- Knowledge
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Life Quotes
Quotes on the meaning found in life.
Life quotes on this page range widely - from lifelong searches for spiritual meaning and questions about religious definitions of sin, to the more ordinary scene of people debating life's big problems over drinks. That range mirrors related pages like Life Status.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Man
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.
- Nature
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.
- Knowledge
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.
- Live
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.
- Courage
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I am shocked at the attitude of our American troops. They have no respect for death, the courage of an enemy soldier, or many of the ordinary decencies of life.
- Forget
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Civilization must be based on life. We should never forget that human life was created in and for millions of centuries, was nourished by primitive wildness. We cannot separate ourselves from this ancestral background.
- Long
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?
- Music
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
All roads for me lead back to Mozart. In his tragically short life, he breathed new life, fire and meaning into every form of music that existed in his time.
- Looking
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
It's Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony I'm really looking forward to. Simon Rattle does it perfectly: he understands its primal rhythmic life force, and he and the wonderful Berliners make it a sheer riot of orchestral colour.
- People
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
It is a thoroughly anti-christian doctrine that the Spirit of God, and therefore the life and governing power of the Church, resides in the ministry, to the exclusion of the people.
- Personality
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them that our personality is built up; to be without the power of imagining them is to be a low-grade idiot.
- Nov 07, 2020
There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point.
- Exert
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.
- Great
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.
- Heart
- |
- Nov 07, 2020