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title: "6 Rational Soul Quotes by 6 authors"
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> [“The self-conscious feedback mechanism of the cortex allows us the hallucination that we are two souls in one body -a rational soul…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/the-self-conscious-feedback-mechanism-of-the-cortex-allows-us-the/)

[Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/)

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> [“When the man, by means if 'ibadat, succeeded in curbing his animal and canal passions and has thereby rendered submissive his animal…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/syed-muhammad-naquib-al-attas/when-the-man-by-means-if-ibadat-succeeded-in-curbing-his-animal-and/)

[Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/syed-muhammad-naquib-al-attas/)

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> [Just as a mirror, which reflects all things, is set in its own container, so too the rational soul is placed in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hildegard-of-bingen/just-as-a-mirror-which-reflects-all-things-is-set-in-its-own/)

[Hildegard of Bingen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hildegard-of-bingen/)

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> [But it is the knowledge of necessary and eternal truths which distinguishes us from mere animals, and gives us reason and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gottfried-leibniz/but-it-is-the-knowledge-of-necessary-and-eternal-truths-which/)

[Gottfried Leibniz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gottfried-leibniz/)

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> [“To obey is the proper office of a rational soul.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/montaigne/to-obey-is-the-proper-office-of-a-rational-soul/)

[Montaigne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/montaigne/)

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> [If the transmigration of a soul takes place into a rational being, it simply becomes the soul of that body. But if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sallust/if-the-transmigration-of-a-soul-takes-place-into-a-rational-being-it/)

[Sallust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sallust/)

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