#human soul

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories. ↗

— George Eliot

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Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. ↗

— Mark Twain

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The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power! ↗

— Maria Mitchell

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The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one. ↗

— John Ruskin

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The writer is the engineer of the human soul. ↗

— Joseph Stalin

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Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself from crime, violence, infamy, even at the cost of life. The struggle is the tragedy - not defeat or death. ↗

— Whittaker Chambers

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The great paradox of the 21st century is that, in this age of powerful technology, the biggest problems we face internationally are problems of the human soul. ↗

— Ralph Peters

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With reference to other religions, the Church sees a great difference between them and herself. The other religions are expressions of the human soul seeking God, with some beautiful spiritual insights, but also not without errors. Christianity is rather God seeking humanity. ↗

— Francis Arinze

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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

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