Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admirable when it sparkles in the setting of a modest… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Heroism is latent in every human soul - However humble or unknown, they (the veterans) have renounced what are accounted pleasures and… — Joshua Chamberlain Copy Share Image
A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul,… — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
“Millions cheer the warrior spilling blood across the ring while the one who stands for peace is ridiculed and shamed. Must hearts… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Darwin, Marx, and Freud meet. They may have understood other things, but the human soul, and in particular the soul of Culture-man,… — Francis Parker Yockey Copy Share Image
Religion and science are the two wings upon which man's intelligence can soar into the heights, with which the human soul can… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
“Extreme intelligence is accused of being as foolish as extreme lack of it; only moderation is good. The majority have laid this… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Walking was not fast enough, so we ran. Running was not fast enough, so we galloped. Galloping was not fast enough, so… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Like an explorer returned from a distant planet or another dimension, Suki Kim has many extraordinary tales to tell, among them how… — Carlos Eire Copy Share Image
“Old age. All the facial detail is visible; all the traces life has left there are to be seen. The face is… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
“We find a model for learning how to live in stories about heroism. The heroic quest is about saying yes to yourself… — Carol S. Pearson Copy Share Image
“At the conclusion of all our studies we must try once again to experience the human soul as soul, and not just… — Melvin Konner Copy Share Image
“Then your tail will divide and shrink until it becomes what the people on earth call a pair of shapely legs. But… — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
“Against the new leviathan, whether in the guise of universal suffrage, democracy, or of an equally fraudulent triumphant proletariat, he (Kierkegaard) pitted… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
“Does evil come from inside ,from the dark depths of the human soul or does it come from outside ,from the objective… — Alija Izetbegović Copy Share Image
One whose soul does not wander in the expanses, one who does not seek the light of truth and goodness with all… — Abraham Isaac Kook Copy Share Image
“As Lord David Cecil has said: “The jargon of the philosophy of progress taught us to think that the savage and primitive… — Dorothy Sayers Copy Share Image
“Around his celestial home Indra had flung a vast net—a web stretching out infinitely in all directions. Each vertex, or node, of… — Stephen Cope Copy Share Image
“In that way Vinteuil's phrase, like some theme, say, in Tristan, which represents to us also a certain acquisition of sentiment, has… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“What would you think of an engineer who expounded the art of flying without revealing the secrets of the engine and propeller?… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
I have increasingly become conversant with Pythagoras' and Goethe's idea of a primordial music, not perceptible to the sensuous ear, but sounding… — Bruno Walter Copy Share Image
“WHAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT WAS BONDING. Bonding is one of the most basic and foundational ideas in life and the universe.… — Henry Cloud Copy Share Image
“She held the moth to the light. It was nearer brown than yellow,and she remembered having seen some like it in the… — Gene Stratton-Porter Copy Share Image
“I do not know why I have such a fancy for this little café. It's dirty and sad, sad. It's not as… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
This was the first time that he has ever looked into the labyrinth of the human soul. He was very far from… — Halldór Laxness Copy Share Image
“Human nature presents human minds with a puzzle which they have not yet solved and may never succeed in solving, for all… — Arnold Joseph Toynbee Copy Share Image
We ask God to endow human souls with justice so that they may be fair and may strive to provide for the… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
“For one who sets himself to look at all earnestly, at all in purpose toward truth, into the living eyes of a… — james agee Copy Share Image
There are three points of doctrine the belief of which forms the foundation of all morality. The first is the existence of… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other. Every serious… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
“In his Dialogue "Timaeus" Plato had a demiurge to create the globe-shaped world according to musical laws, including the human soul. Fifteen… — Harry Mulisch Copy Share Image
“The entire life of the human soul is mere motions in the shadows. We live in a twilight of consciousness, never in… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
School is a building that has four walls-with tomorrow inside. Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. There… — Ferdinand Foch Copy Share Image
“The human soul enjoys these rare, classical periods, but, apart from them, we are seldom single or unique; we keep company in… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
