Quotes with spirit

Quotes 61 till 80 of 344.

  • Caspar David Friedrich Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within.
    Caspar David Friedrich: line and transparency (1984)
    Caspar David Friedrich
    German landscape painter (1774 - 1840)
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  • Doug Horton Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain.
    Doug Horton
    American Protestant clergyman
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Constancy has nothing virtuous in itself, independently of the pleasure it confers, and partakes of the temporizing spirit of vice in proportion as it endures tamely moral defects of magnitude in the object of its indiscreet choice.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Jawaharlal Nehru Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.
    Jawaharlal Nehru
    Indian nationalist and statesman (1889 - 1964)
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  • Matthew Arnold Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
    Matthew Arnold
    British critic and poet (1822 - 1888)
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  • Matthew Arnold Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.
    Matthew Arnold
    British critic and poet (1822 - 1888)
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  • Jeremy Taylor Curiosity is the direct incontinence of the spirit.
    Jeremy Taylor
    British churchman and writer (1613 - 1667)
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  • John Ruskin Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Cameron Sinclair Design is about creating spaces for people to enjoy and of course, creating moments where you elevate the spirit, but 'design for good' is figuring out a program that not only creates better spaces, but creates jobs, creates new industry and really kind of raises the conversation about how we rebuild.
    Cameron Sinclair
    British architect and writer (1973 - )
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  • William Saroyan Doctors don't know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in spirit.
    William Saroyan
    Armenian-American novelist, playwright, and writer (1908 - 1981)
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  • Arthur Erickson Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Mark Twain Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty -the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Abdul Kalam Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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  • Boris Pasternak Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time, Be crushed by the spirit of light.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Lydia M. Child Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do.
    Lydia M. Child
    American Abolitionist, Writer, Editor (1802 - 1880)
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  • Black Hawk Every one makes his feast as he thinks best, to please the Great Spirit, who has the care of all beings created. Others believe in two Spirits, one good and one bad, and make feasts for the Bad Spirit, to keep him quiet. They think that if they can make peace with him, the Good Spirit will not hurt them. For my part I am of the opinion, that so far as we have reason, we have a right to use it in determining what is right or wrong, and we should always pursue that path which we believe to be righ
    The Autobiography of Black Hawk (1833)
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  • Anne Sullivan Macy Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free.
    Anne Sullivan Macy
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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  • Elbert Hubbard Every spirit makes its house, but as afterwards the house confines the spirit, you had better build well.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Anton Chekhov Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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