Inwardness Quotes
15 quotes by 11 authors
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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
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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
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Teaching like any truly human activity emerges from one's inwardness.
— Parker J. Palmer
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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
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To recognize another's inwardness is to have seen the sacred.
— Peter Koestenbaum
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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
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The vertical and the horizontal are the extreme signs available to man for touching the beyond and his inwardness.
— Hans Arp
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.
— Seamus Heaney
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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: