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Really? Wow; not to be rude or anything. The best way to describe what I mean and answer your questions is to explain what I think the game was going for.

SOULS are something important to the world of Undertale, that much is a given; you could say the SOUL is some form of art. So if the colors of the SOULS represent a person's most prominent trait, their core trait that defines who they are the most, then what's meant by humans not being able to express themselves through Magic is not that they can't use it, but that Magic (represented by White) can't be a defining trait of a human - similarly to how Monsters are unable to use or be represented by Determination (let's say it's represented by Red for now) - because of their physical forms.

Humans can use Magic, but Magic can't be what most prominently defines a human like how it defines a Monster. Monsters are MADE of Magic, so they can be represented by Magic via a White SOUL because Magic is something that can define a monster.

You know how rich people say something like, "The poor will never know the perks of being rich,"? That's what I think this quote is, not what it's saying, but IS; a haughty statement of pride. We don't know the author of the book, so it is plausible.