“The self must be a tense bow. It must struggle with opposites rather than harmonize them, rather than turn the tension over to the great instruments of last manhood the skilled bow unbenders and Jesuits of our days, the psychiatrists, who, in the same spirit and as part of the same conspiracy of modernity as the peace virtuosos, reduce conflict.” SelfLastsSpiritTurnsStruggleConflictOppositesInstrumentsTensionConspiracyBowsManhoodTenseModernityPsychiatristJesuit Book:Closing of the American Mind Source: Closing of the American Mind
“And thou, who didst the stars and sunbeams know, Self-school'd, self-scann'd, self-honour'd, self-secure, Didst tread on earth unguess'd at. Better so! All pains the immortal spirit must endure, All weakness which impairs, all griefs which bow, Find their sole speech in that victorious brow.” KnowsSelfSchoolEarthPainSpiritStarsGriefSpeechWeaknessEndureSecureImmortalHonourBowsSoleBrowsSunbeams Book:Selected Poems of Matthew Arnold Source: Selected Poems of Matthew Arnold
“I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.” LoveSpiritReligionChurchLove YouSonPrayingTemplesBowsI Love YouUnity In DiversityI Loved YouMosquesKneelingAnti LoveCritical SpiritFunny Anti Love Author:Khalil Gibran
“We bow our heads in respect for those Soviet women who displayed exceptional courage in the severe time of war. Never before but during the days of the war the grandeur of spirit and the invincible will of our Soviet women, their selfless dedication, loyalty and affection to their Homeland, their boundless persistence in work and their heroism on the front manifested themselves with such strength.” WarSpiritFrontsAffectionLoyaltyPersistenceSovietDedicationSelflessBowsHeroismSevereExceptionalHomelandGrandeurBoundlessInvincible Author:Leonid Brezhnev
“Coercive measures may have a restraining effect for a time, but can never subdue an untractable spirit: it is only by engaging the affections and enlarging the understanding, that the heart can be meliorated or principles be formed; for like a bow forcibly bent, the mind recoils from oppression with elastic power.” MindHeartMaySpiritForceUnderstandingPrinciplesEffectsAffectionOppressionBowsBentEngagingRestrainingRecoil Author:Mary Hays
“All pains the immortal spirit must endure, All weakness that impairs, all griefs that bow, Find their sole voice in that victorious brow.” PainSuccessSpiritVoiceGriefCreativityWeaknessEndureImmortalBowsSoleBrows Book:Poems Source: Poems