Humans Have Souls

 Rudolf Christoph Eucken ( 1846 –  1926) was a German philosopher, and the winner of the 1908 Nobel Prize for Literature.

He maintained that humans have souls, and that they are therefore at the junction between nature and spirit. He believed that people should overcome their non-spiritual nature by continuous efforts to achieve a spiritual life, another aspect of his ethical activism.

It seems as if man could never escape from himself, and yet, when shut in to the monotony of his own sphere, he is overwhelmed with a sense of emptiness. The only remedy here is radically to alter the conception of man himself, to distinguish within him the narrower and the larger life, the life that is straitened and finite and can never transcend itself, and an infinite life through which he enjoys communion with the immensity and the truth of the universe. Can man rise to this spiritual level? On the possibility of his doing so rests all our hope of supplying any meaning or value to life (R. C. Eucken, Der Sinn und Wert des Lebens, p. 81).

"The attitude of man is essentially changed when the greatness and the success of life depend on a participation in a superhuman Spiritual Life. We are accustomed to view man as the meeting-point of a divergence of worlds, and to attribute to him on account of his characteristic nature an incomparable worth: this can no longer be asserted of him, for the New and the Higher lie in the Spiritual Life as openings of an independent inner world and not in man as man." Rudolf Eucken.
The new life; the secret of happiness and power [1917] by Samuel McComb