Reverence Quotes - Page 8

• Taste, if it mean anything but a paltry connoisseurship, must mean a general susceptibility to truth and nobleness, a sense to discern, and a heart to love and reverence all beauty, order, goodness, wheresoever, or in whatsoever forms and accompaniments they are to be seen. This surely implies, as its chief condition, not any given external rank or situation, but a finely-gifted mind, purified into harmony with itself, into keenness and justness of vision; above all, kindled into love and generous admiration.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Mean, Heart, Order

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “Critical and miscellaneous essays, collected and republ”, p.50

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• I reverence the individual who understands distinctly what he wishes; who unweariedly advances, who knows the means conducive to his object, and can seize and use them.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Mean, Decision, Wish

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.461, Delphi Classics

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• A sense of reverence is necessary for psychological health. If a person has no sense of reverence, no feeling that there is anyone or anything that inspires awe, it cuts the personality off completely from the nourishing springs of the unconscious.

  Robert Johnson

  Spring, Cutting, Psychological Health

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• This hour in history needs a dedicated circle of transformed nonconformists. Our planet teeters on the brink of annihilation; dangerous passions of pride, hatred, and selfishness are enthroned in our lives; and men do reverence before false gods of nationalism and materialism. The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of a nonconforming minority.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Passion, Pride, Men

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.18, Beacon Press

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• What is the distinguishing mark of an aristocrat?' she asked him suddenly.'Reverence,' he replied.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Mark

  Elizabeth Goudge (1944). “Green Dolphin Street”

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• How much reverence has a noble man for his enemies!--and such reverence is a bridge to love.--For he desires his enemy for himself, as his mark of distinction; he can endure no other enemy than one in whom there is nothing to despise and very much to honor! In contrast to this, picture "the enemy" as the man of ressentiment conceives him--and here precisely is his deed, his creation: he has conceived "the evil enemy," "the Evil One," and this in fact is his basic concept, from which he then evolves, as an afterthought and pendant, a "good one"--himself!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Noble Man, Bridges

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.475, Modern Library

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• O the anguish of that thought that we can never atone to our dead for the stinted affection we gave them, for the light answers we returned to their plaints or their pleadings, for the little reverence we showed to that sacred human soul that lived so close to us, and was the divinest thing God had given us to know!

  George Eliot

  Light, Soul, Answers

  George Eliot (1858). “Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.141

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• When we are dead : it is the living only who cannot be forgiven the living only from whom men's indulgence and reverence are held off, like the rain by the hard east wind .

  George Eliot

  Rain, Men, Wind

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3846, Delphi Classics

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• I have a deep reverence for everything that is alive, a reverence for life itself.

  Rajneesh

  Reverence For Life, Alive

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• The only thing truly within our power, may be whether or not we will behave in each moment with arrogance or reverence.

  Lawrence Kushner

  Arrogance, May, Moments

  Lawrence Kushner (1998). “Invisible Lines of Connection: Sacred Stories of the Ordinary”, Jewish Lights Pub

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• Knightly love is blent with reverence As heavenly air is blent with heavenly blue.

  George Eliot

  Love Is, Air, Blue

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.4066, Delphi Classics

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• The emancipation of the scholars and scientists from philosophy is according to [Nietzsche] only a part of the democratic movement, i.e. of the emancipation of the low from subordination to the high. ... The plebeian character of the contemporary scholar or scientist is due to the fact that he has no reverence for himself.

  Leo Strauss

  Philosophy, Character, Movement

  Leo Strauss (1985). “Studies in Platonic Political Philosophy”, p.186, University of Chicago Press

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• Nature is the symbol of Spirit.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spirit, Symbols

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.20, Library of America

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• The trick with computers I think, is to approach old and new things with the same reverence as you would like your favourite chair and not be seduced by the constant innovation otherwise you never do anything.

  Colin Greenwood

  Thinking, Innovation, Old And New

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The noble man honours in himself the powerful one, him also who has power over himself, who knows how to speak and how to keep silence, who takes pleasure in subjecting himself to severity and hardness, and has reverence for all that is severe and hard.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Powerful, Men, Noble Man

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2013). “The Selected Writings of Friedrich Nietzsche”, p.664, Simon and Schuster

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• Motherhood is so honorable a thing that nothing - no convention - can possibly make it dishonorable; and from the standpoint of the right of the child . . . the unmarried mother should be granted by society the same reverence and regard as the married mother.

  Ben Lindsey

  Mother, Children, Married

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• Reverence, human of the Earth, is the fundamental element of all existence, so it is therefore also the fundamental element of love itself, which is built on this all-embracing reverence. And since this is so in truth, it is also an impossible thing that love, once awakened and built up in truthfulness, can ever weaken again and become cold, or could transform into hate or be annihilated.

  Billy Meier

  Hate, Impossible Things, Fundamentals

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• The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, World, Neglect

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• Most of my favourite guitarists are self-taught, because in a way there's less of a reverence for the instrument itself, so you end up finding and inventing however you want to play it.

  Bryce Dessner

  Self, Play, Want

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• Painful emotions show you what prevents you from creating harmony, cooperation, sharing and reverence for life.

  Gary Zukav

  Creating, Reverence For Life, Cooperation

  "Gary Zukav On Spiritual Spring Cleaning" by Gary Zukav, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2012.

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• Modesty and reverence are no less virtues of freemen than the democratic feeling which will submit neither to arrogance nor to servility.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Feelings, Arrogance, Democracy

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• You have respect and reverence for your characters and the fact that you're going to epitomize that person for the rest of their lives. They're going to be judged based on your performance by millions of people. You have a certain responsibility.

  Aaron Eckhart

  Character, Responsibility, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Let man only approach his own self with a deep respect, even reverence for all that the creative soul, the God-mystery within us, puts forth. Then we shall all be sound and free. Lewdness is hateful because it impairs our integrity and our proud being. The creative, spontaneous soul sends forth its promptings of desire and aspiration in us. These promptings are our true fate, which is our business to fulfill. A fate dictated from outside, from theory or from circumstance, is a false fate.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Fate, Self, Creative

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• Children, we must cultivate reverence towards all great masters, monks and gurus.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Children, Monk

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• I demand for the unmarried mother, as a sacred channel of life, the same reverence and respect as for the married mother; for Maternity is a cosmic thing and once it has come to pass, our conversation must not be permitted to blaspheme it.

  Ben Lindsey

  Mother, Demand, Sacred

  "Philippines Free Press", Volume 62, Issues 46-52, (p. 44), 1969.

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