Walter Lippmann Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.

  Walter Lippmann

  Men, Soul, Purpose

• You don't have to preach honesty to men with creative purpose. Let a human being throw the engines of his soul into the making of something, and the instinct of workmanship will take care of his honesty.

  Walter Lippmann

  Honesty, Men, Creative

• There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to exist for many centuries and are still in being though they have had no help from the traveler in solving their problems.

  Walter Lippmann

  Travel, Discovery, Soul

• The emancipated woman has to fight something worse than the crusted prejudices of her uncles; she has to fight the bewilderment in her own soul.

  Walter Lippmann

  Uncles, Fighting, Soul

  Walter Lippmann, William Edward Leuchtenburg (1961). “Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest”, p.125, Univ of Wisconsin Press

• It was in the recognition that there is in each man a final essence, that is to say an immortal soul which only God can judge, that a limit was set upon the dominion of men over men.

  Walter Lippmann

  Men, Essence, Judging

• Every fairly intelligent person is aware that the price of respectability is a muffled soul bent on the trivial and the mediocre.

  Walter Lippmann

  Intelligent, Soul, Bent

  Walter Lippmann, Julien C. Sprott (2015). “Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest”, p.137, University of Wisconsin Pres

• It is all very well to talk about being the captain of your soul. It is hard, and only a few heroes, saints, and geniuses have been the captains of their souls for any extended period of their lives.

  Walter Lippmann

  Hero, Ambition, Soul

  Walter Lippmann (1960). “A Preface to Morals”, p.14, Transaction Publishers

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