Ultimate Quotes

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The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendour cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate; those soft intervals of unbended… — Samuel Johnson
To consider judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions is a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the… — Thomas Jefferson
The religious urge in man is not a mere passing phase in the history of his spiritual development, but the ultimate source of all his… — Muhammad Asad
There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force,… — Ayn Rand
History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline. There has been… — Douglas MacArthur
The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it. — Felix Frankfurter
There is no greater fallacy than the belief that aims and purposes are one thing, while methods and tactics are another ... All human experience… — Emma Goldman
Desire is the presentiment of our inner abilities, and the forerunner of our ultimate accomplishments. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is God who is the ultimate reason things, and the Knowledge of God is no less the beginning of science than his essence and… — Gottfried Leibniz
All knowledge has an ultimate goal. Knowledge for the sake of knowledge is, say what you will, nothing but a dismal begging of the question. — Miguel de Unamuno
Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. Nearly all men of science, all men of learning for that matter, and men of simple ways… — Vannevar Bush
The scientist knows very well that he is approaching ultimate truth only in an asymptotic curve and is barred from ever reaching it; but at… — Konrad Lorenz
Sociology should... be thought of as a science of action-of the ultimate common value element in its relations to the other elements of action. — Talcott Parsons
While Newton seemed to draw off the veil from some of the mysteries of nature, he showed at the same time the imperfections of the… — David Hume
I did say, at Chicago, in my speech there, that I do wish to see the spread of slavery arrested and to see it placed… — Abraham Lincoln
In the way our Fathers originally left the slavery question, the institution was in the course of ultimate extinction, and the public mind rested in… — Abraham Lincoln
The loneliest moment in life is when you have just experienced that which you thought would deliver the ultimate, and it has just let you… — Ravi Zacharias
Religions lead us to believe that the soul is the ultimate family jewel and that in return for our mindless obedience, they can secure it… — Tom Robbins
It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory of fashion that heralds your arrival and prolongs your departure. — Coco Chanel
Bliss follows witnessing - and that is going to be your meditation. Witness your body as separate, witness your mind as separate. Remain rooted in… — Rajneesh

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