Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
There are two kinds of disease of the soul, vice and ignorance.
—Socrates
To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.
—Plato
Creativity is the firing of my soul.
—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
One day people will stop fighting, waging war, executing people, and will begin to love one another. This day cannot be evaded, for within every person’s soul lies love, not hatred, toward others. Let’s do all we can to reach this day more quickly.
—Leo Tolstoy
Memory is the scribe of the soul.
—Aristotle
Regeneration expresses those supernatural, divine, new qualities, infused by the Spirit into the soul, which are the principles of all holy actions.
—John Flavel
Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
—George Washington
My soul can find no staircase to heaven unless it be through earth’s loveliness.
—Michelangelo
Part of my soul I seek thee, and claim thee my other half.
—John Milton
Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.
—Plato
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
—Seneca
You have been the last dream of my soul.
—Charles Dickens
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.
—Plato
If the soul flies to Jesus Christ, they may find rest in him, for he came into the world to destroy Satan, and to rescue souls out of his hands.
—Jonathan Edwards
Virtue is a kind of health, beauty and good habit of the soul.
—Plato
Books give a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.
—Plato
Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul.
—Plato
Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
—Plato
Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
—Plato
The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture.
At the beginning of the journey to the next world, one’s education and culture can either provide the greatest assistance, or else act as the greatest burden, to the person who has just died.
—Plato
It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.
—Plato
Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
—Plato
In order for man to succeed in life, God provided him with two means, education and physical activity.
Not separately, one for the soul and the other for the body, but for the two together.
With these means, man can attain perfection.
—Plato
And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul?
Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.
—Plato
Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.
—Plato
I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether.
—Socrates
The soul is pure when it leaves the body and drags nothing bodily with it, by virtue of having no willing association with the body in life but avoiding it…..Practicing philosophy in the right way is a training to die easily.
—Socrates
Hope is the desire of the soul to be convinced that the dream will come true.
—René Descartes