Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination, and o...
Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.
Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.
You can't take the sky from me.
Creative work bridges time because the energy of art is not time-bound. If it were we should have no interest in the art of the past, except as history or documentary. But our interest in art is our i...
I understood that centuries of chains and lashes will not kill the spirit of man nor the sense of truth within him.
Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.
Aristotle taught that stars are made of a different matter than the four earthly elements— a quintessence— that also happens to be what the human psyche is made of. Which is why man’s spirit correspon...
Philosophy cannot be extinguished, though men will try ... The spirit seeks the light, that is its nature. It wishes to return to its origin, and must forever try to reach enlightenment.
Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affect...
In that nanosecond of enlightenment I knew that the human spirit survives the death of the physical body and I understood that my wandering soul needed to get back into its earthly habitat.
Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.
The human spirit is a magnificent entity. Just when we think we can stand no more, something significant touches our soul... and life goes on.
Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.
~Remember this always:Your body and mind can be broken, but your Spirit, is unbreakable, and unchangeable~When we talk about people or circumstances breaking our spirit, what we mean is that a person...
The world in which you were born is just one model of reality. Other cultures are not failed attempts at being YOU: they are unique manifestations of the human spirit.
Believe. No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted island, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
Faith belongs to the human spirit. Faith is faith. Humanity is divided by religion, religion is the divider of humanity. If every human could be removed of their blindfolds and see that faith is in it...
The human spirit carries a torch called hope.