soul Quotes

The soul is the form of the body

This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time. Seneca Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

The soul becomes prudent by sitting and being quiet.

To be always seeking after the useful does not become free and exalted souls.

The souls ability to nourish itself lies in the heart.

The Good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue, or if there be several human excellences or virtues, in conformity with the best and most perfect among them.

If a man of good natural disposition acquires Intelligence [as a whole], then he excels in conduct, and the disposition which previously only resembled Virtue, will now be Virtue in the true sense. Hence just as with the faculty of... ...

If there were no soul, or no mind within the soul to count, then time couldn't exist. Time is something that depends on change, and change might exist without a soul, but without a counter, no 'time' as a measurable... ...

The student of politics therefore as well as the psychologist must study the nature of the soul.

The ensouled is distinguished from the unsouled by its being alive. Now since being alive is spoken of in many ways, even if only one of these is present, we say that the thing is alive, if, for instance, there... ...