Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gustav Mahler

The spirit can assert itself only through the medium of clear form.

Greg Bear

Conservatism is not about tradition and morality, hasn't been for many decades... It is about the putative biological and spiritual superiority of the wealthy.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is a strange thing that many truly spiritual men, such as General Gordon, have actually spent some hours in speculating upon the precise location of the Garden of Eden. Most probably we are in Eden still. It is only our eyes that have changed.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Coincidence is a spiritual pun.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

When once you have got hold of a vulgar joke, you may be certain that you have got hold of a subtle and spiritual idea.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is the friction of two spiritual things, of tradition and invention, or of substance and symbol, from which the mind takes fire. The creeds condemned as complex have something like the secret of sex; they can breed thoughts.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Family is the theatre of the spiritual drama, the place where things happen, especially the things that matter.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The old religionist cried out for his god. The new religionist cries out for some god to be his.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

[Buddhism and Christianity] are in one sense parallel and equal; as a mound and a hollow, as a valley and a hill. There is a sense in which that sublime despair is the only alternative to that divine audacity. It is even true that the truly spiritual and intellectual man sees it as sort of dilemma; a very hard and terrible choice. There is little else on earth that can compare with these for completeness. And he who does not climb the mountain of Christ does indeed fall into the abyss of Buddha.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.

John Maynard Keynes

They offer me neither food nor drink - intellectual nor spiritual consolation... [Conservatism] leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal; it conforms to no intellectual standard, it is not safe, or calculated to preserve from the spoilers that degree of civilization which we have already attained.

John Maeda

Think of the computer as a spiritual space for thinking.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Before you can do something, you must first be something.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All truths are old, and all that we have to do is recognize and utter them anew.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I am the Spirit that denies.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The thought of death leaves me in perfect peace, for I have a firm conviction that our spirit is a being of indestructible nature; it works on from eternity to eternity, it is like the sun, which though it seems to set to our mortal eyes, does not really set, but shines on perpetually.

Jimmy Carter

The stronger the ties that bind us to God, the more likely we are to live, react, and behave in harmony with...greater joy, peace, and happiness.

Franklin Graham

Prayer is the most powerful resource we have in this life; yet, many only turn to it as a last resort. When unbelievers pray for repentance of sin and ask for God’s forgiveness, prayer is the spiritual dynamite that obliterates the darkness and despair of a sin-soaked soul.

Francois Fenelon

All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.

Frank Lloyd Wright

As we live and as we are, Simplicity - with a capital "S" - is difficult to comprehend nowadays. We are no longer truly simple. We no longer live in simple terms or places. Life is a more complex struggle now. It is now valiant to be simple: a courageous thing to even want to be simple. It is a spiritual thing to comprehend what simplicity means.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.

Frank A. Clark

We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't.

Although technical discussions are interesting to composers, I suspect that the truly magical and spiritual powers of music arise from deeper levels of our psyche.

Music might be defined as a system of proportions in the service of a spiritual impulse

George Crook

The great mistake these people make is that they go to looking after the spiritual welfare of the Indians before securing their physical.

Lord Acton

Liberty is the prevention of control by others. This requires self-control and, therefore, religious and spiritual influences; education, knowledge, well-being.

Lord Acton

Learn as much by writing as by reading.

Lois McMaster Bujold

In mysticism, knowledge cannot be separated from a certain way of life which becomes its living manifestation. To acquire mystical knowledge means to undergo a transformation; one could even say that the knowledge is the transformation. Scientific knowledge, on the other hand, can often stay abstract and theoretical. Thus most of today’s physicists do not seem to realize the philosophical, cultural and spiritual implications of their theories.

Livy

There is always more spirit in attack than in defence.

Harry A. Blackmun

Abortion raises moral and spiritual questions over which honorable persons can disagree sincerely and profoundly. But those disagreements did not then and do not now relieve us of our duty to apply the Constitution faithfully.

Harry Belafonte

I am who I am despite what America has put before me. I am who I am despite the obstacles that we have all faced based upon race and based upon social and spiritual humiliation.

Hannah More

The keen spirit seizes the prompt occasion.

Glenn Hughes

I thank God for his many blessings he has given me, but money and prestige are not what it's about. I seek spiritual progression.