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Quotes About Spirit

Joy is the life of man's life.
~ Benjamin Whichcote
He (man) is both dust of earth and breath of God.
~ Billy Graham
Dead man, dead man When will you arise? Cobwebs in your mind Dust upon your eyes
~ Bob Dylan
It should be the historian's business not to belittle but to illuminate the greatness of man's spirit.
~ C. V. Wedgwood
It is the individual man in his individual freedom who can mature with his warm spirit the unripe world.
~ Christopher Fry
Perhaps this is an age when men think bravely of the human spirit; for surely they have a strange lust to lay it bare.
~ Christopher Morley
What worth was a man who could not be haunted?
~ Clive Barker
She knew that the horse, born to serve nobly, had waited in vain for someone noble to serve. His spirit knew that nobility had gone out of men.
~ D. H. Lawrence
No one can take away the freedom of a man's soul.
~ David Gemmell
If ye loved him, he must ha' been a good man.' 'Yes, he...was.' 'Then I shall do my best to honor his spirit by serving his wife.
~ Diana Gabaldon
A man without passion would be like a body without a soul. Or even more grotesque, like a soul without a body.
~ Edward Abbey
The soul of man was made to walk the skies.
~ Edward Young
I don't care if a man's theory for tomorrow is correct, I care if his spirit of today is correct.
~ Emma Goldman
A man with a soul is not like every other man.
~ Eugene Ionesco
Immature is the love of the youth, and immature his hatred of man and earth. His mind and the wings of his spirit are still tied down and heavy.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The degree and kind of a man's sexuality reach up into the ultimate pinnacle of his spirit.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
A man of spirit must not think of the word difficulty as so much as existing. Away with it!
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
God's trustiest lieutenants often lack official credentials. They may be professed atheists who are also men of honour and high public spirit.
~ George Bernard Shaw
For the atom's soul is nothing but energy. Spirit blazes in the dullest of clay. The life of every woman or man - the heart of it - is pure and holy joy.
~ George Leonard
They haven't any spirit in them - no proud dreams and no proud lusts; and a man who hasn't one or the other-Lord! What is he but funk and precautions.
~ H. G. Wells
An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions.
~ Lord Chesterfield
How cruel it must be for a man to live past his soul.
~ Lori Lansens
Man is neither mere intellect not the gross animal body, nor the heart or soul alone.
~ Mahatma Gandhi