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Spirit
«The first act of awe, when man was struck with the beauty or wonder of Nature, was the first spiritual experience.»
«The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.»
Author: Thomas Hobbes
(Philosopher)
| About:
Death and dying,
Spirit
| Keywords:
dawns, disembodied, disembodied spirit, embodied
«The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which nettle us, or which we are outgrowing, or trying to reshape»
«The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law (Galatians 5:22)»
Author: Bible
| About:
Faith,
Goodness,
Kindness,
Love,
Patience,
Peace,
Self-control,
Spirit
| Keywords:
faithfulness, Galatians, gentleness, self control
«There is little of the true philosophic spirit in Aquinas. He does not, like the Platonic Socrates, set out to follow wherever the argument may lead.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Philosophy,
Spirit
| Keywords:
Aquinas, philosophic, platonic, set out, Socrates, The Argument
«The human spirit is not dead. It lives on in secret... It has come to believed that compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.-»
Author: Albert Schweitzer
(Missionary, Musician, Philosopher, Theologian)
| About:
Compassion,
Ethics,
Mankind,
Spirit
| Keywords:
attain, breadth, breadths, depth, embraces, ethics, in breadth, in secret, limit, take root
«The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Art,
Spirit
| Keywords:
appearing, spirits
«The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.»