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- For contemplation is both the highest form of activity (since the intellect is the highest thing in us, and the objects that… — Aristotle
- When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality, they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements… — Simone Weil
- The highest things, the things that really matter, we cannot achieve on our own; we have to accept them as gifts and… — Pope Benedict XVI
- The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a… — Margaret Mead
- If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom. — Leo Strauss
- Let some holy ambition invade our souls, so that, dissatisfied with mediocrity, we shall eagerly desire the highest things and shall toil… — Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
- Yes, the highest things are beyond words. That is probably why all art aspires to the condition of wordlessness. When literature works… — Ben Okri
- It may well happen that what is in itself the more certain on account of the weakness of our intelligence, which is… — Thomas Aquinas