Attained Quotes

394 quotes by 282 authors

If we go on to cast a look at the fate of world historical personalities... we shall find it to have been no happy one.… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The rosy hearth, the lamplight's narrow beam, The meditation that is rather dream, With looks that lose themselves in cherished looks; The hour of steaming… — Paul Verlaine
Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough! But it was… — Hermann Hesse
You have attained maturity; display it for us, if you please. — MaryJanice Davidson
We patronize the animals for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly… — Henry Beston
The road and the tale have both been long, would you not say so? The trip has been long and the cost has been high...… — Stephen King
the tragedy of an attachment is that if its object is not attained it causes unhappiness. But if it is attained, it does not cause… — Anthony de Mello
I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life. They seek position, marriage,… — Carl Jung
Gide and I have attained such perfect intellectual communion that I experience the appropriate labor pains for every thought he gives birth to! — Susan Sontag
You think the end justifies the means, however vile. I tell you: the end is the means by which you achieve it. Today's step is… — Wilhelm Reich
specialists without spirit, sensualists without heart; this nullity imagines that it has attained a level of civilization never before achieved. — Max Weber
The animal should not be measured by man. In a world older than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the sense… — Henry Beston
Distance... is like futurity. A dim vastness is spread before our souls; the perceptions of our mind are as obscure as those of our vision...… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is not easy to be at peace in todayâ€™s troubled world. Necessarily peace is a personal acquisition. â€¦ It can be attained only through… — Spencer W. Kimball
What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost? — Soren Kierkegaard
For most of us, for almost all of us, truth can be attained, if at all, only in silence. It is in silence that the… — Iris Murdoch
The difference between magic and meditation methods is the difference between drugs and dietâ€”medicines will do swiftly what diet can only effect slowly, and in… — Dion Fortune
By puberty I learned that nothing worth having could be easily attained and to succeed one must be single minded. — Russell Brand
Maybe that is the best lesson I learned in my first semester at Yale, because if I had gone to a less-demanding school and continued… — Benjamin Carson
Coarse rice to eat, water to drink, my bended arm for a pillow - therein is happiness. Wealth and rank attained through immoral means are… — Confucius

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