Our world, so we see and hear on all sides, is drowning in materialism, commercialism, consumerism. But the problem is not really… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
The human spirit sublimates the impulses it thwarts; a healthy sex life mitigates the lust for other sports. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have a concept of Naples that is not so much of a city, per se, but rather an ingredient of the… — Luciano De Crescenzo Copy Share Image
Ghost stories are always listened to and well received in private, but pitilessly disavowed in public. For my own part, ignorant as… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“From the structure of language comes the explanation of why the human spirit is condemned to an odyssey - why it first… — Jürgen Habermas Copy Share Image
Ninety-nine percent of the time humans have lived on this planet we've lived in tribes, groups of 12 to 36 people. Only… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Liberalism is a scourge. It destroys the human spirit. It destroys prosperity. It assigns sameness to everybody. And wherever I find it,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The world is part of us, and we are part of the world. Even through the smallest acts, we can demonstrate that.… — Clemantine Wamariya Copy Share Image
In Philadelphia, I inadvertently came upon an edition of Robert Ingersoll's Essays and Lectures. This was an exciting discovery; his atheism confirmed… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
To me, science is an expression of the human spirit, which reaches every sphere of human culture. It gives an aim and… — Isidor Isaac Rabi Copy Share Image
And a friend of mine in the Christys, we used to sit up at night and talk and read and wonder if… — Barry McGuire Copy Share Image
“Only the human spirit can act with volition and consciously change itself; it is the only thing in all creation that is… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Dancing on Dewdrops" was written to be a pleasant reading experience that flows from one section to the next. It expresses the… — Mark John Terranova Copy Share Image
“We've all heard about people who've exploded beyond the limitations of their conditions to become examples of the unlimited power of the… — Anthony Robbins Copy Share Image
“Like literature, music can overwhelm you with sudden emotion, can move you to absolute sorrow or ecstasy; like literature, painting has the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
the independence of the artist is one of the great safeguards of the freedom of the human spirit. — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
“How did they stand it? But they knew nothing else and simple affection is sufficient to sustain the human spirit amid shared… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Life is fury, he'd thought. Fury — sexual, Oedipal, political, magical, brutal — drives us to our finest heights and coarsest depths.… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
“The flight away from self to God is not a "forgetting self" in the sense that man thereby loses himself. Rather, in… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
There is always the possibility of beauty where there is an unsealed human eye; of music where there is an unstopped human… — Charles Henry Parkhurst Copy Share Image
Will the things that are being lost - the wilderness, the plants and animals, the skills, and all the others - leave… — David Ehrenfeld Copy Share Image
The lessons of history, confirmed by the evidence immediately before me, show conclusively that continued dependence upon relief induces a spiritual disintegration… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
