Attained Quotes

394 quotes by 295 authors

It would be difficult, indeed, to overestimate the transcendent importance of the part the railroad has played in making the Nation what it is to-day.… — Charles Frederick Carter
A penny here, and a dollar there, placed at interest, goes on accumulating, and in this way the desired result is attained. It requires some… — P T Barnum
Theta clearing is about as practical and simple as repairing a shoe lace. It is nothing to do with hypnotism, voodooism, charalatanism, monkeyism or theosophy.… — L. Ron Hubbard
What has been attained may again be lost. Only when you realise the true peace, the peace you have never lost, that peace will remain… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
It is also an absolute mistake to believe that the State can be anything other than a civitas diaboli if it does not resurrect itself… — Julius Evola
If any of [my stories] succeed in causing their readers to feel pleasantly uncomfortable when walking along a solitary road at nightfall, or sitting over… — M. R. James
The acquirement and enjoyment of physical well-being, mental calm and spiritual peace are priceless to their possessors if there be any such so fortunate living… — Joseph Pilates
Through the Pilates Method of Body Conditioning this unique trinity of a balanced body, mind and spirit can ever be attained. Self-confidence follows. — Joseph Pilates
Science asks no questions about the ontological pedigree or a priori character of a theory, but is content to judge it by its performance; and… — Chauncey Wright
Happiness is attained, not through self-interest, but through unconditional fidelity in endless love of eternal light. — Aaron Cohen
I believe that the formation of the Chekas was one of the gravest and most impermissible errors that the Bolshevik leaders committed in 1918 when… — Victor Serge
Physical separateness can never be overcome by electronics, but only by 'conviviality,' by 'living together' in the most literal physical sense. The physically divided are… — Hakim Bey
Purity is something that cannot be attained except by piling effort upon effort. — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
So important , indeed, is it (Light), and so much does it pervade with its influence the whole Masonic system, that Freemasonry itself anciently received,… — Albert Mackey
A man who has attained mastery of an art reveals it in his every action. — Gogen Yamaguchi
I think schools, as they are now regulated, the hot-beds of vice and folly, and the knowledge of human nature supposedly attained there, merely cunning… — Mary Wollstonecraft
There are few of us so blind as not to realize that unless the moral force of religious conviction impels, the goal of truth and… — Sumner Welles
I do not seek redemption from the consequences of my sin. I seek to be redeemed from sin itself. Until I have attained that end,… — Mahatma Gandhi
I'll tell you what I'd do if it were up to me: I would establish a strictly controlled distribution network through which I would make… — George Soros
Liberty and equality, spontaneity and security, happiness and knowledge, mercy and justice - all these are ultimate human values, sought for themselves alone; yet when… — Isaiah Berlin

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