Quotes
Quotes about Spirit
The novelist admits that he wants to give pleasure, while the poet and epic dramatists talk more about spiritual exaltation
There are times ... when drunkeness attacks the universe of the spirit. The balance of good and evil is very noticably distrubed, and while some fear the end of all things, others rejoice in the belief that a new age is coming
A balance should be possible. Between the claims of the physically transient and the spiritually permanent
Are we to be no more than brute beasts howling in perpetual heat? Can we not learn that love of the spirit that transcends the lust of the flesh? Love, love, let us have love
We can't grind our spiritual essence into the ground, but we do the next best thing. We shove it as low down as we can, walk on it
Man is a double creature in whom flesh contradicts spirit and instinct opposes aspirations
We should consider ourselves as spirits having a human experience, rather than humans having an occasional spiritual experience.
Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art.
We should consider ourselves as spirits having a human experience, rather than humans having an occasional spiritual experience.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love.
Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art.
I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Life: a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all.
The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.
The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which gave it birth a book is dead to us. Words divested of their magic are but dead hieroglyphs.
Coincidences are spiritual puns.
The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion not least of all. No existent theology can be a final formulation of spiritual truth.
To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not, rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common--this is my symphony.
Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could; Some blunders and absurdities crept in; Forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
