Quotes
Quotes about Spirit
The several sorts of religion in the world are little more than so many spiritual monopolies.
The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood. [Lat., Anima certe, quia spiritus, in sicco habitare non potest; ideo in sanguine fertur habitare.]
The sword conquered for a while, but the spirit conquers for ever!
Of my own spirit let me be in sole though feeble mastery.
One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.
He that loseth wealth, loseth much; he that loseth friends, loseth more; but he that loseth his spirit loseth all.
Every spirit makes its house, but as afterwards the house confines the spirit, you had better build well.
If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the spirit of man be unable to pass from this body to another?
Great men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force.
I am certain that after the dust of centuries has passed over our cities, we, too, will be remembered not for victories or defeats in battle or in politics, but for our contribution to the human spirit.
It must be of the spirit if we are to save the flesh.
There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.
Why, a spirit is such a little, little thing, that I have heard man, who was a great scholar, say that he'll dance ye a hornpipe upon the point of a needle.
Some who are far from atheists, may make themselves merry with that conceit of thousands of spirits dancing at once upon a needle's point.
I am the spirit of the morning sea, I am the awakening and the glad surprise.
I am the Spirit that denies. [Ger., Ich bin der Geist stets verneint.]
Aerial spirits, by great Jove design'd To be on earth the guardians of mankind: Invisible to mortal eyes they go, And mark our actions, good or bad, below: The immortal spies with watchful care preside, And thrice ten thousand round their charges glide: They can reward with glory or with gold, A power they by Divine permission hold.
Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep.
Know then, unnumber'd Spirits round thee fly, The light Militia of the lower sky.
The spiritual is the parent of the practical.
Be free all worthy spirits, and stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height.
The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.
All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.
His spiritual life has been exaggerated by a chronic attack of mental gallstones.
Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proofâ that's a drink that only the most hardened contemplation- guzzlers indulge in. Bodhisattvas dilute their Nirvana with equal parts of love and work.
