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Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in…
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If a serious statement is defined as one that may be made in terms of waking life, poetry will never rise to…
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The eternal gulf between being and idea can only be bridged by the rainbow of imagination.
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A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular…
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Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture.
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From whichever angle one looks at it, the application of racial theories remains a striking proof of the lowered demands of public…
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History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have…
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If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it.
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Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always…
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In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.
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The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving.
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Play is older than culture, for culture, however inadequately defined, always presupposes human society, and animals have not waited for man to…
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"The flowers have appeared in our land: the time of pruning is come: the voice of the turtle-dove is heard in our…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on.
— J. G. Holland
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Our soul, like Mary's body, is to receive God Himself if only we, like her, believe, consent and receive; if only we…
— Peter Kreeft
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The soul, like the body, accepts by practice whatever habit one wishes it to contact.
— Socrates
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The type of music that I love to sing would have to be more bluesy and jazzy and more soul-like because I…
— Thia Megia
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Knowledge exists potentially in the human soul like the seed in the soil; by learning the potential becomes actual.
— Al-Ghazali
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God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love.
— C.S. Lewis
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Only a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives.
— George Herbert
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Genuine sorrows are very tranquil in appearance in the deep bed they have dug for themselves. But, seeming to slumber, they corrode…
— Honore de Balzac
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If a serious statement is defined as one that may be made in terms of waking life, poetry will never rise to…
— Johan Huizinga
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The greatest act of faith is that which rises to your lips in total darkness together with the sacrifices, sufferings and wholehearted…
— Pio of Pietrelcina
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A tender sadness drops upon my soul, like the soft twilight dropping on the world.
— Alexander Smith
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