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:
The soul may sleep and the body still be happy, but only in youth.
Lord of myself, accountable to none,
But to my conscience, and my God alone.
He ne'er is crowned with immortality
Who fears to follow where airy voices lead.
They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet
Quaff immortality and joy.
Thus God's children are immortall whiles their
Father hath anything for them to do on earth.
Thy soul's flight,
If it find heaven, must find it out to-night.
Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.