spirit quotes

• What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit. (John Updike) [art/spirit]
• Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall. (Joseph Addison) [pride/destruction/spirit]
• The sword conquered for a while, but the spirit conquers for ever! (Sholem Asch) [spirit]
• The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs. (Francis Bacon) [genius/spirit/proverbs]
• There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit. ( Napoleon I) [spirit/willpower/spirit]
• One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself. (Claude M. Bristol) [gold/spirit]
• The one who count are those persons who-though they may be of little renown-respond to and are responsible for the continuation of the living spirit. (Martin Buber) [spirit]
• Our works are the mirror wherein the spirit first sees its natural lineaments, Hence, too, the folly of that impossible precept, Know thyself; till it be translated into this partially possible one, know what thou canst work at. (Thomas Carlyle) [spirit]
• For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity. (Joyce Cary) [evil/spirit/creation/change]
• Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [facts/facts/spirit/reality]
• It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances. (Marcus Cicero) [spirit]
• The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory. (Marcus Cicero) [spirit/strongly/love]
• The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas. Its hard absolute optimism is repulsive to my mind by the menace of fanaticism and intolerance it contains. No doubt one should smile at these things; but, imperfect Esthete, I am no better Philosopher. All claim to special righteousness awakens in me that scorn and anger from which a philosophical mind should be free. (Joseph Conrad) [spirit//absolute/mind]
• Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration. (Charles Dickens) [housing/spirit]
• Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust. (Emily Dickinson) [death/dialogue/spirit/dust]
• He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust. (Emily Dickinson) [words/spirit/more/dust]
• He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew. (John Dryden) [spirit/sun/morning]
• The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking. (Isadora Duncan) [type/soul & body/spirit/school]
• Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [men/spirit]
• The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [foundations/matter/spirit]
• The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [spirit/hatred/selfishness]
• Dear to us are those who love us... but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit, and urge us to new and unattempted performances. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [love/life/spirit]
• Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [life/spirit]
• The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone who thinks and feels with us, and who, though distant is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [cities/spirit/garden]
• Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there. (Emma Goldman) [spirit]
• None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events. (Vaclav Havel) [spirit/surprise/right]
• For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it. (Patrick Henry) [spirit/truth/provide]
• It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush. (George Herbert) [spirit]
• In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified. (Hermann Hesse) [spirit/creation]
• Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit. (Victor Hugo) [spirit]
• Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances; but insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Revolt is Masaniello, who led the Neapolitan insurgents in 1647; but insurrection is Spartacus. Insurrection is a thing of the spirit, revolt is a thing of the stomach. (Victor Hugo) [phenomenon/thing/spirit/thing]

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