Word: soul
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Platonic doctrine that some ideas are visible only to the soul and not to the body, is closely connected with the Platonic idea of the soul. Plato believed the soul to be immortal. He believed in an ideal world above the heavens which were the real home of souls, exiled and imprisoned on earth...
...Republic," Socrates states a belief in the future life. He says that everything has its natural enemy which tends to destroy it. If now, anything is found whose enemy can only corrupt it, we may consider that it cannot be destoryed. Since the soul can be corrupted but not destroyed, it must be immortal...
...perseverance and a deeper determination. Yet victory is better than the most honorable defeat. Do not adopt the theory that it really doesn't matter whether we win or lose, for it does matter and it rests with all to neglect no detail, to support the captain heart and soul so that the team may line up hereafter with the spirit of "win we must and will...
...McPherson spoke of man's need of faith for the development of every side of his character; physical, mental and moral. As faith in the doctor's care is indispensable to the patient's easy recovery; as faith is the very soul of all intellectual and artistic powers, thus also, unless the whole universe is a mockery, man must feel that it inspires him with faith in the divine love which created all things...
...beautiful thought that the human soul is capable of absorbing for itself the peace, the wisdom, and the worth with which it comes into contact. The student, the poet, the saint are lofty by their attainments...