Within this wall of flesh
There is a soul counts thee her creditor.
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:
First rule of magic: Don't let anyone know your real name. Names have power.
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
The muse does not allow the praise-deserving hero to die: she enthrones him in the heavens.
An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave;
Legions of angels can't confine me there.
Evolution ever climbing after some ideal good
And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud.