„Be neither insufficiently spirited nor over spirited. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.“

— Miyamoto Musashi
„There is neither spirit nor matter in the world; the stuff of the universe is spirit-matter.“
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
„Let us worship the spirit in spirit, standing on spirit. Let the foundation be spirit, the middle spirit, the culmination spirit.“
— Swami Vivekananda
„There is neither spirit nor matter in the world; the stuff of the universe is spirit-matter. No other substance but this could produce the human molecule.“
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
„"To release four hands" is used when you and the enemy are contending with the same spirit, and the issue cannot be decided. Abandon this spirit and win through an alternative resource.In large-scale strategy, when there is a "four hands" spirit, do not give up - it is man's existence. Immediately throw away this spirit and win with a technique the enemy does not expect.“
— Miyamoto Musashi
„Enemies can't break your spirit, only friends can.“
— Arundhati Roy
„The spirit is to attack quickly while the enemy is still shooting with bows or guns. The spirit is to win by "treading down" as we receive the enemy's attack.“
— Miyamoto Musashi
„Sister, motherAnd spirit of the river, spirit of the sea,Suffer me not to be separated And let my cry come unto Thee.“
— T.S. Eliot
„Prison kills your spirit, straight up. It kills your spirit. There is no creativity, there's none of that.“
— Tupac Shakur
„To Dogmatism the Spirit of Inquiry is the same as the Spirit of Evil.“
— Ambrose Bierce