Zitat des Tages über Menschenherz / Human Heart:
Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler.
I know how easy it is for some minds to glide along with the current of popular opinion, where influence, respectability, and all those motives which tend to seduce the human heart are brought to bear.
There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart.
In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.
The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.
Things are never simple when it comes to the human heart.
How frail the human heart must be - a mirrored pool of thought.
Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings of the human heart.
For a believer, Christian faith is true to the human heart, not in the sense that any old thing we fancy believing in will become conveniently true - but because the complicated truth about our hearts, as we struggle to perceive it, tells us what we are and where we are, and consequently what we need.
I feel that after all those horrible reviews and jokes, I wasn't crazy all these years to stand up for the music I believe in. This album has proven that somewhere in the human race, the human heart is still racing and breaking and I am so grateful.
There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.
The human heart dares not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making.
Capitalism attacks and destroys all the finer sentiments of the human heart; it ruthlessly sweeps away old traditions and ideas opposed to its progress, and it exploits and corrupts those things once held sacred.
Pain is the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart.
I know of nothing that brings greater joy to the human heart than laboring at home or abroad for the salvation of the souls of men. I know of nothing which gives us a greater love of all that is good, than teaching this Gospel of Jesus Christ.
The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.
The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.
What are gold and jewels and precious utensils? Mere dross and dirt. The human face and the human heart, reciprocations of kindness and love, and all the nameless sympathies of our nature - these are the only objects worth being attached to.
Wealth and want equally harden the human heart.
There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.
There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.
In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.
No, no, I never despair, because George Bush is not running the universe. He may be running the United States, he may be running the military, he may be running even the world, but he is not running the universe, he is not running the human heart.
Time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart.
The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.
Home - that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel's wings.
Hell lies at the bottom of the human heart.
The reactions of the human heart are not mechanical and predictable but infinitely subtle and delicate.
The study of social progress is today not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart.
I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor - to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself.
No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.
There are two different stories in horror: internal and external. In external horror films, the evil comes from the outside, the other tribe, this thing in the darkness that we don't understand. Internal is the human heart.
Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart. The way of feeling, of understanding, of loving; the way of seeing the country, the faces that your father saw, that your mother knew. The rest is chimerical.
The human heart is as a frail craft on which we wish to reach the stars.