Showing posts with label soul. Show all posts
Showing posts with label soul. Show all posts

March 6, 2011

#2,904

Modern man lost his soul and is no longer anything but the sum total of his behaviors.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 464

February 15, 2011

#2,788

It is above all against what the crowd proclaims to be “natural” that the noble soul rebels.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 447

February 7, 2011

#2,739

People without imagination chill our soul.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 440

February 2, 2011

#2,708

He who does not search for God at the bottom of his soul finds there nothing but muck.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 436

February 1, 2011

#2,704

Souls that Christianity does not prune never mature.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 435

January 14, 2011

#2,595

Modern man has no interior life: hardly even internal conflicts.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 420

January 1, 2011

#2,520

Those who confess to us that they have doubts about the immortality of the soul appear to believe we have an interest in their soul being immortal.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 405

December 24, 2010

#2,472

Ingratitude, disloyalty, resentment, rancor define the plebeian soul in every age and characterize this century.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 398

December 22, 2010

#2,459

The soul grows full of weeds unless the intelligence inspects it daily like a diligent gardener.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 396

December 9, 2010

#2,378

Angels and demons both meet with disappointment at the deathbed of a thoroughly modern man in his death throes: they find barely any trace of the soul that evaporated years ago.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 384

December 8, 2010

#2,376

Modern noise deafens the soul.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 384

December 7, 2010

#2,368

Whoever seeks to mount guard in the defiles of his soul must learn to dwell between rocky crags.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 383

December 6, 2010

#2,364

The soul becomes desiccated when it lives in a world that is almost exclusively manufactured.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 382

November 30, 2010

#2,329

Not only the intellect, in some men the soul itself brays.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 377

November 22, 2010

#2,279

The soul surpasses the world, whereas the world encompasses humanity.
The insignificance of humanity renders “philosophies of history” ridiculous, whereas the infinite price of each human soul vindicates religion.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 370

November 20, 2010

#2,268

For the man who lives in the modern world it is not the soul’s immortality in which it is difficult to believe, but in its mere existence.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 368

November 16, 2010

#2,242

Let us try to define the conditions and the causes of the spiritual history of an age, but let us be careful not to attribute to them the least participation in the truths which that age discovered.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 364

November 6, 2010

#2,184

Bodies reside comfortably in the high-tech suites of a modern building, but souls have no other place to live than the ruins of an old building.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 355

November 2, 2010

#2,161

It is impossible to convince the fool that there are pleasures superior to those we share with the rest of the animals.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 352

#2,158

Man ends up being motivated by the motives which they say he has. A beast if they say that his soul dies with the souls of beasts; an animal with shame, at least, if they say that he has an immortal soul.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 351