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“Take the happiest man, the one most envied by the world, and in nine cases out of ten his inmost consciousness is one of failure. Either his ideals in the line of his achievements are pitched far higher than the achievements themselves, or else he has secret ideals of which the world knows nothing, and in regard to which he inwardly knows himself to be found wanting.”

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Book:Writings, 1902-1910

Source: Writings, 1902-1910

“But, in history, practical usefulness never determines the moral value of an achievement. Only the person who increases the knowledge humanity has about itself and enhances its creative consciousness permanently enriches humanity.”

Persons Values Humanity Consciousness Moral Knowledge Creative Achievement Increase Determine Practicals Usefulness Moral Values

Author:Stefan Zweig

“It is certainly not then-not in dreams- but when one is wide awake, at moments of robust joy and achievement, on the highest terrace of consciousness, that mortality has a chance to peer beyond its own limits, from the mast, from the past and its castle tower. And although nothing much can be seen through the mist, there is somehow the blissful feeling that one is looking in the right direction.”

Source: Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited

“Happiness is not something you have in your hands; it's something you carry in your heart. Happiness is one thing that multiplies by division. Happiness is that peculiar sensation you acquire when you are too busy to be miserable. Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.”

Heart States Hands Values Consciousness One Thing Achievement Busy Miserable Acquire Division Sensations Peculiar Too Busy States Of Consciousness

Author:Ayn Rand

“Art heightens the sense of humanity. It gives an elation to feeling which is supernatural...A million sunsets will not spur us on towards civilization. It requires Art to evoke into consciousness the finite perfections which lie ready for human achievement.”

Giving Humans Art Feelings Lying Humanity Consciousness Millions Ready Civilization Achievement Perfection Sunset Finite Evoke Spurs Elation

Author:Alfred North Whitehead

“When you realize that the real breakthroughs come from levels of higher consciousness, then you also realize that the achievement of maturity and wisdom is the most powerful generator of new beginnings possible.”

Real Realizing Levels Powerful Consciousness Higher Achievement Maturity Most Powerful New Beginnings Breakthrough Higher Consciousness Generator

Author:Marianne Williamson

“Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.”

Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

“The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there is, as it happens, a crying need for the propagation of this Islamic virtue.”

World Needs Happens Freedom Race Consciousness Virtue Cry Achievement Islam Contemporary Islamic Extinction Outstanding Propagation

Book:Civilization on Trial

Source: Civilization on Trial

“If we hope to live not just from moment to moment, but in true consciousness of our existence, then our greatest need and most difficult achievement is to find meaning in our lives.”

Ifs Needs Moments Difficult Existence Consciousness Our Lives Achievement Hope To Live

Book:The uses of enchantment: the meaning and importance of fairy tales

Source: The uses of enchantment: the meaning and importance of fairy tales

“The joy of Being, which is the only true happiness, cannot come to you through any form, possession, achievement, person, or event - through anything that happens. That joy cannot come to you - ever. It emanates from the formless dimension within you, from consciousness itself and thus is one with who you are.”

Persons Happens Spiritual Form Joy Consciousness Events Achievement Who You Are Aging Possession Dimensions Within You True Happiness Emanate

Book:A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“In studying the history of the human mind one is impressed again and again by the fact that its growth keeps pace with a widening range of consciousness, and that each step forward is an extremely painful and laborious achievement. One could almost say that nothing is more hateful to man than to give up the smallest particle of unconsciousness. He has a profound fear of the unknown. Ask anybody who has ever tried to introduce new ideas!”

“I suggest that just as self-consciousness is the goal for all the subhuman forms of life, and as group consciousness, or the consciousness of the Heavenly Man, is the goal for the human being, so for him, also, there may be a goal, and for him the achievement may be the development of God consciousness.”

Men Humans May Self Form Goal Human Beings Consciousness Groups Development Achievement Heavenly Self Consciousness

Book:The Consciousness of the Atom

Source: The Consciousness of the Atom

“Darwin's greatest achievement was to show that the appearance of purpose, planning, teleology (design), and intentionality in the origin and development of human and animal species was entirely an illusion. The illusion could be explained by evolutionary processes that contained no such purpose at all. But the spread of ideas through imitation required the whole apparatus of human consciousness and intentionality”

“Internationalism on the other hand admits that spiritual achievements have their roots deep in national life; from this national consciousness art and literature derive their character and strength and on it even many of the humanistic sciences are firmly based.”

Art Character Hands Spiritual Literature Consciousness Achievement Roots Humanistic Internationalism

Author:Christian Lous Lange

“The conservative response to modernity is to embrace it, but to embrace it critically, in full consciousness that human achievements are rare and precarious, that we have no God-given right to destroy our inheritance, but must always patiently submit to the voice of order, and set an example of orderly living.”

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Author:Roger Scruton