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:
Don't gain the world and lose your soul
Wisdom is better than silver and gold.
Lord of himself, though not of lands;
And having nothing, yet hath all.
A happy soul, that all the way
To heaven hath a summer’s day.
When the good man yields his breath
(For the good man never dies).
The soul aspiring pants its source to mount,
As streams meander level with their fount.
Thy thoughts to nobler meditations give,
And study how to die, not how to live.
I will suppose that all humankind have souls, a condition which, when sober, I do not hold.
A man can be compelled to do anything, but his soul cannot be forced.
The soul is the human being considered as having a value in itself.
Gravity is the ballast of the soul, which keeps the mind steady.
There is a remedy for every wrong and a satisfaction for every soul.