Virchand Gandhi Quotes

The body cannot be the soul.

In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter.

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

I'm always trying to figure out what God is and why matter exists and whether it contains spirit or not.

I'm very interested in theories in how we exist: how people exist and how souls exist separate from their bodies or their brains.

Spirit is never without matter, matter is never without spirit.

To us investigators, the concept 'soul' is irrelevant and a matter for laughter. But matter is an abstraction of exactly the same kind, just as good and just as bad as it is. We know as much about the soul as we do of matter.

The Westerners have lost the vision of heaven, they go hunting for the pure spirit in the belly. The pure soul takes not color and scent from the body, and Communism has nothing to do save with the body.

According to us, there are three things in the makeup of man. There is the body, there is the mind, and there is the soul.

Body and soul. Two different things

I maintain that the human mystery is incredibly demeaned by scientific reductionism, with its claim in promissory materialism to account eventually for all of the spiritual world in terms of patterns of neuronal activity. This belief must be classed as a superstition. ... We have to recognize that we are spiritual beings with souls existing in a spiritual world as well as material beings with bodies and brains existing in a material world.

Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul.

My fundamental axiom of speculative philosophy is that materialism and spiritualism are opposite poles of the same absurdity-the absurdity of imagining that we know anything about either spirit or matter.

Because the Soul is not made of matter, since it is spiritual, it cannot obey the laws of matter, it cannot be judged by the laws of matter.

Free will without fate is no more conceivable than spirit without matter, good without evil.

There are no inanimate objects.

The human soul is very much older than the human mind.

There is a desire deep within the soul which drives man from the seen to the unseen, to philosophy and to the divine.

But you're dead,' said Harry. 'Oh, yes,' said Dumbledore matter-of-factly. 'Then... am I dead too?' 'Ah,' said Dumbledore, smiling still more broadly. 'That is the question, isn't it? On the whole, dear boy, I think not.

We do not have too much intellect and too little soul, but too little intellect in matters of the soul.

I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.

Ahimsa is not a matter of mere dietetics: it transcends it.

What the soul cries out for is the resurrection of the senses. Even in this life, matter would be nothing to us if it were not the source of sensations.

Age and illness made one a dualist

When affirmation and negation came into being, Tao faded. After Tao faded, then came one-sided attachments.