#soul

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him. ↗

— Socrates

#following #god #him #life #like

Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#goal #himself #his #loses #man

A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist. ↗

— Sophocles

#discovers #intends #justice #kind #more

The damage done to this country by its own misconduct in the last few months and years, to its very heart and soul, is far greater and longer lasting than any damage that any terrorist could possibly inflict upon us. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

#could #country #damage #done #far

Is it not the business of the conductor to convey to the public in its dramatic form the central idea of a composition; and how can he convey that idea successfully if he does not enter heart and soul into the life of the music and the tale it unfolds? ↗

— John Philip Sousa

#central #composition #conductor #convey #does

Never let a man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul. The evil effect on himself is certain. ↗

— Robert Southey

#certain #effect #end #evil #good

There is only one home to the life of a river-mussel; there is only one home to the life of a tortoise; there is only one shell to the soul of man: there is only one world to the spirit of our race. If that world leaves its course and smashes on boulders of the great void, whose world will give us shelter? ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#give #great #home #leaves #life

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion. ↗

— Muriel Spark

#already #call #i #intrusion #leading

If few can stand a long war without deterioration of soul, none can stand a long peace. ↗

— Oswald Spengler

#few #long #none #peace #soul

There is something about killing people at close range that is excruciating. It's bound to try a man's soul. ↗

— Steven Spielberg

#bound #close #excruciating #killing #man