#spirit

Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#ashamed #author #belief #boundaries #critics

That was my way, and I also use the music after five years, I started hearing opera, opera, it was very good instrument to keep the spirit very strong because you feel like you are yourself singing opera, and I used to hear a lot of opera, they send me tapes. ↗

— Mordechai Vanunu

#also #because #feel #five #good

Everything science has taught me strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death. I believe in an immortal soul. Science has proved that nothing disintegrates into nothingness. Life and soul, therefore, cannot disintegrate into nothingness, and so are immortal. ↗

— Werner Von Braun

#death #immortality #life #soul #spirit

Every society rests in the last resort on the recognition of common principles and common ideals, and if it makes no moral or spiritual appeal to the loyalty of its members, it must inevitably fall to pieces. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#common #every #fall #ideals #inevitably

The sublimated idealism of the Enlightenment, the spirit of the League of Nations and of the United Nations Charter have not proved strong enough to control the aggressive dynamism of nationalism. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#charter #control #dynamism #enlightenment #enough

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it. ↗

— Voltaire

#misery #spirit #who

We can hear the silent voice of the spiritual universe within our own hearts. ↗

— Ruth St. Denis

#hearts #our #own #silent #spiritual

It is precisely as though I were possessed by some other spirit when I enter on a new task of acting, as though something within me presses a switch and my own consciousness merges into some other, greater, more vital being. ↗

— Conrad Veidt

#being #consciousness #enter #greater #i

Men have to descend from their pedestal and learn how to be more broadminded and spiritual. ↗

— Indra Devi

#descend #how #learn #men #more

When you are balanced and when you listen and attend to the needs of your body, mind, and spirit, your natural beauty comes out. ↗

— Christy Turlington

#balanced #beauty #body #comes #listen