be perfectly clear of doubt. Now it is not perfectly clear that the soul is material.

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.