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Aim Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.
- Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.
- Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other…
- The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.
- The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead…
- The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society.
- The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible.
- [T]he recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses. It has led Individualism entirely…
- The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
- The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate…
- Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.
- The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.
- There was something terribly enthralling in the exercise of influence. No other activity was like it. To project one's soul into some gracious form, and…
- Ah! realize your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure,…
- Love does not traffic in a marketplace, nor use a huckster's scales. Its joy, like the joy of the intellect, is to feel itself alive.…
- The aim of love is to love: no more, and no less.
- To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim
- The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly -- that is what each of us is here for. People are afraid of…
More Aim Quotes
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
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- If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in life is… — David Attenborough
- Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim. — Jane Austen
- The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the… — Johann Sebastian Bach
- A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim. — Robert Baden-Powell
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- Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in… — Jacques Barzun