Inwardness Quotes

15 quotes by 11 authors

We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world - introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably - that the best… — Walter Lippmann
Teaching, like any truly human activity, emerges from one's inwardness, for better or worse. As I teach I project the condition of my soul onto… — Parker J. Palmer
Teaching like any truly human activity emerges from one's inwardness. — Parker J. Palmer
Our equal and opposite needs for solitude and community constitute a great paradox. When it is torn apart, both of these life-giving states of being… — Parker J. Palmer
To recognize another's inwardness is to have seen the sacred. — Peter Koestenbaum
It is with art as with love: How can a man of the world,with all his distractions, keep the inwardness which an artist must possess… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The vertical and the horizontal are the extreme signs available to man for touching the beyond and his inwardness. — Hans Arp
The written word, obviously, is very inward, and when we're reading, we're thinking. It's a sort of spiritual, meditative activity. When we're looking at visual… — Joyce Carol Oates
Each man had only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself....His task was to discover his own destiny - not an arbitrary… — Hermann Hesse
A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the… — Susan Sontag
One can know worlds one has not experienced, choose a response to life that has never been offered, create an inwardness utterly strong and fruitful. — Susan Sontag
we are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason. but we cannot just walk… — Iris Murdoch
Literature was the passport to enter a larger life; that is, the zone of freedom. Literature was freedom. Especially in a time in which the… — Susan Sontag
If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness. — Seamus Heaney
The lives of most authors - even, or perhaps especially, the great ones - are necessarily a catalogue of tedious inwardness and cloistered composition. Globe-trotting… — Paul Di Filippo

Who Wrote These Inwardness Quotes

11 authors contributed a total of 15 Inwardness Quotes as follows: