Spirit Quotes - Page 9

• Spirit is like the wind, in that we can't see it but can see its effects, which are profound.

  Jimmy Carter

  Wind, Profound, Effects

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• Caring for others creates the spirit of a nation.

  Pat Nixon

  Caring, Care, Nations

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• To pursue science is not to disparage the things of the spirit. In fact, to pursue science rightly is to furnish the framework on which the spirit may rise.

  Vannevar Bush

  May, Facts, Classroom

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• There are no gods here, no ghosts and spirits in America, there are no angels in America, no spiritual past, no racial past, there's only the political, and the decoys and the ploys to maneuver around the inescapable battle of politics.

  Tony Kushner

  Spiritual, Angel, Past

  Angels in America: Millennium Approaches act 3, sc. 2 (1992)

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• The reality of our century is technology: the invention, construction and maintenance of machines. To be a user of machines is to be of the spirit of this century. Machines have replaced the transcendental spiritualism of past eras.

  Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

  Past, Technology, Reality

  László Moholy-Nagy, Renate Heyne, Hattula Moholy-Nagy, Herbert Molderings (2009). “Moholy-Nagy: the photograms : catalogue raisonné”, Hatje Cantz Pub

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• Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the consciousness is absorbed, the greater the freedom of the spirit behind

  Bridget Riley

  Focus, Attention, Veils

  Bridget Riley, Richard Shiff, PaceWildenstein (Firm) (2004). “Bridget Riley: recent paintings : September 24-October 23, 2004”

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• Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit.

  Mark Rothko

  Art, Anecdotes

  Mark Rothko, Miguel López-Remiro (2006). “Writings on Art”, p.45, Yale University Press

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• Our country, if that is what we want, can now permanently radiate love, understanding, the power of the spirit and of ideas. It is precisely this glow that we can offer as our specific contribution to international politics.

  Vaclav Havel

  Country, Ideas, Understanding

  New Year's Address to the Nation, January 1, 1990.

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• Take risks ... be willing to put your mind and your spirit, your time and your energy, your stomach and your emotions on the line. To search for a safe place, to search for an end to a rainbow, is to search for a place that you will hate once you find it. The soul must be nourished along with the bank account and the resume. The best nourishment for any soul is to create your own risks.

  Jim Lehrer

  Hate, Rainbow, Soul

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• What they're not doing is marketing the Dead Kennedys in the spirit of what the band stood for.

  Jello Biafra

  Marketing, Band

  Interview with Scott Thill, www.popmatters.com. January 24, 2001.

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• The most abundant, least used, and most abused resource in the world is human spirit and ingenuity.

  Dee Hock

  Inspiration, World, Resources

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• It is useless, sisters, for you to attempt the duties of your exalted callings . . . without the constant companionship of the Spirit of God.

  Susa Young Gates

  Sister, Calling, Useless

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• The road will never swallow you. The river of destiny will always overcome evil. May you understand your fate. Suffering will never destroy you, but will make you stronger. Success will never confuse you of scatter your spirit, but will make you fly higher into the good sunlight. Your life will always surprise you.

  Ben Okri

  Fate, Destiny, Rivers

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• The mission of the law is not to oppress persons and plunder them of their property, even though the law may be acting in a philanthropic spirit. Its purpose is to protect persons and property.... If you exceed this proper limit -- if you attempt to make the law religious, fraternal, equalizing, philanthropic, industrial, or artistic -- you will then be lost in uncharted territory, in vagueness and uncertainty, in a forced utopia or, even worse, in a multitude of utopias, each striving to seize the law and impose it on you.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Religious, Law, Acting

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• I have so much faith in the general government of the world by Providence that I can hardly conceive a transaction of such momentous importance [as the framing of the Constitution] ... should be suffered to pass without being in some degree influenced, guided, and governed by that omnipotent, omnipresent, and beneficent Ruler in whom all inferior spirits live and move and have their being.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Moving, Government, Degrees

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• Almighty God, we make our earnest prayer that
  Thou wilt incline the hearts of the citizens
  to cultivate a spirit of subordination and
  obedience to government; to entertain a
  brotherly affection and love for one another and
  for their fellow-citizens of the United States at large.

  George Washington

  Prayer, Heart, Government

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• Let me now warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party. The common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it. It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one part against another. In governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged.

  George Washington

  Wise, Party, Government

  George Washington’s "Farewell Address", oll.libertyfund.org. September 19, 1796.

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• I try to photograph people's spirits and thoughts. As to the soul-taking by the photographer, I don't feel I take away, but rather that the sitter and I give to each other. It becomes an act of mutual participation.

  Yousuf Karsh

  Photography, People, Giving

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• My chief joy is to photograph the great in heart, in mind, and in spirit, whether they be famous or humble.

  Yousuf Karsh

  Heart, Humble, Joy

  Yousuf Karsh (1969). “Yousuf Karsh”

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• When I think of death, I only regret that I will not be able to see this beautiful country anymore unless the Indians are right and my spirit will walk here after I'm gone.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Beautiful, Country, Regret

  Maria Costantino, Georgia O'Keeffe (1994). “Georgia O'Keeffe”, Smithmark Pub

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• When a school introduces and trains each child of society into membership within such a little community, saturating him with the spirit of service, and providing him with the instruments of effective self-direction, we shall have the deepest and best guaranty of a larger society which is worthy, lovely, and harmonious

  John Dewey

  Children, School, Self

  John Dewey (2013). “The School and Society and The Child and the Curriculum”, p.29, University of Chicago Press

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• But the finest music in the room is that which streams out to the ear of the spirit in many an exquisite strain from the hanging shelf of books on the opposite wall. Every volume there is an instrument which some melodist of the mind created and set vibrating with music, as a flower shakes out its perfume or a star shakes out its light. Only listen, and they soothe all care, as though the silken-soft leaves of poppies had been made vocal and poured into the ear.

  James Lane Allen

  Stars, Wall, Flower

  "A Kentucky Cardinal, Aftermath, and Other Selected Works".

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• The world of gods and spirits is truly 'nothing but' the collective unconscious inside me.

  Carl Jung

  Collective Unconscious, World, Collectives

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1973). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Psychology and religion, West and East”

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• The less we understand of what our fathers and forefathers sought, the less we understand ourselves, and thus we help with all our might to rob the individual of his roots and his guiding instincts, so that he becomes a particle in the mass, ruled only by what Nietzsche called the spirit of gravity.

  Carl Jung

  Father, Roots, Might

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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• Spirit and soul is horseshit of the worst sort. Obviously there are no fairies, no Santa Clauses, no spirits. What there is, is human goals and purposes as noted by sane existentialists. But a lot of transcendentalists are utter screwballs.

  Albert Ellis

  Goal, Soul, Purpose

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