The Human Spirit Quotes

Poverty is mean and degrading to the human spirit, whereas a life of conscious simplicity can have both a beauty and a functional integrity that elevates the human spirit.

The only goal of science is the honour of the human spirit, and a question in number theory is worth a question concerning the system of the world.

History is the record of human progress, a record of the struggle of the advancement of the human mind, of the human spirit, towards some known or unknown objective.

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

For most of us, for almost all of us, truth can be attained, if at all, only in silence. It is in silence that the human spirit touches the divine.

Dignity is more important to the human spirit than wealth.

It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward.

Literature is an inquiry into the deepest yearnings of the human spirit.

History studies not just facts and institutions, its real subject is the human spirit.

We always want to see people strive and see the human spirit triumph against adversity. That's what it's all about because that's what we're doing. We're trying to triumph in our lives.

You can't take the sky from me.

Every reiteration of the idea that nothing matters debases the human spirit.

Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.

To me, art is the glorification of the human spirit.

The greatest Marxist writer of the twentieth century, paradoxically, is also one of the greatest examples of the independence of the human spirit from its material limitations.

...good things happen to the human spirit when it is left alone.

You cannot break the human spirit.

The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.

The quickest way to kill the human spirit is to ask someone to do mediocre work.

There can be no lasting peace, no security, nor can we as human beings begin to touch our full potential, as long as hunger overwhelms the human spirit around this planet.

The human spirit is indomitable, unless your talking specifically about the people I know.

There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free.

Human spirit, things that aren't tangible, fascinate me, so I'm always researching mind, spirit, soul.

We need music to restore the human spirit

War is primarily not about victory or defeat but about death and the infliction of death. It represents the total failure of the human spirit.

The human spirit can be indomitable and it is this rare quality that is not at all to be expected that makes survivors of us all, the human race in the grand scheme of things.

The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.

There is always the possibility of beauty where there is an unsealed human eye; of music where there is an unstopped human ear; and of inspiration where there is a receptive human spirit.

The human spirit was the strongest medicine on earth. And sometimes all it needed was a little encouragement to pull off a miracle.

Isn't Hollywood a dump-in the human sense of the word. A hideous town, pointed up by the insulting gardens of its rich, full of the human spirit at a new low of debasement.

As we, the world, and the way we live have become more complex, we've moved further away from living in alignment with our human spirit and with the earth.

Creativity is dynamic, it asserts life, frees the human spirit, conquers mental lassitude and illness, and makes real the outrageous potential of the universal imagination.

I think the Bible is hugely patriarchal. There are so many sexist comments and homophobic comments and comments that are not in keeping with nurturing and loving the human spirit.

Yet there is a dignity in the human spirit which can become most clearly visible in the moment of defeat and disaster.

Big government squashes the human spirit

I think the human spirit is a real powerful spirit. It has no limits and it has no ends. And I hate to see it put in any kind of box - pink or green.

Any treatment of an illness that does not also minister to the human spirit is grossly deficient.

The human spirit must transcend number and break through multiplicity, and God will break through him; and just as He

...the human spirit knows, deep down that all lives intersect.

Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit.

Dance, like music, is the expression of the human spirit. Dance is 'visual music'.

The force that propels the human spirit on the clear way forward and upward is the abstract spirit.

Anybody with ability can play in the big leagues. To last as long as I did with the skills I had, with the numbers I produced, was a triumph of the human spirit.

In philosophical inquiry, the human spirit, imitating the movement of the stars, must follow a curve which brings it back to its point of departure. To conclude is to close a circle.

Survival is not so much about the body, but rather it is about the triumph of the human spirit.

But the human spirit is resilient. God made us so. He gave us the ability to forgive. To leave our past behind. To look forward instead of back.

Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it allows me to survive, and better than that, to thrive with passion, compassion, and style.

The visual arts must communicate to the human spirit, forcing individuals to reflect on themselves and their existence beyond their own self-interest.

Art is the highest expression of the human spirit.

The human spirit is resilient and truth - no matter how long you abuse it and how long you try to crush it - will, as Dr. King would say, rise up again, and in the final analysis will prevail.