Spirit Quotes
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They may kill me, but they cannot kill my ideas. They can crush my body, but they will not be able to crush my spirit.
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I believe the main task of the spirit is to free man from his ego.
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We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of bitter suffering. But then our solitude is overcome, we are no longer alone, for we find that our innermost self is the spirit, that it is God, the indivisible. And suddenly we find ourselves in the midst of the world, yet undisturbed by its multiplicity, for our innermost soul we know ourselves to be one with all being.
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Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
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I always follow what my spirit tells me to do.
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Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself: the outward rendered expressive of the inward: the soul made incarnate: the body instinct with spirit. For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow.
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The human spirit must prevail over technology.
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Prison kills your spirit, straight up. It kills your spirit. There is no creativity, there's none of that.
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It's no accident that capitalism has brought with it progress, not merely in production but also in knowledge. Egoism and competition are, alas, stronger forces than public spirit and sense of duty.
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No man of high and generous spirit is ever willing to indulge in flattery; the good may feel affection for others, but will not flatter them.
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I see a woman may be made a fool, If she had not a spirit to resist.
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Dirty days hath September April June and November From January up to May The rain it raineth every day All the rest have thirty-one Without a blessed gleam of sun And if any of them had two-and-thirty They'd be just as wet and twice as dirty." "April hath put a spirit of youth in everything.
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Constitution is not a mere lawyers document, it is a vehicle of Life, and its spirit is always the spirit of Age.
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“I was not wholly conscious of myself, but was more keenly alive to the fire within. It was as if I were the activity, and my hands and feet were only experiments for my spirit to work upon.”
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The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal.
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Greatness of spirit is accompanied by simplicity and sincerity.
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Love is a great spirit. Everything spiritual is in between god and mortal.
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The body is the one thing you have to say goodbye to. You can hold on to your memories. You can hold on to the spirit. That's part of the package that you love and the part that comforts you.
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Madness is badness of spirit, when one seeks profit from all sources.
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A healing journey into the inner conflicts and contradictions that separate spirit from self.
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The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
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Travel ennobles the spirit and does away with our prejudices.
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The spirit of the four hobbits in 'Lord of the Rings,' I suppose I miss that.
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It's funny when you start writing an album and then recording - the songs begin to take on a spirit of their own. Once you start to perform it live, this happens even more so than in the studio. They really start to develop a personality that takes shape over time with the audience.
