Source: Shantaram
From, Light on Carmel: An Anthology from the Works of Brother John of Saint Samson, O.Carm.
“If the universe has any soul, it is the soul of irony.”
Source: The Rise of Endymion (1997), Chapter 25 (p. 548)
“The human soul has need of truth and of freedom of expression.”
Draft for a Statement of Human Obligation (1943), Statement Of Obligations
Context: The human soul has need of truth and of freedom of expression.
The need for truth requires that intellectual culture should be universally accessible, and that it should be able to be acquired in an environment neither physically remote nor psychologically alien.
“I'm not a body with a soul, I'm a soul that has a visible part called the body.”
Source: Eleven Minutes
"The Larger College".
In Classic Shades, and Other Poems (1890)
Context: p>Behold this sea, that sapphire sky!
Where nature does so much for man,
Shall man not set his standard high,
And hold some higher, holier plan?
Some loftier plan than ever planned
By outworn book of outworn land?Where God has done so much for man,
Shall man for God do aught at all?
The soul that feeds on books alone —
I count that soul exceeding small
That lives alone by book and creed,—
A soul that has not learned to read.</p
“Every music has its own soul, Quincy.”
Source: Said to Quincy Jones as quoted in The Arranger, an article in Smithsonian Magazine. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/the-arranger-20940901/
"Only the Soul"
Degrees: Thought Capsules and Micro Tales (1989)
Variant: I learned that the world has a soul, and that whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of things.
Source: The Alchemist
