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Philosophical literature9 quotes
The soul is in a way all existing things. — Aristotle · 350 BCThere are more disorders of the mind than of the body, and they are of a more dangerous nature. — Cicero · 45 BC’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 · 180The soul of man is immortal and imperishable. — Socrates · 375 BCDeath 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 · 399 BCIt is perfectly certain that the soul is immortal and imperishable, and our souls will actually exist in another world. — Socrates · 347 BCAll 9 quotes →Religious literature3 quotes
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 BCFor what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? — Jesus · 60If 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 BCComedy drama1 quote
I had to be at that there crossroads last midnight, to sell my soul to the devil. — Tommy Johnson · 2000Comedy drama (film)1 quote
I had to be at that there crossroads last midnight, to sell my soul to the devil. — Tommy Johnson · 2000Didactic poem1 quote
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 · 55 BCHistorical literature1 quote
The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body. — Michel Foucault · 1975Scientific literature1 quote
"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