Soul
The principle of life and thought in a living being, often held to be immortal.
Works to read
- Parva Naturalia (Short Treatises on Nature) by Aristotle, c. 350-330 BC · Great Books
- The Dark Night of the Soul by John of the Cross, c. 1584–1585
- The Passions of the Soul by Rene Descartes, 1649
- The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber, 1905
- De Anima by Aristotle, c. 350 BCE · Great Books
- Enneads by Plotinus, c. 253-270 · Great Books
- Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant, 1781 (revised 1787) · Great Books
- Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant, 1788 · Great Books
- The Ego and the Id by Sigmund Freud, 1923 (English 1927) · Great Books
- Fides et Ratio by John Paul II, 1998
- The Symposium by Plato, c. 385 BCE · Great Books
- Timaeus by Plato, c. 360 BCE · Great Books
Passages
From the texts
And the Soul is said to go down, to decline, only in that the object it illuminates lives by its life.
— Plotinus, Enneads
Verified quotations
The Woman-Soul leadeth us
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, Part Two
in a sense all things are full of soul
— Aristotle, Generation of Animals
Would that my soul were innocent as they
— Jean Racine, Phaedra
Heaven take my soul, and England keep my bones
— William Shakespeare, King John
Hang there like fruit, my soul, Till the tree die
— William Shakespeare, Cymbeline
Things won are done; joy’s soul lies in the doing
— William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida
Passages are verified quotations from the library that use one of these words: soul, souls, spirit. Sentences under “From the texts” are copied word for word from the full texts in this library. Read each in its context on the work's page.