Ultimate Quotes - Page 34

• I want to strip my work of 'effects' until it stands monolithic, based on reality and yet transcending it. It must flow naturally from my materials, from the way of the chisel and the way of the block... It is the ultimate ideal.

  Shiko Munakata

  Block, Reality, Way

  Shikō Munakata (1991). “The Woodblock and the Artist: The Life and Work of Shiko Munakata”

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• The New Age movement, for all the validity of its protest and the value of some of its recommendations, is in truth a very old blind alley. There is a very long history to remind us of what happens when nature is our ultimate point of reference . . . . Nature knows no ethics. There is no right and wrong in nature; the controlling realities are power and fertility.

  Lesslie Newbigin

  Reality, Long, Age

  Lesslie Newbigin (1991). “Truth to Tell: The Gospel as Public Truth”

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• Blood sport is brought to its ultimate refinement in the gossip columns.

  Bernard Ingham

  Sports, Blood, Gossip

  1986 Speech, 5 Feb.

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• The ultimate aim of politics is not politics, but the activities which can be practised within the political framework of the State. Therefore an effective statement of these activities - e.g. science, art, religion - is in itself a declaration of ultimate aims around which the political means will crystallise... a society with no values outside of politics is a machine carrying its human cargo, with no purpose in its institutions reflecting their care, eternal aspirations, loneliness, need for love.

  Stephen Spender

  Art, Loneliness, Mean

  "Life and the Poet". Book by Stephen Spender, 1942.

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• Nevertheless, the ultimate business of philosophy is to preserve the force of the most elemental words in which Dasein expresses itself, and to keep the common understanding from levelling them off to that unintelligibility which functions in turn as a source of pseudo-problems.

  Martin Heidegger

  Philosophy, Understanding, Pseudo

  "Being and Time". Book by Martin Heidegger, translated by Macquarrie and Robinson, 1962.

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• In life nothing is taken to its ultimate conclusion, life is a half-way house, a place of obligatory compromise; and, in dealing in logical conclusions, a man steps out of life -- or so it would be quite legitimate to argue.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Taken, Men, House

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• For the judging of contemporary literature the only test is one's personal taste. If you much like a new book, you must call it literature even though you find no other soul to agree with you, and if you dislike a book you must declare that it is not literature though a million voices should shout you that you are wrong. The ultimate decision will be made by Time.

  Ford Madox Ford

  Book, Voice, Judging

  Ford Madox Ford (1938). “The March of Literature: From Confucius' Day to Our Own”, p.11, Dalkey Archive Press

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• People ... become so preoccupied with the means by which an end is achieved, as eventually to mistake it for the end. Just as money, which is a means of satisfying wants, comes to be regarded by a miser as the sole thing to be worked for, leaving the wants unsatisfied; so the conduct men have found preferable because most conducive to happiness, has come to be thought of as intrinsically preferable: not only to be made a proximate end (which it should be), but to be made an ultimate end, to the exclusion of the true ultimate end.

  Herbert Spencer

  Mistake, Mean, Men

  "The Principles of Ethics" by Herbert Spencer, New York, (§ 14, pp. 38-39), 1915.

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• My ultimate dream is to sow seeds in the desert. To revegetate the deserts is to sow seed in people's hearts.

  Masanobu Fukuoka

  Dream, Heart, People

  "The Road Back to Nature". Book by Masanobu Fukuoka, 1987.

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• The way to experience ultimate happiness is to let go of all worries and regrets, and to know that being happy is the most satisfying of life's feelings. Reflect back on all the progress in your life and allow the positive, creative and joyous thoughts to outshine and overwhelm any sorrow or grief that may linger in the recesses of your mind. Knowing that disease and disaster are natural parts of life is the key to overcoming adversity with a calm and happy spirit. Happiness is waiting there in front of you. Only you can decide whether or not you choose to experience it. Take this to heart.

  Toshitsugu Takamatsu

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Any conversation I have about innovation starts with the ultimate goal.

  Sergey Brin

  Goal, Innovation, Conversation

  "Secrets of a Nimble Giant". Interview with Jemima Kiss, www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2009.

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• The Ultimate and Highest leave taking is leaving God for GOD, leaving your notion of God for an Experience of That which transcends all notions.

  Meister Eckhart

  Leaving, Notion, Highest

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• My abyss speaks, I have turned my ultimate depth inside out into the light.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Light, Depth, Speak

  "The Portable Nietzsche".

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• Under all that we think, lives all we believe, like the ultimate veil of our spirits

  Antonio Machado

  Inspirational, Believe, Thinking

  Antonio Machado (1963). “Juan de Mairena”, Univ of California Press

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• The ultimate ground of faith and knowledge is confidence in God.

  Charles Hodge

  Confidence In God

  CHARLES HODGE (1873). “SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY.”, p.52

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• Everybody has got 5.5 liters of blood. I am just a human being. For me everybody the same. There are thousands and thousands of people suffering. What is the ultimate purpose of life? It's to give. Start giving. See the joy of giving.

  Narayanan Krishnan

  Blood, People, Giving

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• Vocal music is an attempt to take the whole human being and project it into space. It is the ultimate gesture of getting out of yourself. You take a part of you that is most private, most personal, most inward and you hurl it out into space - you project it as far as you can. That gesture of opining this whole region of the body results in an enormous spiritual release, and is felt by other people with tremendous impact.

  Peter Sellers

  Spiritual, Impact, Space

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• The ultimate tyranny in a society is not control by martial law. It is control by the psychological manipulation of consciousness, through which reality is defined so that those who exist within it do not even realize that they are in prison. They do not even realize that there is something outside of where they exist.

  Barbara Marciniak

  Reality, Law, Manipulation

  Barbara Marciniak (1992). “Bringers of the Dawn: Teachings from the Pleiadians”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

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• What he [Michael Jackson] did was he allowed us, through his voice and his instrument, to see a glimpse of the heaven that he himself was denied. That sacrifice was the ultimate source of redemption that he gave to us.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Sacrifice, Voice, Heaven

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It (Hinduism) is like the boa constrictor of the Indian forests. When a petty enemy appears to worry it, it winds round its opponent, crushes it in its folds, and finally causes it to disappear in its capaciousinterior....Hinduism has embraced Sikhism in its folds; the still comparatively young religion is making a vigorous struggle for life, but its ultimate destruction is, it is apprehended, inevitable without State support.

  Max Arthur Macauliffe

  Crush, Struggle, Wind

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• Good Friday and Easter free us to think about other things far beyond our own personal fate, about the ultimate meaning of all life, suffering, and events; and we lay hold of a great hope.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Friday, Easter, Fate

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2011). “Letters Papers from Prison”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• Whatever you wish to experience in your own lifetime, cause another to experience in theirs. What you bring to another, you bring to the Self, for there is no other in ultimate reality.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Reality, Self, Wish

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Apr 17, 2017

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• It [doesn't matter] what you look like, where you come from, or what you do for a living. All that matters is that we continue to fan the flame of humanity by living our lives as the ultimate creative expression of who we really are.

  Janine Shepherd

  Motivation, Inspiration, Expression

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• In reviewing the most mysterious doctrines of revelation, the ultimate appeal is to reason, not to determine whether she could have discovered these truths; not to declare whether, considered in themselves, they appear probable; but to decide whether it is not more reasonable to believe what God speaks than to confide in our own crude and feeble conceptions. No doctrine can be a proper object of our faith, which is not more reasonable to believe than to reject.

  Archibald Alexander

  Believe, Doctrine, Faith In God

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• Once you're back on your feet - if you ever make it back on your feet - that's the ultimate achievement. I remember I was in New York at the Trump Hotel and I woke up and I just knew I was over it. It was a different day. I felt different. I didn't feel lonely. I felt like I wanted to get up and be in the world. That was a great, great feeling.

  Rihanna

  Lonely, New York, Feet

  "Rihanna on Chris Brown: 'I Needed That Wake-Up Call', www.usmagazine.com. October 26, 2010.

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