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“Unchecked, the dominating influences of money and of barren intellectualism would reduce the life of emotions to freezing point. And, unable to grasp the holier benefits of religion, the mysticism of the heart reacts in the art-intoxication. .... In this cold, irreligious and practical age the warmth of this devotion to art has kept alive many higher aspirations of our soul, which otherwise might readily have died, as they did in the middle of the last century.”

Source: Lectures on Calvinism

“The heart and soul of school culture is what people believe, the assumptions they make about how school works.”

People Believe Heart Soul School Culture Vision Assumption Heart And Soul School Work

Author:Thomas J. Sergiovanni

“When women work on reclaiming the lost part of themselves, they're also working on reclaiming the lost soul of the culture as well.”

Wells Soul Culture Lost Self Knowledge Lost Souls

Author:Maureen Murdock

“A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.”

Source: The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: The voice of truth

“That's why we sail. So our children can grow up and be proud of whom they are. We are healing our souls by reconnecting to our ancestors. As we voyage we are creating new stories within the tradition of the old stories, we are literally creating a new culture out of the old.”

“Piety is not an end, but a means: a means of attaining the highest culture by the purest tranquility of soul. Hence it may be observed that those who set up piety as an end and object are mostly hypocrites.”

May Mean Soul Ends Culture Objects Highest Tranquility Hypocrite Piety

Book:Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)

“The destination of the soul: this is what I, led on by Nils Holgersson, came to seek in the literature of Western Europe. I fervently hope that my pursuit, as a Japanese, of literature and culture will, in some small measure, repay Western Europe for the light it has shed upon the human condition.”

Humans Soul Light Culture Literature Conditions Europe Western Pursuit Destination Human Condition Shed Western Europe

Author:Kenzaburo Oe

“The paths by which people journey toward happiness lie in part through the world about them and in part through the experience of their souls. On the one hand, there is the happiness which comes from wealth, honor, the enjoyment of life, from health, culture, science, or art; and, on the other hand, there is the happiness which is to be found in a good conscience, in virtue, work, philanthropy, religion, devotion to great ideas and great deeds.”

People World Art Ideas Soul Hands Lying Culture Found Wealth Virtue Path Journey Honor Conscience Deeds Devotion Enjoyment Philanthropy Great Idea

Book:Happiness - Essays On The Meaning Of Life

Source: Happiness - Essays On The Meaning Of Life

“There is a certain period of the soul-culture when it begins to interfere with some of characters of typical beauty belonging to the bodily frame, the stirring of the intellect wearing down the flesh, and the moral enthusiasm burning its way out to heaven, through the emaciation of the earthen vessel; and there is, in this indication of subduing the mortal by the immortal part, an ideal glory of perhaps a purer and higher range than that of the more perfect material form. We conceive, I think, more nobly of the weak presence of Paul than of, the fair and ruddy countenance of David.”

“war has dug itself into economic systems, where it offers a livelihood to millions ... It has lodged in our souls as a kind of religion, a quick tonic for political malaise and a bracing antidote to the moral torpor of consumerist, market-driven cultures.”

Kind War Soul Political Culture Moral Millions Economic Offers Driven Antidote Livelihood Economic Systems Malaise

Author:Barbara Ehrenreich