„Nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose- a point on which the soul can focus its intellectual eye“

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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„I feel my heart glow with an enthusiasm which elevates me to heaven, for nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose — a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.“
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
„[P]eace of soul implies tranquillity of order, with material things ordered to the body, the body to the soul, the personality to neighbor and to God. Peace of mind is subjective tranquillity — a narrower thing. It requires great moral effort to attain peace of soul, but even those who are indifferent to right and wrong sometimes achieve peace of mind“
— Fulton J. Sheen
„But the soul which has been polluted, and is impure at the time of her departure, and is the companion and servant of the body always, and is in love with and fascinated by the body and by the desires and pleasures of the body, until she is led to believe that the truth exists only in bodily form, which a man may touch and see and taste and use for the purposes of his lusts—the soul, I mean, accustomed to hate and fear and avoid the intellectual principle, which to the bodily eye is dark and invisible, and can be attained only by philosophy—do you suppose that such a soul as this will depart pure and unalloyed?“
— Socrates
„Some lose all mind and become soul, insane.some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual.some lose both and become accepted“
— Charles Bukowski
„the area dividing the brain and the soulis affected in many ways byexperience –some lose all mind and become soul:insane.some lose all soul and become mind:intellectual.some lose both and become:accepted.“
— Charles Bukowski