#spirit

We may fight against what is wrong, but if we allow ourselves to hate, that is to insure our spiritual defeat and our likeness to what we hate. ↗

— George William Russell

#allow #defeat #fight #hate #insure

Some authors have a very hard time understanding that in order to be faithful to the spirit of the book, it's almost always impossible to remain faithful to the text. You have to make changes. ↗

— Richard Russo

#always #authors #book #changes #faithful

Both now and for always, I intend to hold fast to my belief in the hidden strength of the human spirit. ↗

— Andrei Sakharov

#belief #both #fast #hidden #hold

There is more openness in LA to possibilities than on the East Coast of America. There is a pioneering spirit there that stems from the reason people went out there in the first place-to find something new. ↗

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

#coast #east #east coast #find #first

It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness. ↗

— George Santayana

#appreciate #bliss #domestic #patience #prefer

The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication. ↗

— George Santayana

#foe #man #simplicity #sophistication #spirit

In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a "failed experiment." Any test that yields valid data is a valid test. ↗

— Adam Savage

#data #experiment #failed #really #science

Eternal life and the invisible world are only to be sought in God. Only within Him do all spirits dwell. He is an abyss of individuality, the only infinite plenitude. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#dwell #eternal #eternal life #god #him

Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#chaos #completely #divine #element #encircle

We are showing that Englishmen can still die with a bold spirit, fighting it out to the end. ↗

— Robert Falcon Scott

#die #end #englishmen #fighting #out