6 Quotes Tagged: the-soul

Can infinity have parts? What is meant by parts of infinity? If you reason it out, you will find that it is impossible. Infinity cannot be divided, it always remains infinite. If it could be divided, each part would be infinite. And there cannot be two infinites. Suppose there were, one would limit the other, and both would be finite. Infinity can only be one, undivided. Thus the conclusion will be reached that the infinite is one and not many, and that one Infinite Soul is reflecting itself through thousands and thousands of mirrors, appearing as so many different souls. It is the same Infinite Soul, which is the background of the universe, that we call God. The same Infinite Soul also is the background of the human mind which we call the human soul.

When I was a child, I imagined the soul to be a dragon, a shadow floating in the air like blue smoke — a huge winged creature, half bird, half fish. But inside the dragon, everything was red.

La beauté séduit la chair pour obtenir la permission de passer jusqu'à l'âme.

The reason of the human spirit seeking to return to that upper world is that its origin is from thence, and that it is of angelic nature.

If death, said my father, reasoning with himself, is nothing but the separation of the soul from the body; — and if it is true that people can walk about and do their business without brains, — then certes the soul does not inhabit there.

When did a sheep last die of old age? Sheep do not own themselves, do not own their lives. They exist to be used, every last ounce of them, their flesh to be eaten, their bones to be crushed and fed to poultry. Nothing escapes, except perhaps the gall bladder, which no one will eat. Descartes should have thought of that. The soul, suspended in the dark, bitter gall, hiding.