Highest Quotes - Page 15

• There are two kinds of genius. The first and highest may be said to speak out of the eternal to the present, and must compel its age to understand it; the second understands its age, and tells it what it wishes to be told.

  James Russell Lowell

  Two, Speaks Out, Wish

  Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge (1871). “The North American Review”, p.196

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• [On the Internet and activism:] The danger of the Internet is cocooning with the like-minded online - of sending an email or twitter and confusing that with action - while the real corporate and military and government centers of power go right on. In a way, the highest purpose of the Internet is to bring us together for empathy and action. After all, the reflector cells and empathy-producing chemicals in our brains only work when we're physically together with all five senses. You can't raise a baby online.

  Gloria Steinem

  Baby, Military, Real

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• No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest god.
  [Lat., Fortis vero, dolorem summum malum judicans; aut temperans, voluptatem summum bonum statuens, esse certe nullo modo potest.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Pain, Men, Thinking

  "De Officiis". Treatise by Marcus Tullius Cicero, I. 2, 44 B.C..

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• The philosopher is he to whom the highest has descended, and the lowest has mounted up; who is the equal and kindly brother of all.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Brother, Philosophy, Philosopher

  Thomas Carlyle (1850). “Past and Present: Chartism and Sartor Resartus”

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• What a wretched thing is all fame! A renown of the highest sort endures, say, for two thousand years. And then? Why, then, a fathomless eternity swallows it. Work for eternity; not the meagre rhetorical eternity of the periodical critics, but for the real eternity wherein dwelleth the Divine.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Real, Years, Two

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• The nobleness of silence. The highest melody dwells only in silence,--the sphere melody, the melody of health.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Silence, Spheres, Melody

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• Great is wisdom; infinite is the value of wisdom. It cannot be exaggerated; it is the highest achievement of man.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wisdom, Men, Infinite

  John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle (2010). “Autobiography of J.S. Mill & on Liberty; Characteristics, Inaugural Address at Edinburgh & Sir Walter Scott”, p.390, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Such men as fortune raises from a mean estate to the highest elevation by way of a joke.

  Juvenal

  Mean, Men, Way

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• I am not aware that payment, or even favors, however gracious, bind any man's soul and conscience in questions of highest morality and highest importance.

  Charles Kingsley

  Men, Soul, Favors

  Charles Kingsley (1889). “Works”

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• I didn't want to be criticized for taking low-quality photographs, so I tried to reach the best, highest quality of photography and then to combine this with a conceptual art practice. But thinking back, that was the wrong decision [laughs]. Developing a low-quality aesthetic is a sign of serious fine art-I still see this.

  Hiroshi Sugimoto

  Photography, Art, Thinking

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• Why don't we see any questions from the press? Why don't we see anybody from the media saying, 'Mr. President, it's illegal, you started it, you are performing a program that is collecting all of the phone records from all Americans, it's been declared illegal from the second highest court in the land, why don't you stop?'

  Rand Paul

  Phones, Media, Land

  "Rand Paul's NSA Filibuster: His Notable Quotes" by Andrew Desiderio, www.realclearpolitics.com. May 21, 2015.

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• In Germany, many other countries, college tuition is free. Why isn`t free in America? Why do we have the highest rate of childhood poverty when other countries have rates much lower than we have? Why don`t we have pay equity for women workers? Why aren`t we leading the world in transforming our energy system in terms of climate change? We can do that. Are we dumb? Are we lazy? Not the case.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, College, America

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• A wonderful pastor I know once told me, "Perfectionism is the highest order of self-abuse." So now I try to remind myself that if I engage in perfectionism, I am abusing myself. Period.

  Ashley Judd

  Self, Order, Abuse

  "Ashley's Secret Life". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. July 9, 2006.

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• I want the largest audience I can get, because that's how I can charge the highest advertising rate. Which means what else do I want? Money. I am trying to earn a profit. It's capitalism.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Mean, Trying, Want

  "Limbaugh: 'I am trying to earn a profit'" by Mike Madden, www.salon.com. October 13, 2009.

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• Man was mark'd
  A friend in his creation to himself,
  And may, with fit ambition, conceive
  The greatest blessings, and the highest honors
  Appointed for him, if he can achieve them
  The right and noble way.

  Philip Massinger

  Ambition, Men, Blessing

  Philip Massinger, John Ford (1859). “The Dramatic Works of Massinger and Ford”, p.356

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• Only the highest souls realize and accept that he who sins is far more to be pitied, aye, and loved, if love is what the highest human passion should be, than is the one against whom the sinner has sinned.

  Louise Jordan Miln

  Passion, Love Is, Soul

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• The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.

  Novalis

  Powerful, Savages, Rivals

  "Novalis". Essay by Thomas Carlyle, 1829.

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• Eloquence, when in its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection.

  David Hume

  Reflection, Littles, Rooms

  David Hume (1826). “The Philosophical Works: Including All the Essays, and Exhibiting the More Important Alterations and Corrections in the Successive Ed. Publ. by the Author”, p.137

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• Man is the highest product of his own history. The discoverer finds nothing so grand or tall as himself, nothing so valuable to him. The greatest star is at the small end, of the telescope,--the star that is looking, not looked after nor looked at.

  Theodore Parker

  Stars, Men, Telescopes

  Theodore Parker “Centenary Edition [of the Writings of Theodore Parker]”

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• The power of admiring whatever is deserving of admiration, the nice and quick perception of the beautiful and the true, is one of the highest and noblest of our faculties, born of taste, and knowledge, and wisdom, or rather it is taste, and wisdom, and knowledge, in one rare and great combination.

  Mary Russell Mitford

  Beautiful, Appreciation, Nice

  MARY RUSSELL MITFORD (1870). “OUR VILLAGE”, p.406

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• Clutter in its highest and most organized form is called collecting.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Form, Collecting, Clutter

  Ada Louise Huxtable (2010). “On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change”, p.439, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• The highest greatness, surviving time and stone, is that which proceeds from the soul of man. Monarchs and cabinets, generals and admirals, with the pomp of court and the circumstance of war, in the lapse of time disappear from sight; but the pioneers of truth, though poor and lowly, especially those whose example elevates human nature, and teaches the rights of man, so that "a government of the people, by the people, for the people, may not perish from the earth;" such a harbinger can never be forgotten, and their renown spreads co-extensive with the cause they served so well.

  Charles Sumner

  War, Greatness, Men

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• there comes a time when ambition ceases to burn, or romance to stir, and the highest cry of the human heart is for peace.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Heart, Ambition, Romance

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1957). “The Mary Roberts Rinehart crime book”

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• I believe that art is the highest expression of the human spirit. I believe that we yearn to transcend the merely finite and ephemeral; to participate in something mysterious and communal called 'culture' - and that this yearning is as strong in our species as the yearning to reproduce the species.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Strong, Art, Believe

  Joyce Carol Oates (2009). “The Faith of a Writer: Life, Craft, Art”, p.1, Zondervan

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• Forms and regularity of proceeding, if they are not justice, partake much of the nature of justice, which, in its highest sense, is the spirit of distributive order.

  Augustus William Hare

  Order, Justice, Spirit

  Julius Charles HARE (Archdeacon of Lewes. and HARE (Augustus William)), Augustus William HARE (1847). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers. Third edition. First Series”, p.253

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