Spirit Quotes

A book full of brilliance imparts some of it even to its opponents.

Many writers are neither spirit nor wine, but rather spirits- of-wine: they can catch fire, and then they give off heat.

Spirit is the life that itself cuts into life: with its own torment it increases its own knowledge. Did you already know that?

What the sense feeleth, what the spirit discerneth, hath never its end in itself. But sense and spirit would fain persuade thee that they are the end of all things: so vain are they.

Not with wrath do we kill, but with laughter. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity!

Women want to serve, and this is where their happiness lies: but the free spirit does not want to be served, and this is where hishappiness lies.

The spirit of the poet craves spectators... even if only buffaloes.

There are expressions and bulls-eyes of the spirit, there are epigrams, a little handful of words, in which a whole culture, a whole society is suddenly crystallized.

He who knoweth the reader, doeth nothing more for the reader. Another century of readers - and spirit itself will stink.

Instruments and playthings are sense and spirit: behind them there is still the Self. The Self seeketh with the eyes of the senses, it hearkeneth also with the ears of the spirit.

I love him who reserveth no share of spirit for himself, but wanteth to be wholly the spirit of his virtue: thus walketh he as spirit over the bridge.

The degree and kind of a man's sexuality reach up into the ultimate pinnacle of his spirit.

Does not the discipline of the scientific spirit just commence when one no longer harbours any conviction?

A nation usually renews its youth on a political sick-bed, and there finds again the spirit which it had gradually lost in seeking and maintaining power.

Even now, nature is the only flame, on which the poetic spirit feeds; from it alone it draws all its power, to it alone it speaks even in the artificial, in the man engaged in culture.

Love is not a condition of the spirit but a sign of the zodiac.

When I feel good, the crowd is behind me, have a great spirit, I think I can be very tough to beat.

Lady Maccon cogitated. She would like to encourage this new spirit of social-mindedness. If Felicity needed anything in her life, it was a cause. Then she might stop nitpicking everyone else.

This is the spirit of prayer--sincere, humble, believing, submissive. Other prayer than this the Bible does not require--God will not accept.

The gospel breathes the spirit of love. Love is the fulfilling of its precepts, the pledge of its joys, and the evidence of its power.

On the issues of religious liberty, the Supreme Court continues to scrape against the bedrock of the American spirit.

I've never met an artist whose spirit didn't want to fly.

Humble spirits are free to love and to be who they are. They have no artificial standards to live up to.

The only thing that can cause your body to hurt in your energy processing centers, [chakras] is when you are losing Spirit through one of them.

A man of spirit must not think of the word difficulty as so much as existing. Away with it!

On the stage on which we are observing it, — Universal History — Spirit displays itself in its most concrete reality.

The greatest asset of any nation is the spirit of its people, and the greatest danger that can menace any nation is the breakdown of that spirit-the will to win and the courage to work.

The table I write on I say exists ... meaning thereby that if I was in my study I might perceive it, or that some other spirit actually does perceive it.

God's trustiest lieutenants often lack official credentials. They may be professed atheists who are also men of honour and high public spirit.

Impertinence will intermeddle in things in which it has no concern, showing a want of breeding, or, more commonly, a spirit of sheer impudence.

We need a spirit of adoption to take us out of the foundling hospital of the world, and to put us into the celestial family.

Sink not in spirit; who aimeth at the sky Shoots higher much than he that means a tree.

It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush.

For the atom's soul is nothing but energy. Spirit blazes in the dullest of clay. The life of every woman or man - the heart of it - is pure and holy joy.

Ever of thee I'm fondly dreaming, Thy gentle voice my spirit can cheer.

A man must learn to love his children, not because they are his, but because they are children, else his love will be scarcely a better thing at last than the party-spirit of the faithful politician.

I make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command.

The song seraphically free Of taint of personality, So pure that it salutes the suns The voice of one for millions, In whom the millions rejoice For giving their one spirit voice.

I believe that most of what was said of God was in reality said of that Spirit whose body is Earth.

Spirit itself is not human; it may spring up in any life... it may exist in all animals, and who know in how many undreamt-of beings, or in the midst of what worlds?

To drink in the spirit of a place you should be not only alone but unhurried.

Torture continues to be practiced around the world by rogue regimes whose cruel methods match their determination to crush the human spirit.

we're too great a nation to allow the evil-doers to affect our soul and our spirit.

It is one of the great goals of my administration to invigorate the spirit of involvement and citizenship. We will encourage faith-based and community programs without changing their mission.

I pray daily, and I pray in all kinds of places. I mean, I pray in bed, I pray in the Oval Office. I pray a lot. And just different as the spirit moves me. And faith is an integral part of my life.

Our body is the temple of our spirit.

if there's a spirit world why don't the ghosts of dead artists get together and inhibit bad playwrights from tormenting first-nighters?

For me, listening to my breath in between the lines, allows me to be in deep connection to my spirit.

I practice yoga every day. The practice calms my spirit, and allows me to be present.

Facts by themselves can often feed the flame of madness, because sanity is a spirit.