A Quote by Frederic Goudy

Of all the achievements of the human mind, the birth of the alphabet is the most momentous.

Frederic Goudy

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Frederic Goudy
American - Designer
March 8, 1865 - May 11, 1947

Language is, without a doubt, the most momentous and at the same time the most mysterious product of the human mind.

Susanne Katherina Langer

Christian worship is the most momentous, most urgent, most glorious action that can take place in human life.

Karl Barth

...I sense that stepping into the light is also a powerful metaphor for consciousness, for the birth of the knowing mind, for the simple and yet momentous coming of the sense of self into the world of the mental.

Antonio Damasio

The greatest and most momentous fact which the history of the world records is the fact of-Christ's birth.

Charles Spurgeon

The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

Pythagoras

The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

Arthur Schopenhauer

You will notice that in all disputes between Christians since the birth of the Church, Rome has always favored the doctrine which most completely subjugated the human mind and annihilated reason.

Voltaire

We are dealing with a fundamental characteristic, inherent in human nature, a potentiality given to all or most human beings at birth, which most often is lost or buried or inhibited as the person gets enculturated.

Abraham Maslow

We cannot afford the still-birth of new ideas that lack the life force that comes from the depths. We are called to return to the root of our being where the sacred is born. Then, standing in both the inner and outer worlds, we will find our self to be part of the momentous synchronicity of life giving birth to itself.

Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

The general history of art and literature shows that the highest achievements of the human mind are, as a rule, not favourably received at first.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Birth is the scariest event of most peoples' lives. You have to feel safe enough in your own mind before you can remember your own birth.

Leonard Orr

While every human being has a capacity for love, its realization is one of the most difficult achievements.

Erich Fromm

Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind.

Jean Rostand

The manner in which I learned to read and write, not only had great influence on my own mind, as I acquired it with the most perfect ease, so much so, that I have no recollection whatever of learning the alphabet.

Nat Turner

Don't be afraid. Human birth is full of suffering and one has to endure everything patiently, taking the Name of God. None, not even God in human form can escape the sufferings of the body and mind.