#souls

Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls. ↗

— Heraclitus

#eyes #people #poor #souls #witnesses

Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words And never stops at all. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#hope #inspirational #souls #inspirational

Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#sadism #skepticism #souls

Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#great #great souls #law #never #passion

If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#believe #did #rational #souls #would

Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls. ↗

— Gaston Bachelard

#communion #effect #ideas #images #minds

He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#cause #failings #fame #generous #great

Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#music #refuge #souls

They were glued down, every last one of them. A packet of souls. Was it fate? Misfortune? Is that what glued them down like that? Of course not. Let's not be stupid. It probably had more to do with the hurled bombs, thrown down by humans hiding in the clouds. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#death

Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares. ↗

— William Law

#cares #certainly #christian #christian life #death