“If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit.”
Thomas Merton (1915–1968) Priest and author
Source: Thoughts in Solitude
“The living force of his soul gained the day: on he passed far beyond the flaming walls of the world and traversed throughout in mind and spirit the immeasurable universe.”
Book I, lines 72–74 (tr. H. A. J. Munro); of Epicurus.
De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things)
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“What profit it a man if he gain the whole world but in this enterprise lose his soul?”
Philip K. Dick book The Man in the High Castle
Source: The Man in the High Castle
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
Source: 1910s, Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays http://archive.org/stream/mysticism00russuoft/mysticism00russuoft_djvu.txt (1918), Ch. 1: Mysticism and Logic
Thomas Rhys Davids (1843–1922) British scholar
T.W. Rhys-Davids: Buddhism, p.116-117, quoted in D. Keer: Ambedkar, p.522. Quoted from Elst, Koenraad (2002). Who is a Hindu?: Hindu revivalist views of Animism, Buddhism, Sikhism, and other offshoots of Hinduism. ISBN 978-8185990743
Context: We should never forget that Gautama was born and brought up a Hindu and lived and died a Hindu. His teaching, far-reaching and original as it was, and really subversive of the religion of the day, was Indian throughout. He was the greatest and wisest and best of the Hindus.
George William Russell (1867–1935) Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, and artistic painter
The Nuts of Knowledge (1903)
Context: We must pass like smoke or live within the spirit's fire;
For we can no more than smoke unto the flame return
If our thought has changed to dream, our will unto desire,
As smoke we vanish though the fire may burn.
Chris Cornell (1964–2017) American singer-songwriter, musician
Ann Wilson talking about Chris Cornell at the press room of the Rock and Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, on April 14, 2018. ** Ann Wilson of Heart speaks backstage at Rock Hall induction, YouTube, April 14, 2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjKO41QmGX8,
Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936) 19th-20th century Spanish writer and philosopher
Matt. xvi. 26
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), III : The Hunger of Immortality
Jean Paul (1763–1825) German novelist
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 19.