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Socrates3 quotes
The 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 BCAristotle1 quote
The soul is in a way all existing things. — Aristotle · 350 BCCicero1 quote
There are more disorders of the mind than of the body, and they are of a more dangerous nature. — Cicero · 45 BCEmily Bronte1 quote
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. — Emily Bronte · 1847Francis Crick1 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 · 1994Harriet Beecher Stowe1 quote
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 · 1852Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1 quote
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 · 1838Jesus1 quote
For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? — Jesus · 60Lucretius1 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 BCMarcus Aurelius1 quote
’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 · 180Michel Foucault1 quote
The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body. — Michel Foucault · 1975Pythagoras1 quote
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. — PythagorasTommy Johnson1 quote
I had to be at that there crossroads last midnight, to sell my soul to the devil. — Tommy Johnson · 2000