T Quotes
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“The Highest Being reveals himself in man.”
Source: Sartor Resartus
“The highest benevolence acts without purpose.”
“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 is touched, till its feelings are examined by the understanding, and the ripening of reason regulate the imagination. This is the work of years, and the most important of all employments.”
“The highest calling of leadership is to unlock the potential of others.”
“The highest cannot be spoken; it can only be acted.”
“The highest cards have men on them.” María can see that. There are men holding clubs. Men holding swords. Men holding coins. Men holding cups. “Where are the women?” she asks, and Ysabel only laughs, as if it were a joke.”
Source: Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
“The highest challenge inside organizations is to enable each person to contribute his or her unique talents and passion to accomplish the organization's purpose.”
“The highest civilizations -- the longest to last and I believe the most successful in human terms -- are those which have come the closest to achieving real understanding and mutual appreciation between men and women.”
“The highest compact we can make with our fellow is -
"Let there be truth between us two forevermore."”
Source: The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life
“The highest compliment I can give a science fiction book is that it's 'plausibly surreal' - it manages to feel like a relentless extrapolation from today even as it overwhelms with unexpected consequences of that extrapolation.”
“The highest compliment I could ever receive about my kids - and I can say that this does happen frequently - is when the in-flight crew say to me, 'Your children are wonderful. They are so well-behaved.' Every time I am told that, I could weep.”
“The highest compliment one can be paid by another human being is to be told: 'Because of what you are, you are essential to my happiness.'”
Source: Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
“The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.”
“The highest compliment we can give to God, our Creator, is to thoroughly enjoy the gift of life. One should never look a gift universe in the mouth! The best way to pay for a beautiful moment is to enjoy it.”
“The highest compliments leaders can receive are those that are given by the people who work for them.”
“The highest condition takes rise in the lowest.”
“The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is”
“The highest courage is to dare to be yourself in the face of adversity. Choosing right over wrong, ethic over convenience, and truth over popularity ... these are choices that measure your life. Travel the path of integrity without looking back, for there is never a wrong time to do the right thing.”
“The highest court is in the end one’s own conscience and conviction—that goes for you and for Einstein and every other physicist—and before any science there is first of all belief.”
Source: Dilemmas of an Upright Man: Max Planck and the Fortunes of German Science
“The highest court is in the end one's own conscience and conviction-that goes for you and for Einstein and every other physicist-and before any science there is first of all belief. For me, it is belief in a complete lawfulness in everything that happens.”
“The highest creed is Universal Acceptance.”
“The highest culture is not obtained from the teacher when at school or college, so much as by our ever diligent self-education when we become men.”
“The highest degree of a medicine is Love.”
“The highest degree of beauty is found on dark skin; that of ugliness, on light skin.”
“The highest degree of human attainment comes when a person is blissfully at peace with his or her own nature and the natural world.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“The highest degree of love is Tatayyum (total enthrallment). The lowest degree is 'alaqah (attachment), when the heart is attached to the beloved: then comes sabahah (infatuation), when the heart is poured out: then gharam (passion), when love never leaves the heart: the nashaq (ardent love), and finally tatayyum.”
“The highest degree of meekness consists in seeing, serving, honoring, and treating amiably, on occasion, those who are not to our taste, and who show themselves unfriendly, ungrateful, and troublesome to us.”
“The highest destiny of any individual is not in his fortune but in his misfortune”
“The highest development was in the Egyptian and Cabalistic systems, and it was blended with Christian thought in the schools of the Neo-Platonists and the Gnostics...Its studies were only kept alive during the Dark Ages among the Jews who were the chief exponents of its Cabalistic aspect...and it is still alive today.”
“The highest disciplined mind, is the highest disturbed as well as dangerous mind.”
“The highest distinction is service to others.”
“The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom - that deed and word should be in accord.”
“The highest duty is to respect authority.”
“The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.”
Source: Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn
“The highest duty of the writer, the composer, the artist, is to remain true to himself and to let the chips fall where they may.”
“The highest earthly enjoyments are but a shadow of the joy I find in reading God's Word.”
“The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.”
Source: The Notebooks of Simone Weil
“The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.”
Source: Essays
“The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.”
Source: The Road to Inner Freedom: The Ethics
“The highest ensign that men ever met and embraced under, the Cross itself, had no meaning save an accidental extrinsic one.”
Source: Carlyle Reader
“The highest ethical duty is often to discard the outmoded ethics of the past.”
“The highest eulogy which can be pronounced on the revolution of 1688 is this, that it was our last revolution. Several generations have now passed away since any wise and patriotic Englishman has meditated resistance to the established government. In all honest and reflecting minds there is a conviction, daily strengthened by experience, that the means of effecting every improvement which the constitution requires may be found within the constitution itself.”
“The highest eulogy which can be pronounced on the Revolution of 1688 is this that this was our last Revolution.”
“The highest excellence is seldom attained in more than one vocation. The roads leading to distinction in separate pursuits diverge, and the nearer we approach the one, the farther we recede from the other.”
“The highest flights of charity, devotion, trust, patience, bravery to which the wings of human nature have spread themselves, have been flown for religious ideals.”
Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature
“The highest force in existence is consciousness, and you are that.”
“The highest form of ascension isn’t escape—it’s surrender.”
Source: a three body solution: A Daringly Subversive & Juicy Tale of Love, Evolution, & Humanity's Last Hope
“The highest form of bliss is living with a certain degree of folly”
“The highest form of consciousness is self-consciousness”
Source: The Azanian
“The highest form of human achievement was music. Human beings might have dirty, repulsive aspects to them, but out of the sordid swamp that was humanity - no, it was precisely because of this chaotic swamp - the beautiful lotus flower of music would bloom.”
Source: Honeybees and Distant Thunder