The spirit is higher than nature. Hegel.
The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; 35 but a wounded spirit who can bear? Bible.
The spirit of moderation should be the spirit of a lawgiver. Montesquieu.
The spirit of poesy is the morning light, which makes the statue of Memnon sound. Novalis.
The spirit only can teach. Emerson.
The spirit was long ago liberated from the blind law of nature, and the task it is called to now is to unfold itself with freedom and clearness in the sunlight, i.e., in its own light now at length conscious of itself. Ed.
The spiritual artist too is born blind, and does 40 not, like certain other creatures, receive sight in nine days, but far later—perhaps never. Carlyle.
The spiritual is ever the inner in a man becoming outer, the invisible becoming visible, the supernatural becoming natural, the infinite becoming finite, and the eternal veiling itself in the guise of time; never an emancipation from the flesh, but ever an incarnation in flesh. Ed.
The spiritual is higher than the external; the spiritual cannot be externally authenticated. Hegel.
The spiritual is the parent and first cause of the practical. Carlyle.