„Let us worship the spirit in spirit, standing on spirit. Let the foundation be spirit, the middle spirit, the culmination spirit.“

— Swami Vivekananda
„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
„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
„There are various kinds of spirit involved in letting go the hilt.There is the spirit of winning without a sword. There is also the spirit of holding the long sword but not winning. The various methods cannot be expressed in writing. You must train well.“
— Miyamoto Musashi
„To Dogmatism the Spirit of Inquiry is the same as the Spirit of Evil.“
— Ambrose Bierce
„The greatest, strongest, mightiest plea for the church of God in the world is the existence of the Spirit of God in its midst, and the works of the Spirit of God are the true evidences of Christianity. They say miracles are withdrawn, but the Holy Spirit is the standing miracle of the church of God to-day.“
— Charles Spurgeon
„The reality of spirit-matter is inevitably translated into and confirmed by a structure of the spirit.“
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
„There is neither spirit nor matter in the world; the stuff of the universe is spirit-matter.“
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin