“My soul is like a pawn shop. I mean it's filled with unredeemed pleasures, old clarinets, and cameras, and motheaten fur.” — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Humankind struggles with collective powers for its freedom, the individual struggles with dehumanization for the possession of his soul. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
The body, she says, is subject to the force of gravity. But the soul is ruled by levity, pure. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
A human soul devoid of longing was a soul deformed, deprived of its highest good, sick unto death. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
The soul has to find and hold its ground against hostile forces, sometimes embodied in ideas which frequently deny its very existence,… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Art -- the fresh feeling, new harmony, the transforming magic which by means of myth brings back the scattered distracted soul from… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“He didn't ask "Where will you spend eternity?" as religious the-end-is-near picketers did but rather, "With what, in this modern democracy, will… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
An exchange occurs between man and woman. Love and thought complete each other in the human pair, and something like an exchange… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
(Socrates) said there were only two possibilities. Either the soul is immortal or, after death, things would be again as blank as… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
I don’t actually take much stock in the collapsing culture bit. I’m beginning to see it instead as the conduct of life… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
A millennial belief in a Holy God may have the effect of deepening the soul, but it is also obviously archaic, and… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
In the history of the world many souls have been, are, and will be, and with a little reflection this is marvelous… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
It is wrong to turn a man (a subject) into a thing (an object). By means of spiritual dialogue, the I-It relationship… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
In the greatest confusion there is still an open channel to the soul. It may be difficult to find because by midlife… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
In here, the human bosom -- mine, yours, everybody's -- there isn't just one soul. There's a lot of souls. But there… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
I have begun in old age to understand just how oddly we are all put together. We are so proud of our autonomy that… — Saul Bellow Copy Share
“On Broadway it was still bright afternoon and the gassy air was almost motionless under the leaden spokes of sunlight, and sawdust footprints lay… — Saul Bellow Copy Share
There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war. — Saul Bellow Copy Share
Myself is thus and so, and will continue thus and so. And why fight it? My balance comes from instability. — Saul Bellow Copy Share
The late philosopher Morris R. Cohen of CCNY was asked by a student in the metaphysics course, Professor Cohen, how do I know that… — Saul Bellow Copy Share
“But now the emphasis has shifted to making it. People have surrendered their personal moral objectives to government or schools or psychologists. It’s a… — Saul Bellow Copy Share
There's a kind of emptiness at the center of life ... nothing to form your life on, or by. — Saul Bellow Copy Share
“I don't know how it all at once came to me to talk a lot, tell jokes, kick up, and suddenly have views. When… — Saul Bellow Copy Share
“For knowledge of death makes us wish to extend our lives at the expense of others. And this is the root of the struggle… — Saul Bellow Copy Share
