The spirit can assert itself only through the medium of…

Art is the distillate of life, the winnowed result of the experience of a people, the record of the joyous adventure of the creative…

— Lawren Harris

Clear moments are so short. There is much more darkness. More ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form.

— Adam Zagajewski

In recent years my understanding of God had evolved into increasingly remote abstractions. I'd come to think of God in terms like Divine Reality,…

— Sue Monk Kidd

The patterns of activity of neurons in sensory areas can be altered by patterns of attention. Experience coupled with attention leads to physical changes…

— Michael Merzenich

Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise

— John Milton

We have no clear ideas of the agency of [demonic] spirits, nor is it necessary. The Scripture says little to satisfy our curiosity; but…

— John Newton

In history as it comes to be written, there is usually some Spirit of the Age which historians can define, but the shape of…

— Joseph Wood Krutch

It is not the child as a physical but as a psychic being that can provide a strong impetus to the betterment of mankind.…

— Maria Montessori

“Everything we perceive to be solid and static is made up of almost entirely empty space.”

— Joseph P. Kauffman

I am devoting my lecture in this seminar to a discussion of the possibility that we are now entering a Jewish century, a time…

— Martin A. Siegel

The fundamental principle [of settlement work] remains: that people shall take up their residence in industrial communities, giving what they may have of public…

— Lillian Wald

Every philosophy is complete in itself and, like a genuine work of art, contains the totality. Just as the works of Apelles and Sophocles,…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The history of institutions is often a history of deception and illusions; for their virtue depends on the ideas that produce and on the…

— Lord Acton

Youre always going to have some individual incidents that arent going to show off the Ryder Cup in the true form and spirit that…

— Tom Kite

A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if…

— Daniel Pinchbeck