This intrepid warrior for truth, this cultured, courteous…

Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul…

— L. Neil Smith

“As a battle cry against feudalism, the demand for democracy had a progressive character. As time went on, however, the metaphysics of natural law…

— Leon Trotsky

Two ideas are psychologically deep-rooted in man: self-protection and self-preservation. For self-protection man has created God, on whom he depends for his own protection,…

— Walpola Rahula

I think I have fairly heard and fairly weighed the evidence on both sides, and I remain an utter disbeliever in almost all that…

— Alfred Russel Wallace

“[On the Human Soul] While the Bible offers a clear distinction that the soul is separate from the body and discusses the idea of…

— Brian Goedken

I love Italian opera - it's so reckless. Damn Wagner, and his bellowings at Fate and death. Damn Debussy, and his averted face. I…

— D. H. Lawrence

“The struggle of the artist against the art-ideology, against the creative impulse and even against his own work also shows itself in his attitude…

— Otto Rank

A mermaid has not an immortal soul, nor can she obtain one unless she wins the love of a human being. On the power…

— Hans Christian Andersen

Affirm the body, beautiful and whole, The earth-expression of immortal soul. Affirm the mind, the messenger of the hour, To speed between thee and…

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“If you are not careful, their beauty will become both heaven and hell, you will betray every oath, abandon every loyalty, give up your…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

That intense faith in another world, that intense hatred for this world, that intense power of renunciation, that intense faith in God, that intense…

— Swami Vivekananda

Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to such as are fit for it, and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

For the people who ostensibly wish me well or are worried about my immortal soul, I say I take it kindly.

— Christopher Hitchens

People are fretful about lifestyle retailing because the idea that anyone's immortal soul and deepest longings can be quite so readily anticipated and consolidated…

— Peter York

Whatever their failings as a class may be, and however likely to lose their immortal souls, lawyers do not generally lose papers.

— Arthur Cheney Train