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325 Human Spirit quotes by 271 unique authors

The only sin is ugliness, and if we believed this with all our being, all other activities of the human spirit could be left to… — Herbert Read
I was an optimist, a great champion of the human spirit. And I lost that for a time. I feel like I've regained a bit… — Jude Law
We are all capable of living lives characterized by great joy. Within each of us is an amazing human spirit that is strong enough to… — Salle Merrill Redfield
I'm a writer of faith who worries about the intolerance of religion. I look at the past and fear we haven't learned from it. I… — Julianna Baggott
Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human nature. — Wilhelm Dilthey
Language is wild - you can't fence it or tell it what to do - and it's the same with people. Even under the worst… — Jay Griffiths
Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never,… — John Grierson
It may seem unfashionable to say so, but historians should seize the imagination as well as the intellect. History is, in a sense, a story,… — Peter Ackroyd
Good poetry is like effective prayer, it feeds the human spirit, it nourishes, it puts us in touch with forces far greater than ourselves — Lorna Goodison
The search for truth is, as it always has been, the noblest expression of the human spirit. Man's insatiable desire for knowledge about himself, about… — Raymond B. Fosdick
The principal hindrance to the advancement of the kingdom of God is greed. It is the chief obstacle to heaven-sent revival. It seems that when… — O. S. Hawkins
Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit, we cannot flower and grow without it. — Jess Lair
And so when we talk about intangible values remember that they cannot be separated from the others. The conservation of waters, forests, soils, and wildlife… — Sigurd F. Olson
The force that propels the human spirit on the clear way forward and upward is the abstract spirit. — Wassily Kandinsky
Collecting at its best is very far from mere acquisitiveness; it may become one of the most humanistic of occupations, seeking to illustrate by the… — Arthur Davison Ficke
The human spirit can be indomitable and it is this rare quality that is not at all to be expected that makes survivors of us… — Martha Gellhorn
We have focused only on the negatives, and not enough on incredible stories of the human spirit and of rebirth and rebuilding. That's equally important… — Steve Perry
We are not here for the sake of possessions, or of power. Or of happiness, but we are here to transfigure the divine out of… — Walther Rathenau
Truth is a free creation of the human spirit, that never would exist at all if we did not generate it ourselves. — Rudolf Steiner
The greatest love of all is happening to me.. So goes the popular song. It's a great song. It speaks to the heart, and deeply.… — Robert J. White
The visual arts must communicate to the human spirit, forcing individuals to reflect on themselves and their existence beyond their own self-interest. — Dean Mitchell
Creativity is dynamic, it asserts life, frees the human spirit, conquers mental lassitude and illness, and makes real the outrageous potential of the universal imagination. — Robert Genn
As we, the world, and the way we live have become more complex, we've moved further away from living in alignment with our human spirit… — Lauren Mackler
Although we are necessarily concerned, in a chronicle of events, with physical action by the light of day, history suggests that the human spirit wanders… — Joan Lindsay
Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is… — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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