Spirituality Quotes
Alice Bailey, Marianne Williamson, Helena Blavatsky and Eckhart Tolle account for most of the top entries, so the page leans toward modern and esoteric writing. The best-sourced pieces are less solemn. Woody Allen says he does not want to achieve immortality through his work but through not dying, and Henry Miller, in Sexus (1949), counts sex among the nine reasons for reincarnation.
Two flags. “Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology” is credited to Larry Niven and marked misattributed. “Corporations have neither bodies to kick nor souls to damn” is credited to Andrew Jackson and disputed, which says more about how the topic tag was applied than about spirituality.
Most quoted on spirituality:
The superior man loves his soul; the inferior man loves his property.
The soul, secured in her existence, smiles
At the drawn dagger, and defies its point.
Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.
The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities.
I am mistress of all the sciences. I go so far beyond all else that my work is called magic.
For of the soule the bodie forme doth take;
For the soule is forme, and doth the bodie make.
The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.