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:
A fully developed psychology will not exist until reincarnation is accepted as a fact.
In Western thought, the body holds the soul; in Indian thought, the soul holds the body.
The growth of philosophy is the story of man's spiritual life.
May we be satisfied with nothing that shall not have in it something of immortality.
Man holds an inward talk with his self alone, which it behooves him to regulate well.
Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.
The magician depends for the success of his art upon the credulity of the people.
And now I think about it, I never really wanted to live forever. I just want to live well.
No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality.