#visionary

They wept for humanity, those two, not for themselves. They could not bear that this should be the end. Ere silence was completed their hearts were opened, and they knew what had been important on the earth. Man, the flower of all flesh, the noblest of all creatures visible, man who had once made god in his image, and had mirrored his strength on the constellations, beautiful naked man was dying, strangled in the garments that he had woven. Century after century had he toiled, and here was his reward. Truly the garment had seemed heavenly at first, shot with colours of culture, sewn with the threads of self-denial. And heavenly it had been so long as man could shed it at will and live by the essence that is his soul, and the essence, equally divine, that is his body. The sin against the body - it was for that they wept in chief; the centuries of wrong against the muscles and the nerves, and those five portals by which we can alone apprehend - glozing it over with talk of evolution, until the body was white pap, the home of ideas as colourless, last sloshy stirrings of a spirit that had grasped the stars. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#visionary #beauty

Leaders of the future will have to be visionary and be able to bring people in - real communicators. These are things that women bring to leadership and executive positions, and it's going to be incredibly valuable and incredibly in demand. ↗

— Anita Borg

#bring #communicators #demand #executive #future

It's a very salutary thing to realize that the rather dull universe in which most of us spend most of our time is not the only universe there is. I think it's healthy that people should have this experience. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#creativity #experience #psychedelics #visionary #art

Visionary builds what dreamers imagined. ↗

— Toba Beta

#visionary #imagination

There is some advantage in having imagination, since that visionary faculty opens the mental eyes to facts that more practical and duller intellects could never see. ↗

— E.D.E.N. Southworth

#visionary #wisdom #imagination

In order to survive as a race, as a planet, you must learn to share light. There is no other way. ↗

— Joanna Gawn

#metaphysical #visionary #metaphysics

Someone who dreams cannot be forced to stop—there are no limitations to dreams, because we do not own dreams, dreams are from God. ↗

— Christina Westover

#dreamers #dreams #inspirational #literary-quotes #poisoning-sylvie

In my view, a political vision is not a grab-bag of discrete problems and solutions. It is the visionary anticipation of a direction. ↗

— Roberto Unger

#direction #discrete #political #problems #solutions

We had some major successes and we did so because the country embraced the spirit of Earth Day and embraced this concept that we have to have forward-looking, visionary environmental policy and energy policy in this country. ↗

— Jay Inslee

#concept #country #day #did #earth

There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order. ↗

— William E. Gladstone

#desire #experience #firmest #foundations #founded