Quotes about Spirit

The soul that loves and suffers is in the sublime state.

The infinite space that each man carries within himself, wherein despairingly he contrasts the movement of his spirit with the acts of his life, is and overpowering thing.

The shadow of the passions of the moment transversed this grand and gentle spirit occupied with eternal things.

A man's eye reveals his quality. It shows how much of a man there is within us. We declare ourselves by the light that gleams under our eyebrows. Petty spirits merely wink; great spirits emit a flash of lightning.

A certain amount of dreaming is good, like a narcotic in discreet doses. It lulls to sleep the fevers of the mind at labor, which are sometimes severe, and produces in the spirit a soft and fresh vapor which corrects the over-harsh contours of pure thought, fills in gaps here and there, binds together and rounds off the angles of the ideas. But

The men of yesterday are spectres; those of to-morrow are forms. The eye of the spirit distinguishes them but obscurely. The embryonic work of the future is one of the visions of philosophy.

God will reward you, he said. You must be an angel since you care for flowers. I'm no angel, she replied. I'm the devil, but it's all the same to me.

Death is the entrance into the great light.

The novel is born not of the theoretical spirit but of the spirit of humor.

How does light enter a person? Through the open door of love.

We love and live in power; it is the spirit's end. Mind must subdue; to conquer is its life.

God the Father is in God the Son; and the Holy Spirit is in the Son and in the Father. That is interbeing.