“We don't have a soul. We are a soul. We have a body."
George Macdonald, 1892”

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Scottish journalist, novelist 1824–1905

Ralph Smart

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“We do not have anything, but the body. The soul is an invention, dust of the cross.”

Menotti Lerro (1980) Italian poet

Non abbiamo che il corpo. L’anima è un’invenzione, polvere di croce.

“We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies.”

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright

Ellie Dunn, Act II
1910s, Heartbreak House (1919)

“And if all of us are play-acting, there can be no such thing as a soul mate, because we don't have genuine souls.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

“English is so hierarchical. In Cree, we don't have animate-inanimate comparisons between things. Animals have souls that are equal to ours. Rocks have souls, trees have souls. Trees are 'who,' not 'what.”

Tomson Highway (1951) Canadian and Cree writer

“Abbot Zerchi smiled thinly. 'You don't have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”

Walter M. Miller, Jr. book A Canticle for Leibowitz

Ch 27
A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959), Fiat Voluntas Tua

“And even if this causes major changes in our world, we have nothing to lose, because by opening the door that unites body and soul, what we will gain is total love.”

Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra

Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), About sex

“You don’t have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.”

Clive Staples Lewis (1898–1963) Christian apologist, novelist, and Medievalist

Commonly attributed to Mere Christianity, where it is not found. Earliest reference seems to be an unsourced attribution to George MacDonald in an 1892 issue of the Quaker periodical The British Friend.
Misattributed
Variant: You don’t have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.