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:
He who cannot bridle his own lower soul, how can he purify the same of others.
Theological anthropology is a lot simpler when humans are the only ones with souls.
I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted.
My entire soul is a cry, and all my work the commentary on that cry.
The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it.
So do not speak to me of souls when you have never seen one, man.
I will hew great windows, wonderful windows, measureless windows, for my soul.