Highest Quotes

2429 quotes by 1578 authors

But as in landlessness alone resides the highest truth, shoreless, indefinite as God - so better is it to perish in that howling infinite, than… — Herman Melville
Whatever is the lot of humankind I want to taste within my deepest self. I want to seize the highest and the lowest, to load… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What people regard as vanityâ€”leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one's name from being forgottenâ€”I regard as the… — Paulo Coelho
The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law and particularly to deny him the… — Winston Churchill
Human life is something that comes to us from beyond this world, and the purpose of our society is to cherish it and to enable… — Harry S. Truman
Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already am. That I will never fulfill my obligation… — Thomas Merton
But then he told himself: What does it really mean to be useful? Today's world, just as it is, contains the sum of the utility… — Milan Kundera
A human soul devoid of longing was a soul deformed, deprived of its highest good, sick unto death. — Saul Bellow
To write with taste, in the highest sense, is to write [...] so that no one commits suicide, no one despairs; to write [...] so… — John Gardner
For the value of everything exists for man only so long as he does not understand it. When he has fully understood, the value is… — Hazrat Inayat Khan
...Every ego so far from being a unity is in the highest degree a manifold world, a constellated heaven, a chaos of forms, of states… — Hermann Hesse
The public loves to create a hero....Sometimes I think they do it for the sheer joy of knocking him down from the highest peak. Like… — Grace Metalious
Kilimanjaro is a snow-covered mountain 19,710 feet high, and is said to be the highest mountain in Africa. Its western summit is called the Masai… — Ernest Hemingway
Both Matilda and Lavender were enthralled. It was quite clear to them that they were at this moment standing in the presence of a master.… — Roald Dahl
The Christian's whole desire, at its best and highest, is that Jesus Christ be praised. It is always a wretched bastardization of our goals when… — D. A. Carson
The point is, not to resist the flow. You go up when you're supposed to go up and down when you're supposed to go down.… — Haruki Murakami
The Local Paper here asked that me books be banned........THE HIGHEST PRAISE for an Irish writer. — Ken Bruen
The frog is almost five hundred million years old. Could you really say with much certainty that America, with all its strength and prosperity, with… — Joseph Heller
Because, you see, Godâ€”whatever anyone chooses to call Godâ€”is one's highest conception of the highest possible. And whoever places his highest conception above his own… — Ayn Rand
Since God is the highest good, he would not allow any evil to exist in his works unless his omnipotence and goodness were such as… — Saint Augustine

Who Wrote These Highest Quotes

1,578 authors contributed a total of 2,429 Highest Quotes, led by these top contributors: