Age Quote by Roger Lowenstein

There were successful ways of expressing the attitude and less successful ways. I think that spirit is very much alive today actually. That's what…

— David Salle

We live in an age fit for heroes. No time has ever offered such perils or prizes... The test of this century will be…

— Vince Lombardi

...is the spirit of the people an infallible, a permanent reliance? ...the spirit of the times may alter, will alter. Our rulers will become…

— Thomas Jefferson

This spirit [of Party], unfortunately, is inseperable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human Mind. It exists under…

— George Washington

Men of great spirit are at high risk at a time when small souls rule the world.

— Robert Silverberg

Classical heroes are usually much larger than life. They're not quite human beings. They're somehow larger than human scale.

— Lloyd Alexander

We hunger for nobility: the rare words and acts that harmonize simplicity and truth.

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

To the modern spirit nothing is, or can be rightly known, except relatively and under conditions.

— Walter Pater

Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition.

— Riccardo Muti

“The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas. Its hard absolute optimism is repulsive…

— Joseph Conrad

At every crossway on the path that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the…

— Maurice Maeterlinck

“Each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand mediocre minds appointed to guard the past.”

— Maurice Maeterlinck