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Soul Quotes by Alain de Botton
- Differ though we might with Christianity's view of what precisely our souls need, it is hard to discredit the provocative underlying thesis, which seems no…
- Our minds are susceptible to the influence of external voices telling us what we require to be satisfied, voices that may drown out the faint…
- The longing for a destiny is no nowhere stronger than in our romantic life. All too often forced to share our bed with those who…
- It's as though either you accept [religious] doctrine and then you can have all the nice stuff, or you reject the doctrine and you're living…
- The secular world is full of holes. We have secularized badly.
- We may not agree with what religions are trying to teach us, but we can admire the institutional way in which they're doing it.
- Religions are so subtle, so complicated, so intelligent in many ways that they're not fit to be abandoned to the religious alone; they're for all…
- The universe is large and we are tiny, without the need for further religious superstructure. One can have so-called spiritual moments without belief in the…
More Soul Quotes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness. — Aristotle
- The soul never thinks without a picture. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on… — Aristotle
- But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- It's our hearts and brains that we should exercise more often. You can put on all the makeup you want, but it… — Kevyn Aucoin
- Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar. — Nnamdi Azikiwe
- I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the… — Neil Armstrong
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt