John Steinbeck Quotes About Universe

Quotes about: Universe

• But I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe. It is always attacked and never destroyed - because 'Thou mayest.

  John Steinbeck

  Unique, Eden, Soul

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.265, Penguin

• And this you can know- fear the time when Manself will not suffer and die for a concept, for this one quality is man, distinctive in the universe.

  John Steinbeck

  Men, Wrath, Suffering

  John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.119, Hamilton Books

• Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

  John Steinbeck

  Work, Men, Wrath

  Grapes of Wrath (1939) ch. 14

• The Hebrew word, the word timshel - 'Thou mayest' - that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open...Why, that makes a man great...He can choose his course and fight it through and win...I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe. It is always attacked and never destroyed - because 'Thou mayest'. ch 24

  John Steinbeck

  Fighting, Winning, Unique

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