If thinking is like perceiving, it must be either a process in which the soul is acted upon by what is capable of being thought, o...r a process different from but analogous to that. The thinking part of the soul must therefore be, while impassable, capable of receiving the form of an object; that is, must be potentially identical in character with its object without being the object. Mind must be related to what is thinkable, as sense is to what is sensible.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So, if we must give a general formula applicable to all kinds of soul, we must describe it as the first actuality [entelechy] of a... natural organized body.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Twist was a guided missile, launched from the ghetto into the very heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religi...on, and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Since body and soul are radically different from one another and belong to different worlds, the destruction of the body cannot me...an the destruction of the soul, any more than a musical composition can be destroyed when the instrument is destroyed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O my black soul! Now thou art summoned By sickness, death's herald, and champion;... Thou art like a pilgrim, which abroad hath done Treason,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To whatsoever upright mind, to whatsoever beating heart I speak, to you it is committed to educate men. By simple living, by an il...limitable soul, you inspire, you correct, you instruct, you raise, you embellish all. By your own act you teach the beholder how to do the practicable. According to the depth from which you draw your life, such is the depth not only of your strenuous effort, but of your manners and presence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When he has seen, that it is not his, nor any man's, but it is the soul which made the world, and that it is all accessible to him..., he will know that he, as its minister, may rightfully hold all things subordinate and answerable to it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »