Vital Quotes

Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed. (William James)
Consideration for other persons or for other living beings is very vital for goodness and want of consideration for other people makes human beings selfish, regardless for other people's good. View quote
Morarji Desai
An architect, to be a true exponent of his time, must possess first, last and always the sympathy, the intuition of a poet ... this is the one real, vital principle that survives through all places and all times. View quote
Louis Sullivan
As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country. View quote
William Howard Taft
Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet. View quote
Jack Herer
Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
Disease is a vital expression of the human organism. View quote
Georg Groddeck
In Aristotle the mind, regarded as the principle of life, divides into nutrition, sensation, and faculty of thought, corresponding to the inner most important stages in the succession of vital phenomena. View quote
Wilhelm Wundt
Then with no fiery throbbing pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way. View quote
Samuel Johnson
The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success. View quote
Michael Korda
And a third danger is timidity. Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality of those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change. (Robert F. Kennedy)
It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them. View quote
Leo Buscaglia
While democracy must have its organizations and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty. View quote
Charles Evans Hughes
Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it. View quote
Bertrand Russell
The work of art ... is an instrument for tilling the human psyche, that it may continue to yield a harvest of vital beauty. View quote
Herbert Read
This organization of functional discourse is of vital importance; it serves as a vehicle of coordination and subordination. The unified, functional language is an irreconcilably anti-critical and anti-dialectical language. In it, operational and behavioral rationality absorbs the transcendent, negative, oppositional elements of Reason. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
The range of human potentialities is also the range of human needs because of man's vital drive that impels him to seek to realize his potentialities. this drive is even more mysterious than the potentialities it seeks to realize. View quote
Carroll Quigley
The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved. View quote
Emma Goldman
Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock. View quote
Kurt Cobain
Science and policy-making thrive on challenge and questioning; they are vital to the health of inquiry and democracy. View quote
Nicholas Stern
The goal of art was the vital expression of self. (Alfred Stieglitz)
Physiology and psychology cover, between them, the field of vital phenomena; they deal with the facts of life at large, and in particular with the facts of human life. View quote
Wilhelm Wundt
The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes on the street. View quote
Gavin Newsom
Keeping a feminine approach is vital - men hate bossy females. View quote
Ida Lupino
Too many vital education dollars that should be spent in the classroom are bouncing around in the federal bureaucracy. View quote
Mark Kennedy