Safety lies in tending towards our highest and not in resting content with an inferior potentiality..... To rest in or follow after… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
The idea of duty--that recognition of something to be lived for beyond the mere satisfaction of self--is to the moral life what… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The materialistic idealism that governs American life, that on the one hand makes a chariot of every grocery wagon, and on the… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
What chiefly distinguishes the daily press is its incurable fear of ideas, its constant effort to evade the discussion of fundamentals by… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Our sex bears the disgrace not only of a great deal of genuine poltroonery, but also of much which is mere affectation. — Frances Power Cobbe Copy Share Image
It is therefore not true that the mere existence of the Soviet Union is capable of assuring the victory of the revolution… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Good teachers are not known for telling you what you want to hear, and consequently they're rarely popular because they tend to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Our principles fix what our life stands for, our aims create the light our life is bathed in, and our rationality, both… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
There is not a single true chess-player in the world whose heart does not beat faster at the mere sound of such… — David Bronstein Copy Share Image
It is the inefficiency and sham of ... our schools ... that save us from being dashed on the rocks of false… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A people among whom there is no habit of spontaneous action for a collective interest - who look habitually to their government… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
There is not in all America a more dangerous trait than the deification of mere smartness unaccompanied by any sense of moral… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
When I adjust materials of different kinds to one another, I have taken a step in advance of mere oil painting, for… — Kurt Schwitters Copy Share Image
The cross is not a mere event in history; it's a way of life! Take up your cross DAILY, Jesus said! — John Piper Copy Share Image
The mere size of the brain has been proved to be no measure of superiority. The woman has greater moral courage than… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
A new question for the psychotherapist to ask is whether a theory can go beyond mere effectiveness in achieving either a so-called… — Erving Polster Copy Share Image
The man who is gloomy, taciturn and lives in a world of doubt seldom achieves more than a bare living. There have… — Douglas Fairbanks Copy Share Image
In an ancient and dead language, any recognition of living nature attracts us. These are such sentences as were written while grass… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I am deeply distressed by what I only can call in our Christian culture the idolatry of the Scriptures. For many Christians,… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Every one may know that to will and not to do, when there is opportunity, is in reality not to will; and… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
Professors will lecture with more inspiration if they occasionally alternate the classroom with the beach: authors will write better when, as Macaulay… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
