Rational Soul Quotes
- He who prohibited the making of a graven image would never himself have made an image in the likeness of holy things [i.e., by creating… — Clement of Alexandria
- Who has forbidden women to engage in private and individual studies? Have they not a rational soul as men do?...I have this inclination to study… — Juana Inés de la Cruz
- Just as a mirror, which reflects all things, is set in its own container, so too the rational soul is placed in the fragile container… — Hildegard of Bingen
- But it is the knowledge of necessary and eternal truths which distinguishes us from mere animals, and gives us reason and the sciences, raising us… — Gottfried Leibniz
- Action is the activity of the rational soul, which abhors irrationality and must combat it or be corrupted by it. When it sees the irrationality… — Iain Pears