Quotes with soul-destroying

Quotes 361 till 380 of 556.

• The battle is on, and nothing less than the soul of America is at stake.

  Arthur C. Brooks
  American social scientist and musician (1964 - )
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• The beast for me is greed. Whether you read Dante, Swift, or any of these guys, it always boils down to the same thing: the corruption of the soul.

  Ben Nicholson
  English painter (1894 - 1982)
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• The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

  Aristotle
  Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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• The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.

  George Sand
  French writer (1804 - 1876)
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• The blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold and it's overturned the order of the soul...

  Leonard Cohen
  Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter, Singer (1934 - 2016)
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• The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.

  Christian Nevell Bovee
  American writer
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• The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, ''The medicines of the soul.''

  Paxton Hood
   
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• The common erotic project of destroying women makes it possible for men to unite into a brotherhood; this project is the only firm and trustworthy groundwork for cooperation among males and all male bonding is based on it.

  Andrea Dworkin
  American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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• The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.

  Henry Ward Beecher
  American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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• The desire for success lubricates secret prostitution's in the soul.

  Norman Mailer
  American writer (1923 - 2007)
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• The destiny of man is in his own soul

  Herodotus
  Greek historian (484 - 425)
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• The devil can site scripture for his own purpose! An evil soul producing holy witness is like a villain with a smiling cheek.

  William Shakespeare
  English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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• The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

  Albert Einstein
  German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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• The dream is a little hidden door in the innermost and most secret recesses of the soul, opening into that cosmic night which was psyche long before there was any egoconsciousness, and which will remain psyche no matter how far our ego-consciousness extends.

  The Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man (1933)

  Carl Gustav Jung
  Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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• The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

  Socrates
  Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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• The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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• The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution - this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.

  Margaret Oliphant
  British writer, historian (1828 - 1897)
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• The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.

  Ghose Aurobindo
  Indian philosopher, yogi, guru, poet, and nationalist (1872 - 1950)
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• The fossil fuel industry is destroying our planet and everything that we love.

  Billy Parish
  American environmental entrepreneur, author, and activist (1981 - )
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• The French equate intelligence with rational discourse, the Russians with intense soul-searching. For the Mexican, intelligence is inseparable from maliciousness.

  Carlos Fuentes
  Mexican novelist and essayist (1928 - 2012)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• ego-consciousness
• soul-searching
• maliciousness
• continuance
• everlasting
• inseparable

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