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:
For the gods approve
The depth, and not the tumult, of the soul.
But who would force the soul tilts with a straw
Against a champion cased in adamant.
'Tis immortality to die aspiring,
As if a man were taken quick to heaven.
Tonight, let us exchange every part of our bodies and every space of our souls with each other.
Ninety per cent of most magic merely consists of knowing one extra fact.
Immortality is the only thing which doesn't tolerate being postponed.
'Tis true; 'tis certain; man though dead retains
Part of himself; the immortal mind remains.
What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul?
The production of souls is the secret of unfathomable depth.
The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home,
Rests and expatiates in a life to come.