"I have no clear notion," says Arnauld, "of what you mean by the word 'expression', when you say that our soul expresses more distinctly (all other things being equal) what pertains to its body, since it is an expression even of the whole universe in a certain sense" (LA, 105).
For FitzRalph, memory, understanding and willing are not the same (which was the position of Scotus and that adopted by Chatton against Ockham), neither are they really distinct but are distinguished inasmuch as the soul expresses itself differently through these powers.
The ego expresses self will, the soul expresses God's will.
Mr. LaMontaine spoke often about the frustration he felt when, after plumbing his soul to express a musical idea, it was judged out of step with current tastes.
"In the West we use them in a purely decorative way, but in Japan they work with the flower's soul to express not just beauty but ideas like death".
There, Proclus explains that the seemingly irregular movements of the planets ought not to be explained by means of Ptolemy's complicated theory of excentric spheres and epicycles, but are rather due to the fact that the planets are moved by intelligent souls which express in the movements of their bodies "the invisible powers of the Forms" (232.1 4).
At the same time, she does believe that men have suppressed the abilities and limited the opportunities of women, particularly with respect to intellectual endeavours, and that is a reason to expect that women might not be able to speak for themselves their souls cannot express themselves directly (Marinella 1601b, 80; Malpezzi Price and Ristaino 2008, 116).
Even though these are abstract qualities, when they are experienced in our souls, they express a life filled with generosity, kindness, acceptance and love.
It became the doorway to the infinitude of the soul, and expressed humanity's collective longing for freedom and brotherhood.
In the great soliloquies his Hamlet seems less to be wrestling with his soul than expressing casual confidences to the audience.
However, the passage merely reports that Pythagoras introduced the notion of the immortality of the soul without expressing approval or disapproval.
