Highest Quotes

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Constitutions become the ultimate tyranny," Paul said. "They’re organized power on such a scale as to be overwhelming. The constitution is social power mobilized and… — Frank Herbert
I know in whom all my highest hopes and dearest joys are centered. I know in whom my whole heart can rest — so sweetly… — Joshua Chamberlain
It has always seemed absurd to suppose that a god would choose for his companions, during all eternity, the dear souls whose highest and only… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on earth unarmed. His brain is his only weapon. Animals obtain food by force. man had… — Ayn Rand
I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it sis my duty ... This is… — Ben Stein
For the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final… — Viktor E. Frankl
The Highest Thought is always that thought which contains joy. The Clearest Words are those words which contain truth. The Grandest Feeling is that feeling… — Neale Donald Walsch
Although we read with our minds, the seat of artistic delight is between the shoulder blades. That little shiver behind is quite certainly the highest… — Vladimir Nabokov
It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how… — Nelson Mandela
I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a… — Elizabeth Gilbert
We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom. — Leo Tolstoy
I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities. — Ayn Rand
Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its highest. Live in fragments no… — E. M. Forster
Although we were not able to shatter that highest and hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you it has 18 million cracks in it,… — Hillary Clinton
Friendship is the purest love. It is the highest form of Love where nothing is asked for, no condition, where one simply enjoys giving. — Rajneesh
Thought that can merge wholly into feeling, feeling that can merge wholly into thought - these are the artist's highest joy. — Thomas Mann
You must know nothing before you can learn something, and be empty before you can be filled. Is not the emptiness of the bowl what… — Lloyd Alexander
To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for… — Charles Darwin
To evade such temptations is the first duty of the poet. For as the ear is the antechamber to the soul, poetry can adulterate and… — Virginia Woolf
God is the highest good of the reasonable creature. The enjoyment of him is our proper; and is the only happiness with which our souls… — Jonathan Edwards
Living apart and at peace with myself,I came to realize more vividly the meaning of the doctrine of acceptance. To refrain from giving advice, to… — Henry Miller
We...believe that art is religious, because it is one of man's highest aspirations. There is no such thing as pagan art, only good and bad… — Irving Stone
Tereza's mother never stopped reminding her that being a mother meant sacrificing everything. Her words had the ring of truth, backed as they were by… — Milan Kundera
I think one of the highest compliments you can give a person is that when you are talking to him, you are not thinking about… — David Levithan
When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...]. — Simone de Beauvoir

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