“If the United States haven't grown poets, on any scale of grandeur, it is certain that they import, print, and read more poetry than any equal number of people elsewhere -- probably more than the rest of the world combined. Poetry (like a grand personality) is a growth of many generations -- many rare combinations. To have great poets, there must be great audiences too.” PeopleIfsWorldStatesCertainGrowthUnitedNumbersUnited StatesAudienceGenerationsHavensPoetPersonalityEqualScalesCombinationPrintElsewhereGrandeurImportsGreat Poet Book:Delphi Complete Works of Walt Whitman (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Walt Whitman (Illustrated)
“Faith as ultimate concern is an act of the total personality. It happens in the center of the personal life and includes all its elements. Faith is the most centered act of the human mind. It is not a movement of a special section or a special function of man's total being. They all are united in the act of faith.” MindHumansHappensFaithUnitedSpecialMovementPersonalityElementsConcernUltimateFunctionHuman MindPersonal LifeSections Author:Paul Tillich
“When love has carried us above all things ... we receive in peace the Incomprehensible Light, enfolding us and penetrating us. What is this Light, if it be not a contemplation of the Infinite, and an intuition of Eternity? We behold that which we are, and we are that which we behold; because our being, without losing anything of its own personality, is united with the Divine Truth.” IfsLightUnitedDivinePersonalityLosingAll ThingsEternityInfiniteIntuitionContemplation Author:John of Ruysbroeck
“I think it's interesting that the United States and Australia are two of the most individualistic nations in the entire world in terms of national personality.” ThinkingWorldTwoStatesNationsTermInterestingUnitedUnited StatesPersonalityAustraliaIndividualistic Author:Katharine Hayhoe