Definition of Soul

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Definition of Soul

Soul

Sole.

To afford suitable sustenance.

The spiritual, rational, and immortal part in man; that part of man which enables him to think, and which renders him a subject of moral government; -- sometimes, in distinction from the higher nature, or spirit, of man, the so-called animal soul, that is, the seat of life, the sensitive affections and phantasy, exclusive of the voluntary and rational powers; -- sometimes, in distinction from the mind, the moral and emotional part of man's nature, the seat of feeling, in distinction from intellect; -- sometimes, the intellect only; the understanding; the seat of knowledge, as distinguished from feeling. In a more general sense, "an animating, separable, surviving entity, the vehicle of individual personal existence."

The seat of real life or vitality; the source of action; the animating or essential part.

The leader; the inspirer; the moving spirit; the heart; as, the soul of an enterprise; an able general is the soul of his army.

Energy; courage; spirit; fervor; affection, or any other noble manifestation of the heart or moral nature; inherent power or goodness.

A human being; a person; -- a familiar appellation, usually with a qualifying epithet; as, poor soul.

A pure or disembodied spirit.

To indue with a soul; to furnish with a soul or mind.

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Soul Quotations

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
Maya Angelou

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.
Albert Einstein

True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.
Albert Einstein

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.
Albert Einstein

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
Albert Einstein

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.
Wayne Dyer

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.
Marilyn Monroe

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
Mark Twain

Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul.
Mark Twain

You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
C. S. Lewis

Soul Translations

soul in Afrikaans is gees
soul in Dutch is ziel, gemoed, geest
soul in Finnish is sielu
soul in German is Seele
soul in Latin is animus
soul in Portuguese is alma

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