Quotes · Skopia

17 quotes

Discipline and Punish · 1975

★ 1.2

"You", your joys and your sorrows, your memories and ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behaviour of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules.

Francis Crick

1994

★ 1.8

Presocratic fragment · Fragment · Philosophical literature

The soul of man is divided into three parts, intelligence, reason, and passion. Intelligence and passion are possessed by other animals, but reason by man alone.

Pythagoras

Diogenes Laertius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers

★ 1.9

Scripture · Religious literature

If any man thinks he slays, and if another thinks he is slain, neither knows the ways of truth. The Eternal in man cannot kill: the Eternal in man cannot die. He is never born, and he never dies. He is in Eternity, he is for evermore. Never-born and eternal, beyond times gone or to come, he does not die when the body dies.

Bhagavad Gita

200 BC

★ 2.0

Poem · Philosophical literature · Didactic poem

Death therefore is nothing to us nor does it concern us a scrap, seeing that the nature of the spirit we possess is something mortal.

Lucretius

On the Nature of Things · 55 BC

★ 2.1

My soul an't yours, Mas'r! You haven't bought it, -ye can't buy it! It's been bought and paid for, by one that is able to keep it.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Uncle Tom's Cabin · 1852

★ 2.1

Courtroom speech · Speech · Philosophical literature

Death is, you see, one or the other of two things: either to be dead is to be non-existent, as it were, and a dead person has no awareness of anything at all; or else, as we are told, the soul undergoes some sort of transformation, or exchanging of this present world for another.

Socrates

Plato, Apology · 399 BC

★ 2.2

Philosophical dialogue · Dialogue · Philosophical literature

It is perfectly certain that the soul is immortal and imperishable, and our souls will actually exist in another world.

Socrates

Plato, Phaedo · 347 BC

★ 2.2

Philosophical dialogue · Dialogue · Philosophical literature

The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.

Socrates

Plato, Republic · 375 BC

★ 2.4

Film · Comedy drama (film) · Comedy drama

I had to be at that there crossroads last midnight, to sell my soul to the devil.

Tommy Johnson

O Brother, Where Art Thou? · 2000

★ 3.6

Poem · Magazine

Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Knickerbocker · 1838

★ 3.7

Scripture · Religious literature

For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul?

Jesus

Matthew 16:26 · 60

★ 3.8

Philosophical literature

There are more disorders of the mind than of the body, and they are of a more dangerous nature.

Cicero

Tusculan Disputations · 45 BC

★ 3.9

Personal journal · Philosophical literature

’Tis very dishonourable in life, that the soul should fail and desert its duty; while the body can hold out, and sustain its part.

Marcus Aurelius

Meditations · 180

★ 3.9

Novel

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

Emily Bronte

Wuthering Heights · 1847

★ 3.9

Philosophical literature

The soul is in a way all existing things.

Aristotle

On the Soul · 350 BC

★ 4.0

Scripture · Religious literature

And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Genesis 2:7

1405 BC

★ 7.2

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