Quotes about "Faith & Spirituality"

If we investigate the vague feelings of the average man towards the arts, we find that he is timid and that he has developed a humble belief that art is something which has been invented centuries ago in countries like Greece or Italy and that all we can do about it is study it carefully and apply it. ”

I feel very German - and who can make himself a judge over what is German and what is not - in my ideas and the ideas of my spiritual brothers of German origin. ”

Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will one day rise toward Heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith. ”

Science doesn't in the slightest depend on trust. It depends completely on the belief that you can demonstrate something for yourself. ”

I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background. ”

Obviously, the domestic need is to shape an economic policy that assures long-term healthy economic growth and a reassertion of American competitiveness in international competition. ”

If every small nation with a border dispute believes they can go ahead and launch a pre-emptive war and that it will be approved by the greatest power, that is a very dangerous thing. ”

A liberal to me is one who - and it suits some of the dictionary definitions - is unbeholden to any specific belief or party or group or person, but makes up his or her mind on the basis of the facts and the presentation of those facts at the time. That defines what I am. ”

Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction. ”

Cynicism, I contend, is the wailing of someone who believes that things are, or should be, or could be, much, much better than they are. ”