Jules Verne Quotes

We get so intellectual that we forget that we're physical creatures.

Some men spend their lives watching bees and ants, noting down the habits of these insects; my pleasure is to watch the human mind, noting how unselfish instincts rise to the surface and sink back again, making way for selfish instincts, each equally necessary, for the world would perish were it to become entirely selfish or entirely unselfish.

The ordinary man is ruined by the flesh lusting against the spirit; the scholar by the spirit lusting too much against the flesh.

'Six Feet Under' was about repressing our deepest, most primal impulses, and 'True Blood' is about giving full sway to them all the time. In a way they are like yin and yang.

Twelve-step promotes spirituality, not religion. It gives a practical, day-to-day spirituality that tells me what I can and cannot control. There is room to be imperfect and to be someone who struggles to find God.

Mind and body obstruct one another's pleasures.

Soul is the central point of spiritual discipline.

Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.

Inside each of us, there is the seed of both good and evil. It's a constant struggle as to which one will win. And one cannot exist without the other.

Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.

The cultivation of the ego must recognize bounds in the lives of states as in private life, in order not to be reduced to absurdity.

Economic man and sensual man are not suppressible.

I'm a culinary gangsta with a very spiritual side, so when I was introduced to the 'spiritual gangster' line, I had to have it.

You need tremendous spirituality to stop yourself falling into the abyss.

Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.

Even the things we are certain about are only an illusion. We are born with a female side and a male side, and these two sides are always fighting and challenging each other. This is why anything we want to do, we have the other side of telling us not to do it, to be careful about it.

Two people live within me. One's a very savvy businessperson; the other's a party girl.

Everybody has a spiritual body. Everybody has a physical body, and so your spiritual body is the stuff that holds all of your emotions like your body holds your organs, your food, your muscles, your water. Your spiritual body holds your emotional state and your mental state.

In the recovery world, it's a higher power that helps you. You have to turn your life over to something greater. Anytime I tried to control my life, I had screwed it up.

I think, on any given day, somebody could help out a homeless person and cuss out somebody that cut them off in traffic, and I think that everybody has that inside them: it's just how you live that balance - so I think everybody is 'Wretched and Divine.'

I believe we are all dual beings. Some cultures actually believe we have two souls.

All religions teach that two opposite forces act upon us and the human endeavour consists in a series of eternal rejections and acceptances.

God is in my head, but the devil is in my pants.

We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice.

Everybody is God. Everybody is the devil. And if you don't realize you have both parts, that's what really causes problems.