Aims Quotes
370 quotes by 295 authors
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The aims of pure basic science, unlike those of applied science, are neither fast-flowing nor pragmatic. The quick harvest of applied science is the useable…
— Unknown Author
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Creationists who want religious ideas taught as scientific fact in public schools continue to adapt to courtroom defeats by hiding their true aims under ever…
— Eugenie Scott
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...it was always our view that in order to attain this [proletarian revolution] and the other far more important aims of the future social revolution,…
— Friedrich Engels
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It is certain that stealing nourishes courage, strength, skill, tact, in a word, all the virtues useful to a republican system and consequently to our…
— Marquis de Sade
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Discipline is no longer literal obedience but intelligent obedience, for discipline aims at obedience coupled with activity of will. Once discipline weakens and vanishes, as…
— J F C Fuller
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The ordinary patient goes to his doctor because he is in pain or some other discomfort and wants to be comfortable again; he is not…
— Wilfred Trotter
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And here we come to the vital distinction between the advocacy of temperance and the advocacy of prohibition. Temperance and self-control are convertible terms. Prohibition,…
— Felix Mendelssohn
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Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory. That in art is highest which aims at this.
— Michelangelo
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An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.
— Eduard Hanslick
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In regard to the past, where contemplation is not obscured by desire and the need for action, we see, more clearly than in the lives…
— Bertrand Russell
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Patriotism in its simplest, clearest, and most indubitable meaning is nothing but an instrument for the attainment of the government's ambitious and mercenary aims, and…
— Leo Tolstoy
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This is the practice school of writing. Like running, the more you do it, the better you get at it. Some days you don't want…
— Natalie Goldberg
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Man's home is nature; his purposes and aims are dependent for execution upon natural conditions. Separated from such conditions they become empty dreams and idle…
— John Dewey
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The wonder of nature does not become smaller because one cannot measure it by the standards of human moral and human aims.
— Albert Einstein
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Better use has been made of association and this powerful instrument of action has been applied for more varied aims in America than anywhere else…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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To be come fully alive a person must have goals and aims that transcend himself.
— Herbert Otto Gille
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Moreover, the accomplishment of Russia's aims has been greatly simplified by the fact that we have heretofore offered the world no practical antidote for the…
— James Forrestal
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Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier. In the divided or social state these functions are parcelled out to individuals, each…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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But as the plan of the convention aims only at a partial union or consolidation, the State governments would clearly retain all the rights of…
— Alexander Hamilton
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But could not our situation be compared to one of a menacing epidemic? People are unable to view this situation in its true light, for…
— Albert Einstein
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