Highly excited with strong emotion or frustration; frenzied: frantic with worry. Characterized by rapid and disordered or nervous activity: made a frantic last-minute search for the lost key. Archaic Mentally deranged. Origin of frantic. Middle English frantik from Old French frenetique from Latin phrenÄticus; see frenetic. Related Forms:
Quotes with: antiquity, eyes, indicate, soul. Ralph Waldo Emerson said: The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul and: âWhatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right.
Where is the soul? If there is such as thing as the human soul, it has to be somewhere, surely...? Save 40% when you subscribe to BBC Focus Magazine today*. For those who believe in the soul, the question of its location has a perennial interest. The ancient Egyptians thought that it was found in the heart, and tomb pictures from around 2000BCE (before the common era) show the god Anubis weighing the soul-laden heart against the Feather of Truth.