Highest Quotes - Page 22

• Such is the world. Understand it, despise it, love it; cheerfully hold on thy way through it, with thy eye on highest loadstars!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Eye, World, Way

  Thomas Carlyle (1848). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays”, p.78

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• Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control. Where ever the cause of liberty is making its way, one of its highest accomplishments is the guarantee of the freedom of the press.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Accomplishment, Freedom Of Speech, Liberty

  "Foundations of the Republic; Speeches and Addresses" by Calvin Coolidge, 1926.

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• To overcome in battle, and subdue Nations, and bring home spoils with infinite Man-slaughter, shall be held the highest pitch Of human glory.

  John Milton

  War, Home, Men

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1852). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office”, p.504

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• In the world of thought a man's rank is determined, not by his average work, but by his highest achievement.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Men, Average, World

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• The common prejudice against philosophy is the result of the incapacity of the multitude to deal with the highest problems.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Philosophy, Prejudice, Common

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• If science were nothing more than the best means of teaching the love of the simple fact, the indispensable need of verification, of careful and accurate observation and statement, its value would be of the highest order.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Teaching, Mean, Simple

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• The truth is that art does not teach; it makes you feel, and any teaching that may arise from the feeling is an extra, and must not be stressed too much. In the modern world, and in Canada as much as anywhere, we are obsessed with the notion that to think is the highest achievement of mankind, but we neglect the fact that thought untouched by feeling is thin, delusive, treacherous stuff.

  Robertson Davies

  Art, Teaching, Thinking

  Robertson Davies (1993). “Fortune, My Foe and Eros at Breakfast”, p.8, Dundurn

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• It is in our own mind and not in exterior objects that we perceive most things; fools know scarcely anything because they are empty, and their heart is narrow; but great souls find in themselves a number of exterior things; they have no need to read or travel or to listen or to work to discover the highest truths; they have only to delve into themselves and search, if we may say so, their own thoughts.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Heart, Numbers, Soul

  "Reflections and Maxims". Book by Luc de Clapiers, 1746.

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• Men have been taught that their first concern is to relieve the suffering of others. ... To make that the highest test of virtue is to make suffering the most important part of life. Then man must wish to see others suffer in order that he may be virtuous. Such is the nature of altruism.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Order, Suffering Of Others

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.64, Penguin

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• Selfishness does not mean only to do things for one's self. One may do things, affecting others, for his own pleasure and benefit. This is not immoral, but the highest of morality.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Self, Doe

  "Journals of Ayn Rand". Book by Ayn Rand, 1997.

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• A weak mind sinks under prosperity, as well as under adversity. A strong and deep mind has two highest tides - when the moon is at the full, and when there is no moon.

  David Hare

  Strong, Adversity, Moon

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• Only a work democracy can create the foundation of genuine freedom. Long experience in sociological disputes leads me to expect that a great many people will take offense at the disclosure of this miscalculation. It makes the highest demands on people's will to veracity; it puts a heavy burden on everyday living; it places all social responsibility on those who work, be it in the factory, in the office, on the farm, in the laboratory, or wherever.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Responsibility, Long, People

  "The Mass Psychology of Fascism". Book by Wilhelm Reich, 1933.

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• When I was a boy in the 1930s, the carbon dioxide level was still below 300 parts per million. This year, it reached 382, the highest figure for hundreds of thousands of years.

  David Attenborough

  Boys, Years, Levels

  "Attenborough: Climate change is the major challenge facing the world". www.independent.co.uk. May 23, 2006.

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• In a word, the Holy Scripture is the highest and best of books, abounding in comfort under all afflictions and trials. It teaches us to see, to feel, to grasp, and to comprehend faith, hope, and charity, far otherwise than mere human reason can; and while evil oppresses us, it teaches how these virtues throw light upon the darkness, and how, after this poor, miserable existence of ours on earth, there is another and an eternal life.

  Martin Luther

  Book, Light, Evil

  Martin Luther (1848). “The Table Talk Or Familiar Discourse of Martin Luther”, p.2

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• The Mass is the greatest blasphemy of God, and the highest idolatry upon earth, an abomination the like of which has never been in Christendom since the time of the Apostles.

  Martin Luther

  Earth, Abomination, Mass

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.69

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• I am alone, as though I stood     On the highest peak of the tired gray world,About me only swirling snow,     Above me, endless space unfurled;With earth hidden and heaven hidden,     And only my own spirit's prideTo keep me from the peace of those     Who are not lonely, having died.

  Sara Teasdale

  Lonely, Tired, Space

  Sara Teasdale, William Drake (1984). “Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

  Margaret Mead

  Men, Cities, Groups

  Margaret Mead, Rhoda Bubendey Métraux (1979). “Margaret Mead, some personal views”, Angus & Robertson

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• Since freedom is not a fixed thing that can be grasped and held once for all, but a growth, any particular society, such as our own, always appears partly free and partly unfree. In so far as it favors, in every child, the development of his highest possibilities, it is free, but where it falls short of this it is not.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Children, Freedom, Fall

  Charles Horton Cooley (1909). “Two Major Works: Social Organization. Human Nature and the Social Order”, Glencoe, Ill., Free P

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• Wikipedia is first and foremost an effort to create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language. Asking whether the community comes before or after this goal is really asking the wrong question: the entire purpose of the community is precisely this goal.

  Jimmy Wales

  Goal, Effort, Community

  "Wikipedia is an encyclopedia". Wikipedia-l mailing list, March 08, 2005.

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• Let a man (as most men do) rate themselves as the highest Value they can; yet their true Value is no more than it is esteemed by others.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Men, Rate, True Value

  Thomas Hobbes (2015). “Leviathan”, p.107, Xist Publishing

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• Near the snow, near the sun, in the highest fields, See how these names are fêted in the waving grass And by the streamers of the white cloud And whispers of the wind in the listening sky. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's centre. Born of the sun, they travelled a short while toward the sun And left the vivid air signed with their honour.

  Stephen Spender

  Heart, Air, Wind

  'I think continually of those who were truly great' (1933)

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• America washes its dirty linen in public. When scandals such as this one hit, they do sully America's image in the world. But what usually also gets broadcast around the world is the vivid reality that the United States forces accountability and punishes wrongdoing, even at the highest levels.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Dirty, Reality, America

  "Pssst... Nobody Loves a Torturer". www.newsweek.com. November 13, 2005.

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• The first impression and a natural one is, that the fine arts have risen or declined in proportion as patronage has been given to them or withdrawn, but it will be found that there has often been more money lavished on them in their worst periods than in their best, and that the highest honours have frequently been bestowed on artists whose names are scarcely now known.

  John Constable

  Art, Names, First Impression

  John Constable (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of John Constable (Illustrated)”, p.599, Delphi Classics

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• Every selfish motive therefore, every family attachment, ought to recommend such a system of policy as would provide no less carefully for the rights and happiness of the lowest than of the highest orders of Citizens.

  George Mason

  Selfish, Attachment, Order

  "The Journal of the Debates in the Convention which Framed the Constitution of the United States, May-September, 1787", Volume 2, as recorded by James Madison, 1908.

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• The cross of Christ is the pledge to us that the deepest suffering may be the condition of the highest blessing; the sign, not of God's displeasure, but of His widest and most compassionate face.

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

  Blessing, Suffering, May

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 568), 1895.

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