Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful: they are found because it was possible to find them.

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.

Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.

There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.

To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.

I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.

We conceal it from ourselves in vain – we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

The challenge for me as an actor is if you become a celebrity, you don’t meet strangers anymore. And strangers are where we have our anonymity. And I believe it’s essential for the soul to be anonymous, especially if you’re going to be an actor.

Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?

Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

God’s first creature, which was light.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

Children always turn to the light.

Most of the people that I deal with are human. So I’ve had a lot of experience with that.

It is hard to contend against one’s heart’s desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.

They might not need me; but they might. I’ll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it ‚the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.‘ The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of ‚Artist.‘

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.

Science sent the Hubble telescope out into space, so it could capture light and the absence thereof, from the very beginning of time. And the telescope really did that. So now we know that there was once absolutely nothing, such a perfect nothing that there wasn’t even nothing or once.

War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

Music from my fourth year began to be the first of my youthful occupations. Thus early acquainted with the gracious muse who tuned my soul to pure harmonies, I became fond of her, and, as it often seemed to me, she of me.

As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

Love is not consolation. It is light.

Every aspect of human technology has a dark side, including the bow and arrow.

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter’s soul.

What my character is or how many jails I have lounged in, or wards or walls or wassails, how many lonely-heart poetry readings I have dodged, is beside the point. A man’s soul or lack of it will be evident with what he can carve upon a white sheet of paper.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

The ‚soul‘ is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

Why there is one body in our System qualified to give light and heat to all the rest, I know no reason but because the Author of the System thought it convenient; and why there is but one body of this kind, I know no reason, but because one was sufficient to warm and enlighten all the rest.

In its primary aspect, a painting has no more spiritual message than an exquisite fragment of Venetian glass. The channels by which all noble and imaginative work in painting should touch the soul are not those of the truths of lives.

Each man is always in the middle of the surface of the earth and under the zenith of his own hemisphere, and over the centre of the earth.

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

I’m sick of giving creeps money off my soul.

Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.

Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.