Human Spirit Quotes - Page 10

• I believe that art is the highest expression of the human spirit. I believe that we yearn to transcend the merely finite and ephemeral; to participate in something mysterious and communal called 'culture' - and that this yearning is as strong in our species as the yearning to reproduce the species.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Strong, Art, Believe

  Joyce Carol Oates (2009). “The Faith of a Writer: Life, Craft, Art”, p.1, Zondervan

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• the independence of the artist is one of the great safeguards of the freedom of the human spirit.

  C. V. Wedgwood

  Artist, Independence, Spirit

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• A time comes when silence is betrayal. Even when pressed by the demands of inner truth, men do not easily assume the task of opposing their government's policy, especially in time of war. Nor does the human spirit move without great difficulty against all the apathy of conformist thought, within one's own bosom and in the surrounding world.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Betrayal, War, Moving

  Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City

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• The American Dream has become a death sentence of drudgery, consumerism, and fatalism: a garage sale where the best of the human spirit is bartered away for comfort, obedience and trinkets. It's unequivocally absurd.

  Zoltan Istvan

  Dream, Comfort, Spirit

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• The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.

  Walter Pater

  Philosophy, Culture, Spirit

  Walter Pater (2013). “The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry”, p.154, Courier Corporation

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• If in anything I have faith in something you could call the human spirit - I have faith it will always save itself at the last minute.

  Vashti Bunyan

  Have Faith, Lasts, Spirit

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I believe in the power of the human spirit.

  Bob Harper

  Believe, Spirit, Humans

  FaceBook post by Bob Harper from Oct 30, 2011

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• The dirty work at political conventions is almost always done in the grim hours between midnight and dawn. Hangmen and politicians work best when the human spirit is at its lowest ebb.

  Russell Baker

  Dirty, Government, Political

  Russell Baker (1992). “Poor Russell's almanac”

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• Many things in life inspire philanthropy, such as your faith in humanity and your belief in the human spirit to overcome.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Things In Life, Inspire, Humanity

  "Online Extra: A Talk with Oprah Winfrey". Interview with Michelle Conlin, www.bloomberg.com. November 29, 2004.

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• Not all the ravages caused by our merciless age are tangible ones. The subtler forms of destruction, those involving only the human spirit, are the most to be dreaded.

  Paul Bowles

  Age, Tangible, Spirit

  Paul Bowles (1955). “The Spider's House”

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• The torch relay is an excellent embodiment of all that the Olympic Games have come to symbolise - a celebration of the human spirit. Personally to me, it represents striving to be the best in whatever we do, never giving up despite the odds, and a commitment to health and fitness.

  Lakshmi Mittal

  Motivational, Giving Up, Commitment

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• We all find joy and radiance and a reason to move on even in the most dire of circumstances. Even in chaos and madness, theres still a beauty that comes from just the vibrancy of another human spirit.

  Ishmael Beah

  Moving, Joy, Radiance

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• Racing a marathon is a true and simple way to test the human spirit. Whether it goes perfectly or poorly you will certainly learn something about yourself and be a better person for having tackled the distance.

  Blake Russell

  Running, Distance, Simple

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• I have concluded the evident existence of God, and that my existence depends entirely on God in all the moments of my life, that I do not think that the human spirit may know anything with greater evidence and certitude.

  Rene Descartes

  Philosophy, Thinking, May

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• The deepest desire of the human spirit is to be acknowledged.

  Stephen Covey

  Life, Change, Desire

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• It's about the power of design and the power of the human spirit. It's above paying anybody to do something stupid for money like reality television does - like ambushing people.

  Genevieve Gorder

  Stupid, Reality, People

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• Only a life of goodness and honesty leaves us feeling spiritually healthy and human.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Spiritual, Honesty, Healthy

  Harold S Kushner (2011). “When All You've Ever Wanted Isn't Enough: The Search For a Life That Matters”, p.185, Pan Macmillan

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• When the concept of human spirit is understood as the mode of consciousness in which the individual feels connected to the Cosmos as a whole, it becomes clear that ecological awareness is spiritual in its deepest sense.

  Fritjof Capra

  Spiritual, Cosmos, Consciousness

  Fritjof Capra, Pier Luigi Luisi (2014). “The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision”, p.13, Cambridge University Press

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• It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward.

  Joseph Campbell

  Spirit, Prime, Function

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.7, New World Library

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• All manifestations of art are but landmarks in the progress of the human spirit toward a thing but as yet sensed and far from being possessed.

  Robert Henri

  Art, Progress, Spirit

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• Next to the human spirit the human body is the most marvelous of God's creations.

  Sterling W Sill

  Exercise, God's Creation, Body

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• Socialism of any type leads to a total destruction of the human spirit...

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Spirit, Socialism, Destruction

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Commencement address at Harvard University, June 7, 1978.

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• Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human nature.

  Wilhelm Dilthey

  Reality, Historical, Spirit

  Wilhelm Dilthey, Rudolf A. Makkreel, Frithjof Rodi (1991). “Introduction to the Human Sciences”, p.58, Princeton University Press

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• There is a geography of the human spirit, common to all peoples.

  Linda Hogan

  Spirit, Common, Geography

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• On this waterlogged landscape....are scattered palaces and hovels....It is here that the human spirit becomes perfect, and at the same time brutalised, that civilisation produces its marvels and that civilised man returns to the savage.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Men, Cities, Perfect

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