soul Quotes

There are two distinctive peculiarities by reference to which we characterize the soul (1) local movement and (2) thinking, discriminating, and perceiving. Thinking both speculative and practical is regarded as akin to a form of perceiving; for in the one... ...

... the good for man is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, or if there are more kinds of virtue than one, in accordance with the best and most perfect kind.

A state of the soul is either (1) an emotion, (2) a capacity, or (3) a disposition; virtue therefore must be one of these three things.

Happiness is self-connectedness.

And inasmuch as the great-souled man deserves most, he must be the best of men; for the better a man is the more he deserves, and he that is best deserves most. Therefore the truly great-souled man must be a... ...

We have no evidence as yet about mind or the power to think; it seems to be a widely different kind of soul, differing as what is eternal from what is perishable; it alone is capable of existence in isolation... ...

Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them. A true friend is one soul in two bodies

Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.

Adoration is made out of a solitary soul occupying two bodies.

Of the irrational part of the soul again one division appears to be common to all living things, and of a vegetative nature.