Spirit Quotes - Page 14

• Spirits that live throughout, Vital in every part, not as frail man, In entrails, heart or head, liver or reins, Cannot but by annihilating die.

  John Milton

  Heart, Men, Frail

  John Milton (1749). “Poetical works. A new ed. with notes of various authors by Thomas Newton. (With copper-plates.)”, p.413

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• At the heart of the cyclone tearing the sky And flinging the cloud and the towers by, Is a place of central calm: So here in the roar of mortal things, I have a place where my spirit sings, In the hollow of God's Palm.

  Edwin Markham

  Heart, Clouds, Sky

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• Water is also one of the four elements, the most beautiful of God's creations. It is both wet and cold, heavy, and with a tendency to descend, and flows with great readiness. It is this the Holy Scripture has in view when it says, "And the darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters." Water, then, is the most beautiful element and rich in usefulness, and purifies from all filth, and not only from the filth of the body but from that of the soul, if it should have received the grace of the Spirit.

  John of Damascus

  Beautiful, Should Have, Four Elements

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• All contempt for the sexual life, all denigration under the concept 'impure" is the essential crime against Life- against the Holy Spirit of Life".

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Essentials, Crime, Sexuality

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What”, p.42, Friedrich Nietzsche

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• Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Thinking, Light, Free Spirit

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook H 36, 1799.

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• Life's fulfillment finds constant obstacles in its path; but those are necessary for the sake of its advance. The stream is saved from the sluggishness of its current by the perpetual opposition of the soil through which it must cut its way. The spirit of fight belongs to the genius of life.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Fighting, Cutting, Genius

  Rabindranath Tagore (2015). “The Religion of Man”, p.87, Ravenio Books

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• The body, the mind, and the spirit don't form a pyramid, they form a circle. Each of them runs into the other two. The body isn't below the mind and the spirit; from the point of view it's between them. if you reside too much in the mind, then you get too abstract and cut off from the world. You long for the spiritual life, but you can't get to it, and you fall into despair. The exercise of the senses frees you from abstraction and opens the way to transcendence.

  Jane Smiley

  Running, Spiritual, Fall

  Jane Smiley (2017). “Moo”, p.216, Pan Macmillan

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• What they're not doing is marketing the Dead Kennedys in the spirit of what the band stood for.

  Jello Biafra

  Marketing, Band

  Interview with Scott Thill, www.popmatters.com. January 24, 2001.

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• The most abundant, least used, and most abused resource in the world is human spirit and ingenuity.

  Dee Hock

  Inspiration, World, Resources

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• A woman artist could be one of those intuitive geniuses [who] have kept their childlike spirit and have added to it breadth of vision and experience.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Photography, Art, Creativity

  "My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz: Volume One, 1915-1933".

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• The New Age orgy: The flesh was willing but the spirit's weak.

  Edward Abbey

  Age, Flesh, Weak

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.16, RosettaBooks

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• The mission of the law is not to oppress persons and plunder them of their property, even though the law may be acting in a philanthropic spirit. Its purpose is to protect persons and property.... If you exceed this proper limit -- if you attempt to make the law religious, fraternal, equalizing, philanthropic, industrial, or artistic -- you will then be lost in uncharted territory, in vagueness and uncertainty, in a forced utopia or, even worse, in a multitude of utopias, each striving to seize the law and impose it on you.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Religious, Law, Acting

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• O most glorious God ... Direct my thoughts, words and work, wash away my sins in the immaculate blood of the Lamb, and purge my heart by thy Holy Spirit.... Daily frame me more and more into the likeness of thy Son Jesus Christ.... Thou gavest thy Son to die for me, and hast given me assurance of salvation.

  George Washington

  Jesus, Heart, Son

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• Let me now warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party. The common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it. It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one part against another. In governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged.

  George Washington

  Wise, Party, Government

  George Washington’s "Farewell Address", oll.libertyfund.org. September 19, 1796.

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• My chief joy is to photograph the great in heart, in mind, and in spirit, whether they be famous or humble.

  Yousuf Karsh

  Heart, Humble, Joy

  Yousuf Karsh (1969). “Yousuf Karsh”

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• When I think of death, I only regret that I will not be able to see this beautiful country anymore unless the Indians are right and my spirit will walk here after I'm gone.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Beautiful, Country, Regret

  Maria Costantino, Georgia O'Keeffe (1994). “Georgia O'Keeffe”, Smithmark Pub

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• When a school introduces and trains each child of society into membership within such a little community, saturating him with the spirit of service, and providing him with the instruments of effective self-direction, we shall have the deepest and best guaranty of a larger society which is worthy, lovely, and harmonious

  John Dewey

  Children, School, Self

  John Dewey (2013). “The School and Society and The Child and the Curriculum”, p.29, University of Chicago Press

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• Punning is an art of harmonious jingling upon words, which, passing in at the ears, excites a titillary motion in those parts; and this, being conveyed by the animal spirits into the muscles of the face, raises the cockles of the heart.

  Jonathan Swift

  Art, Animal, Ears

  Jonathan Swift (1803). “The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift ...”, p.125

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• But the finest music in the room is that which streams out to the ear of the spirit in many an exquisite strain from the hanging shelf of books on the opposite wall. Every volume there is an instrument which some melodist of the mind created and set vibrating with music, as a flower shakes out its perfume or a star shakes out its light. Only listen, and they soothe all care, as though the silken-soft leaves of poppies had been made vocal and poured into the ear.

  James Lane Allen

  Stars, Wall, Flower

  "A Kentucky Cardinal, Aftermath, and Other Selected Works".

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• The world of gods and spirits is truly 'nothing but' the collective unconscious inside me.

  Carl Jung

  Collective Unconscious, World, Collectives

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1973). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Psychology and religion, West and East”

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• What is essential in a work of art is that it should rise far above the realm of personal life and speak to the spirit and heart of the poet as man to the spirit and heart of mankind.

  Carl Jung

  Art, Men, Essentials

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.172, Psychology Press

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• All my writings may be considered tasks imposed from within, their source was a fateful compulsion. What I wrote were things that assailed me from within myself. I permitted the spirit that moved me to speak out.

  Carl Jung

  Writing, Speaks Out, Tasks

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• Spirit and soul is horseshit of the worst sort. Obviously there are no fairies, no Santa Clauses, no spirits. What there is, is human goals and purposes as noted by sane existentialists. But a lot of transcendentalists are utter screwballs.

  Albert Ellis

  Goal, Soul, Purpose

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• Of all writings I love only that which is written with blood. Write with blood: and you will discover that blood is spirit.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Writing, Blood, Written

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• There is always more spirit in attack than in defence.

  Livy

  Defence

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book XXVIII, section 44,

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