Sole Quotes

• The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspirational, Life, Humanity

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “The Kingdom of God Is Within You”, p.269, Xist Publishing

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  Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

  Jane Addams

  Expression, Code Of Ethics, Hull House

  Jane Addams (2016). “Democracy and Social Ethics”, p.128, Youcanprint

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• Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Beauty, Ambition, Goal

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• It should be one’s sole endeavor to see everything afresh and create it anew.

  Gustav Mahler

  Should, Endeavor

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• As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

  Carl Jung

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Memories, Dreams, Reflections ch. 11 (1962)

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• The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

  Sophocles

  Inspirational, Honesty, Pain

  "Oedipus Rex". Play by Sophocles, Line 1184,

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• The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.

  Blaise Pascal

  Math, Men, Doe

  c.1654-1662 Pense es, no.139 (translated byA Krailsheimer).

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• Religion has nothing to do with compassion; it is our love for God that is the main thing because we have all been created for the sole purpose to love and be loved.

  Mother Teresa

  Compassion, Purpose, Our Love

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• Whatever you do for the sole purpose of having others admire you, your efforts will most likely be in vain.

  Dave Pelzer

  Effort, Purpose, Vain

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• Music is the sole art which evokes nostalgia for the future.

  Ned Rorem

  Art, Nostalgia, Evoke

  Ned Rorem (2013). “Setting the Tone: Essays and a Diary”, p.245, Open Road Media

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• I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and the sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal.

  Roger Nash Baldwin

  Class, Goal, Wealth

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• We cannot suppose therefore that God has made an order of beings, with such mental qualities and powers, for the sole purpose of being used as beasts, or instruments of labour.

  Thomas Clarkson

  Order, Quality, Purpose

  Thomas Clarkson, Ottobah Cugoano (2010). “Thomas Clarkson and Ottobah Cugoano: Essays on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species”, Broadview Press

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• The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience.

  Lech Walesa

  Truth, People, Dignity

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• After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Sarcastic, Laughter, Humorous

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• Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.

  Federico Fellini

  Movie, Gambling, Would Be

  The Atlantic, December 1965.

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• The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.

  Marquis de Sade

  Ideas, Forgiving, Religion

  Sade (marquis de), Marquis de Sade (1987). “The 120 days of Sodom and other writings”, Grove Pr

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• The field is the sole influence of the particle.

  Albert Einstein

  Mind Your Own Business, Fields, Influence

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• Ere Babylon was dust, The Magus Zoroaster, my dead child, Met his own image walking in the garden, That apparition, sole of men, he saw.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Children, Men, Garden

  'Prometheus Unbound' (1819) act 1, l. 191

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• Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end. The exclusivism of there being only one way in which we can be saved, the idea that there is a single religious group that is in sole possession of the truth—that is the world as we know it that must pass away. What is the kingdom? It lies in our realization of the ubiquity of the divine presence in our neighbors, in our enemies, in all of us.

  Joseph Campbell

  Religious, Lying, Ignorance

  "Thou Art that: Transforming Religious Metaphor".

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• Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

  James F. Cooper

  Party, Purpose, Politics

  "The American Democrat: Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Book by James Fenimore Cooper, 1838.

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• The one sole thing in myself in which I glory is that I see in myself nothing in which I can glory.

  Catherine of Genoa

  Glory, I Can

  Saint Catherine (of Genoa), Paul Garvin (1964). “The life and sayings of Saint Catherine of Genoa”

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• Experiment is the sole interpreter of the artifices of Nature.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Experiments, Artifice, Interpreter

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• The sole purpose and effect of it is to exclude persecution and to secure the important right of religious liberty.

  Oliver Ellsworth

  Religious, Important, Atheism

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• The sole missing link is the recognition that the acquisition of capital ownership by the millions is an indispensable goal. That is the turning point - our recognition of the proper goal.

  Louis O. Kelso

  Wisdom, Goal, Missing

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• Our assurance, our glory, and the sole anchor of our salvation are that Christ the Son of God is ours, and we in turn are in him sons of God and heirs of the Kingdom of Heaven, called to the hope of eternal blessedness by God's grace, not by our worth.

  John Calvin

  Son, Anchors, Heaven

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