Rabindranath Tagore Quotes

My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being.

The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.

Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin - find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less.

Throughout history, the arts and humanities have helped men and women around the globe grapple with the most challenging questions and come to know the most basic truths. In our increasingly interconnected world, the arts play an important role in both shaping the character that defines us and reminding us of our shared humanity. This month, we celebrate our Nation's arts and humanities, and we recommit to ensuring all Americans can access and experience them.

I don't think they understand it's as important as math and science. It rounds you out as a person. I think it gives you a love of certain things. You don't have to become the next great composer. It's just nice to have heard certain things or to have seen certain things. It's part of being a human being.

If you don't know the guy on the other side of the world, love him anyway because he's just like you. He has the same dreams, the same hopes and fears. It's one world, pal. We're all neighbors.

the story of any one of us is in some measure the story of us all

I think great art should play a part in the ordinary man's life, don't you? It can make his existence so much richer and more meaningful.

I want to believe that in any relational moment a person understands that the other person in front of them is just another human being.

All our stories are simultaneously unique and desperately similar, aren't they?

Love might have expanded her. But we are not all of us going to get loved. We are not all of us going to get expanded.

I'm admitting that I don't know that to be true, but it does sound pretty good. So a big part of my childhood was affecting black culture and black accents and black music and anything black I was into.

What is patriotism but love of the good things we ate in our childhood? I have said elsewhere that the loyalty to Uncle Sam is the loyalty to doughnuts and ham and sweet potatoes and the loyalty to the German Vaterland is the loyalty to Pfannkuchen and Christmas Stollen. As for international understanding, I feel that macaroni has done more for our appreciation of Italy than Mussolini... in food, as in death, we feel the essential brotherhood of mankind.

If during their education our youths become alienated from their language, history, ancestors, culture and civilization, it means there is a very serious educational problem there.

Our blood is the same, we just use it differently.

There is a magic in some books / That sucks a man into connections / With the spirits hard to touch / That join him to his kind.

I don't want to go to a foreign country and get lumped into that genre. I'm just looking at the bigger picture. This K-pop title might be good for now, but looking ahead it could hold me back, like a prison of sort. I'm a little wary about that.

We are interconnected.

What is private belongs to me alone. What is personal belongs to all of us through the shared experience of being human.

Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable.

Folklore is the boiled-down juice, or pot-likker, of human living.

If you're alive, you have all the experience necessary to understand classical music.

It is my fundamental belief that all human beings share the same basic aspirations: that we all want hapiness and that we all share suffering. Asians, just like Americans, Europeans, and the rest of the world, share a desire to live life to its fullest, to better ourselves and the lives of our loved ones.

The point is, you have an ethnic heritage and you have a human heritage. Your human heritage includes everything of human value.

Life is. I am. Anything might happen.