Faith & Spirituality Sayings

357 sayings found from 357 authors

The white man is a liar. He has no heart. He has no soul. He has no honor.

— Sitting Bull Unknown
Biblical

I have prayed to the Great Spirit. I have asked for guidance. I have asked for strength.

— Geronimo Unknown
Biblical

The care of souls cannot belong to the civil magistrate.

— John Locke 1689
Biblical

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.

— Voltaire 1767
Biblical

Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions are the voice of the body.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1762
Biblical

The imagination is the most lordly faculty of the soul.

— David Hume 1739-1740
Biblical

The State is the divine idea as it exists on earth.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1837 (posthumous)
Biblical

The highest good of the mind is the knowledge of God, and the highest virtue of the mind is to know God.

— Baruch Spinoza 1677
Biblical

The soul is the mirror of an indestructible universe.

— Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1714
Biblical

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures.

— Francis Bacon 1625
Biblical

To be a human being is to be in a state of eternal becoming, and that is why no one can capture himself in a definition.

— Soren Kierkegaard 1849
Biblical

The world is hell, and men are on the one hand the tormented souls and on the other the devils in it.

— Arthur Schopenhauer 1851 (posthumous publication of some parts)
Biblical

Bad faith is a lie to oneself.

— Jean-Paul Sartre 1943
Biblical

The soul is the prison of the body.

— Michel Foucault 1975
Biblical

An honest confession is good for the soul, but bad for the reputation.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein 1977 (published posthumously)
Biblical

I am not a Christian. I do not believe in God or immortality.

— Bertrand Russell 1927
Biblical

The world is beautiful, and outside there is no salvation.

— Albert Camus 1939
Biblical

The pleasure of the soul is superior to that of the body.

— Epicurus c. 300 BCE
Biblical

Every soul, the philosopher says, is unwillingly deprived of truth.

— Marcus Aurelius c. 161-180 AD
Biblical

You are not your body, you are a soul.

— Epictetus c. 108 AD
Biblical
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