Poetry, plays, novels, music, they are the cry of the human spirit trying to understand itself and make sense of our world. — Laura Elliott Copy Share Image
History is various and sinuous and no essential part of the human spirit is ever wholly absent from it. — Benedetto Croce Copy Share Image
The most abundant, least used, and most abused resource in the world is human spirit and ingenuity. — Dee Hock Copy Share Image
The purpose of art is nothing less than the upliftment of the human spirit. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The real enemy is the man who tries to mold the human spirit so that it will not dare to spread its… — Abraham Flexner Copy Share Image
“Socialism of any type leads to a total destruction of the human spirit and to a leveling of mankind into death.” — Alexander Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The plundering of the human spirit by the market place is paralleled by the plundering of the earth by capital. — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
I don't want people to feel sorry for me or pity me - I want people to know that what got me… — Katie Piper Copy Share Image
Greece is the home of the gods; they may have died but their presence still makes itself felt. The gods were of… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Students read for tests and because their parents ask them to, but I think it's very important to tell children that you… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image
The notebooks of Paul Brunton represent the acme of wisdom on the nature of human spirituality. Every serious student of this subject… — Kenneth Ring Copy Share Image
“As the flesh gets in the way of our ideals, we regulate ourselves unto enslavement and inhumanity. The human spirit then dies… — Earl Warhus Copy Share Image
Music is the last true voice of the human spirit. It can go beyond language, beyond age, and beyond color straight to… — Ben Harper Copy Share Image
It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The greatest Marxist writer of the twentieth century, paradoxically, is also one of the greatest examples of the independence of the human… — James Joll Copy Share Image
“Forgiveness is truly the grace by which we enable another person to get up, and get up with dignity, to begin anew.… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
“I believe in one thing: the human spirit is immortal and indestructible. In the beyond there could be anything, it is of… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
Boredom is the most sublime of all human emotions because it expresses the fact that the human spirit, in a certain sense,… — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
“But—for good reasons rooted deeply in the nature of the person and of personal relationships—his preferred way is to speak, to communicate:… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Humans like stories. Humans need stories. Stories are good. Stories work. Story clarifies and captures the essence of the human spirit. Story,… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
It is not a struggle merely of economic theories, or forms of government or of military power. At issue is the true… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
To me, the grotesque is like a sonic manifestation of reality. I don't know how you could look out onto our world… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
The way to solve the conflict between human values and technology needs is not to run away from technology. That's impossible. The… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“I don't pretend to understand the mystery of love, but this time it was more than sex, more than using a woman's… — Daniel Keyes Copy Share Image
“For if there are (at a venture) seventy-six different times all ticking in the mind at once, how many different people are… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I recall a frosty sunny morning in March when I was sitting in the interrogator's office. He was asking his customary crude… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“I looked around the garden, the sun feeling warm on my back. "So why are you here? I would think you'd want… — Karen White 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
“A man's character is only formed after the impressions of childhood and early youth have become blended with the indefinable and hidden… — Miklós Bánffy Copy Share Image
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
“With the veil removed by the rending of Jesus' flesh, with nothing on God's side to prevent us from entering, why do… — A.W. Tozer Copy Share Image