#spirit

The scene was not a happy one yet we looked upon it in the cold stoical spirit of a soldier; a slight chilling pang and then a return soul and body to the enemy before us. ↗

— Knute Nelson

#body #chilling #cold #enemy #happy

Art is about expressing the true nature of the human spirit in whatever way one wishes to express it. If it is honest, it is beautiful. If it is not honest, it is obvious. ↗

— Corin Nemec

#art #beautiful #express #expressing #honest

The spirit world doesn't admit to communicating with me, so it's fairly even. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#communicating #even #fairly #me #spirit

The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned. ↗

— Gerard De Nerval

#cast #evil #generations #good #ignorance

Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#family #family life #goes #intimate #justice

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#friends #good #good writer #his #only

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his "divine service." ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#art #could #dance #dancer #divine

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#been #curative #even #every #grand

It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#few #nothing #ripeness #says #spirit

I have a notion that if you are going to be spiritually curious, you better not get cluttered up with too many material things. ↗

— Mary Oliver

#cluttered #curious #get #going #i