Highest Quotes

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Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals. — Aldo Leopold
The highest, most decisive experience is to be alone with one's own self. You must be alone to find out what supports you, when you… — Carl Jung
Religion has everything on its side: revelation, prophecies, government protection, the highest dignity and eminence. . . and more than this, the invaluable prerogative of… — Irvin D. Yalom
As to...old composers like Schubert or Beethoven, I imagine that, while modern music expresses both feeling, thought and imagination, they expressed pure feeling. And you… — C.S. Lewis
There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It can be built… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Sorrow, terror, anguish, despair itself are often the chosen expressions of an approximation to the highest good. Our sympathy in tragic fiction depends on this… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Humility, the place of entire dependence on God, is the first duty and the highest virtue of the creature, and the root of every virtue.… — Andrew Murray
XXVIII "Truth," said a traveller, "Is a rock, a mighty fortress; "Often have I been to it, "Even to its highest tower, "From whence the… — Stephen Crane
There are things we don't do. From this moment forth, let us all ensure our every action reflects well on us and our ancestors. Let… — Jack Campbell
The twentieth-century conservative is concerned, first of all, for the regeneration of the spirit and character – with the perennial problem of the inner order… — Russell Kirk
It is my great hope someday, to see science and decision makers rediscover what the ancients have always known. Namely that our highest currency is… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
God doesn't work on our timetable. He has a plan that He will execute perfectly and for the highest, greatest good of all, and for… — Charles R. Swindoll
The highest point at which human life and art meet is in the ordinary. To look down on the ordinary is to despise what you… — Yukio Mishima
The highest truths a person could discover were rooted in the natural world. — Anne Rice
I told you I would tell you my names. This is what they call me. I'm called Glad-of-War, Grim, Raider, and Third. I am One-Eyed.… — Neil Gaiman
Our highest endeavor must be to develop free human beings who are able of themselves to impart purpose and direction to their lives. The need… — Rudolf Steiner
Principles are what people have instead of God. To be a Christian means among other things to be willing if necessary to sacrifice even your… — Frederick Buechner
Since love of God is the highest felicity and happiness of man, his final end and the aim of all his actions, it follows that… — Baruch Spinoza
[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in… — David Graeber
Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe — Oprah Winfrey
A wise man once said that all human activity is a form of play. And the highest form of play is the search for Truth,… — Arthur C. Clarke
The highest branch of solitary amusement is reading; but even in the choice of books the fancy is first employed; for in reading, the heart… — Mary Wollstonecraft
Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained… — Oscar Wilde
May today be peace within. May you trust your highest power that you are exactly where you are meant to be... May you not forget… — Mother Teresa
The universe is not for man alone, but is a theater of evolution for all living beings. Live and let live is its guiding principle.… — Virchand Gandhi

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