Highest Quotes

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The artistic experience, at its highest, was actually a natural analogue of mystical experience. It produced a kind of intuitive of perception. — Thomas Merton
Beauty is the highest of all these occult influences, the quality of appearances that thru' the sense wakeneth spiritual emotion in the mind of man. — Robert Bridges
Go first to your highest thought about yourself. Imagine the you that you would be if you lived that thought every day. Imagine what you… — Neale Donald Walsch
To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree — Charles Darwin
In the real world of competition, the players want to compete and they want to compete at the very highest level. — Vince McMahon
That amid our highest civilization men faint and die with want is not due to the niggardliness of nature, but to the injustice of man. — Henry George
Service is the highest spiritual discipline. Prayer and meditation, or knowledge of scripture and Vedanta (holy scriptures of India), cannot help you reach the goal… — Sathya Sai Baba
The world's 'freeest' country has the highest number in prison. — Arundhati Roy
Here on the edge of the river, the motifs are very plentiful, the same subject seen from a different angle gives a subject for study… — Paul Cezanne
It is to Titian we must turn our eyes to find excellence with regard to color, and light and shade, in the highest degree. He… — Joshua Reynolds
There is a man whose qualities can be savored by people who are getting old... The painter qualities are carried to the highest point in… — Eugene Delacroix
Courage, the highest gift, that scorns to bend To mean devices for a sordid end. Courage--an independent spark from Heaven's bright throne, By which the… — George Farquhar
I think there is no work of art which represents the spirit of a nation more surely than "Die Meister Singer" of Richard Wagner. Here… — Ralph Vaughan Williams
I never work with an audience - I can't do this. The process depends on the highest degree of nervous concentration. — Frank Auerbach
The full-grown modern human being ... is conscious of touching the highest pinnacle of fulfillment... when he is consumed in the service of an idea,… — Robert Briffault
Flow occurs in your life when your highest skills are matched to challenges that quite exactly meet them. — Martin Seligman
If you begin with the middle-tone and work up from it toward the darks so that you deal last with your highest lights and darkest… — John Singer Sargent
It's been a horrifying academic secret for decades that the children who walk away with the highest formal honors, the valedictorians and National Merit Scholars,… — John Taylor Gatto
Hunger is the worst of diseases, the body the greatest of pains; if one knows this truly, that is Nirv?na, the highest happiness. — Max Muller
To read Wilson.. is to be instructed and amused in the highest sense - that is, to be educated. — James Atlas
Tom DeLay himself has never been the issue. DeLay is a symptom of a larger disease?a sick Republican culture of corruption that touches everyone who… — Howard Dean
The TSA holds its screener work force to the highest standards of security and professionalism, .. and will continue to focus on these principles as… — Robert Johnson
The classicist, and the naturalist who has much in common with him, refuse to see in the highest works of art anything but the exercise… — Herbert Read
The presentation of the Golden Badge of the Movement is the highest honor the Third Reich has to offer. — Hjalmar Schacht
I wish to be of service to the artists of our own day, by showing them how a small beginning leads to the highest elevation,… — Giorgio Vasari

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