#spirits

It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#act #always #arranges #evil #free

Through all of history mankind has ingested psychedelic substances. Those substances exist to put you in touch with spirits beyond yourself, with the creator, with the creative impulse of the planet. ↗

— Ray Manzarek

#creative #creator #exist #history #impulse

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

In my opinion it's not about gay or straight or bi, we're attracted to spirits, whatever body they're in. There are other reasons too, but that's how I see it. ↗

— Dana Plato

#attracted #body #gay #how #i

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#always #encountered #mediocre #minds #opposition

Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them. ↗

— Barbara Deming

#cannot #heal #only #punishment #spirits

Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#belong #eternal #eternal world #half #humans

The dreams which reveal the supernatural are promises and messages that God sends us directly: they are nothing but His angels, His ministering spirits , who usually appear to us when we are in a great predicament. ↗

— Paracelsus

#appear #directly #dreams #god #great

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#dawn #day #enlighten #evil #generally

In the twelve months immediately preceding the outbreak; of war, the quantity of spirits, both domestic and imported released for sale in Canada, amounted to over three and a half million proof gallons. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

#both #canada #domestic #half #immediately