Best aim & activity Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Psychological man may be going nowhere, but he aims to achieve a certain speed and certainty in going. Like his predecessor, the man of the market economy, he understands morality as that which is conducive to increased activity. The important thing is to keep going.”

Men May Important Certain Economy Achieve He Man Morality Activity Aim Important Things Speed Psychological Certainty Keep Going Predecessors Market Economy

Book:The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith After Freud

Source: The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith After Freud

“People understand the meaning of eating lies in the nourishment of the body only when they cease to consider that the object of that activity is pleasure. ...People understand the meaning of art only when they cease to consider that the aim of that activity is beauty, i.e., pleasure.”

People Art Body Lying Pleasure Objects Activity Eating Aim Cease Nourishment Meaning Of Art

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“The aim of education is to strengthen and multiply the powers and activities of the mind rather than to increase its possessions.”

Mind Activity Increase Aim Possession Aim Of Education

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

“Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. A philosophical work consists essentially of elucidations. Philosophy does not result in 'philosophical propositions', but rather in the clarification of propositions. Without philosophy thoughts are, as it were, cloudy and indistinct: its task is to make them clear and to give them sharp boundaries.”

Giving Doe Philosophy Body Results Clear Activity Tasks Philosophical Aim Boundaries Doctrine Logical Propositions Cloudy Clarification

Book:Tractatus Logico-philosophicus: The German Text of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Logisch-philosophische Abhandlung

Source: Tractatus Logico-philosophicus: The German Text of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Logisch-philosophische Abhandlung

“The ultimate aim of politics is not politics, but the activities which can be practised within the political framework of the State. Therefore an effective statement of these activities - e.g. science, art, religion - is in itself a declaration of ultimate aims around which the political means will crystallise... a society with no values outside of politics is a machine carrying its human cargo, with no purpose in its institutions reflecting their care, eternal aspirations, loneliness, need for love.”

Needs Humans Mean Art States Care Political Purpose Values Loneliness Activity Eternal Machines Ultimate Aim Institutions Statements Aspiration Declaration Framework Reflecting Cargo

Author:Stephen Spender

“Language is inherently not concerned with logic. As an expression of the psychological activities of humankind, it simply follows a linear process as it seeks actualisation. Moreover, it does not obey the objective concepts of time and space that belong to the physical world. When the discussion of time and space is imported into linguistic art from scientific aims and research methods, that linguistic art is entirely reduced to trifling pseudo-philosophical issues.”

“The Kyoto Protocol is a death pact, however strange it may sound, because its main aim is to strangle economic growth and economic activity in countries that accept the protocol's requirements.”

May Country Sound Growth Accepting Economic Strange Activity Aim Requirements Economic Growth Pact Protocol Kyoto Kyoto Protocol

Author:Andrey Illarionov

“Normal science, the activity in which most scientists inevitably spend most all their time, is predicated on the assumption that the scientific community knows what the world is like. Normal science often suppresses fundamental novelties because they are necessarily subversive of its basic commitments.”

Knows World Doe Facts Wisdom Politics Community Economy Successful Theory Activity Normal Commitment Scientist Aim Fundamentals Assumption Liberalism Puzzles Novelty Subversive

Author:Thomas Kuhn

“The only kind of sublimity which a painter or sculptor should aim at is to express by certain proportions and positions of limbs and features that strength and dignity of mind, and vigor and activity of body, which enables men to conceive and execute great actions.”

Men Should Mind Kind Art Body Action Certain Position Activity Dignity Aim Painter Features Proportion Limbs Vigor Sculptors Sublimity

Author:Edmund Burke

“The authentic and pure values, truth, beauty, and goodness, in the activity of a human being are the result of one and the same act, a certain application of the full attention to the object. Teaching should have no aim but to prepare, by training the attention, for the possibility of such an act. All the other advantages of instruction are without interest.”

Source: Gravity and Grace

“It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of a specific activity or method. It must always relate to a better life for everyone.”

Important Term Activity Aim Method Defined Relate Better Life

Author:W. Edwards Deming

“Self-preservation is the central aim of all life-activities.”

Self Activity Aim Preservation Self Preservation

Author:Boris Sidis

“Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. A philosophical work consists essentially of elucidations.”

Philosophy Body Activity Philosophical Aim Doctrine Logical Clarification

Book:Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Source: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

“The effect of the post-Enlightenment project for human society is that all human activity is absorbed into labor. It becomes an unending cycle of production for the sake of consumption. The modern concept of "built-in obsolescence" makes this clear. The cycle of production and consumption has to be kept going, and the work of the artist or craftsman who aims to create something enduring becomes marginal to the economic order.”

“My family has always supported my activities, whether it was doing combat in Korea, flying progressively and challenging fighter-jet aircraft in Europe, or studying for a doctor's degree at MIT. They have been always very supportive and understanding of the challenges and risks involved in my career. A family needs to work as a team, supporting each other's individual aims and aspirations.”

“Sexual activity is driven by the same aims and motives as reading poetry or listening to music: to escape the limitations imposed by the need for particularity in the consciousness.”

Needs Reading Consciousness Listening Activity Aim Driven Limitation Motive Listening To Music Reading Poetry

Author:Colin Wilson

“Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the people of Palestine. We only aim to de-legitimize the settlement activities and the occupation and apartheid and the logic of ruthless force, and we believe that all the countries of the world stand with us in this regard.”

People World Want Believe Country Force Causes Effort Activity Gains Logic Regard Aim Israel Occupation Palestine Ruthless Settlement Apartheid Legitimacy Countries Of The World

Author:Mahmoud Abbas

“The population becomes the internal enemy. Any sign of life, of protest, or even mere doubt, is a dangerous challenge from the standpoint of military doctrine and national security. So complicated mechanisms of prevention adn punishment have been developed ... To operate effectively, the repression must appear arbitrary. Apart from breathing, any human activity can constitute a crime ... State terrorism aims to paralyze the population with fear.”

“The aim of all those who live in God is to please our Lord Jesus Christ and become reconciled with God the Father through receiving the Holy Spirit, thus securing their salvation, for in this consists the salvation of every soul. If this aim and this activity is lacking, all other labour is useless and all other striving is in vain. Every path of life which does not lead to this is without profit.”

“There was something terribly enthralling in the exercise of influence. No other activity was like it. To project one's soul into some gracious form, and let it tarry there for a moment; to hear one's own intellectual views echoed back to one with all the added music of passion and youth; to convey one's temperament into another as though it were a subtle fluid or a strange perfume: there was a real joy in that - perhaps the most satisfying joy left to us in an age so limited and vulgar as our own, an age grossly carnal in its pleasures, and grossly common in its aims.”

Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays

“So you see,' said Stepan Arkadyich, 'you're a very wholesome man. That is your virtue and your defect. You have a wholesome character, and you want all of life to be made up of wholesome phenomena, but that doesn't happen. So you despise the activity of public service because you want things always to correspond to their aim, and that doesn't happen. You also want the activity of the individual man always to have an aim, that love and family life always be one. And that doesn't happen. All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.”

Men Want Made Said Character Light Happens Individual Virtue Activity Aim Variety Charm Shade Despise Defects Family Life Public Service Beauty Of Life Love And Family

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“Science is the ultimate pornography, analytic activity whose main aim is to isolate objects or events from their contexts in time and space. This obsession with the specific activity of quantified functions is what science shares with pornography.”

Space Share Events Objects Activity Ultimate Function Aim Obsession Time And Space Pornography Analytics

Author:J. G. Ballard

“Happiness is something final and complete in itself, as being the aim and end of all practical activities whatever .... Happiness then we define as the active exercise of the mind in conformity with perfect goodness or virtue.”

Mind Ends Happiness Joy Perfect Virtue Exercise Activity Goodness Laughter Aim Finals Active Practicals Conformity

Author:Aristotle

“The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.”

Mind Humans Ends Poetry Literature Steps Poet Activity Achievement Aim Prose Human Mind Crowns Delicacy

Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“Capitalism is not only a better form of organizing human activity than any deliberate design, any attempt to organize it to satisfy particular preferences, to aim at what people regard as beautiful or pleasant order, but it is also the indispensable condition for just keeping that population alive which exists already in the world. I regard the preservation of what is known as the capitalist system, of the system of free markets and the private ownership of the means of production, as an essential condition of the very survival of mankind.”

“The brain seems a thoroughfare for nerve-action passing its way to the motor animal. It has been remarked that Life's aim is an act not a thought. To-day the dictum must be modified to admit that, often, to refrain from an act is no less an act than to commit one, because inhibition is coequally with excitation a nervous activity.”

Way Life Has Beens Seems Action Science Animal Brain Activity Aim Commit Passing Passings Nervous Nerves Motor Refrain Inhibitions

Author:Charles Scott Sherrington

“"My aim is to institute perpetual adoration," spoke St. Maximilian Maria Kolbe, Franciscan priest and founder of the Knights of the Immaculata. For he said that this is "the most important activity," and "if half of the Brothers would work, and the other half pray, this would not require too much."”

Ifs Said Important Half Too Much Brother Praying Activity Aim Spokes Priests Perpetual Founders Sacraments Knights Adoration Institute Other Half Franciscans

Author:Maximilian Kolbe

“My aim is to institute perpetual adoration," he said, for this is the "the most important activity.”

Said Important Activity Aim Perpetual Sacraments Adoration Institute

Author:Maximilian Kolbe

“Discipline is no longer literal obedience but intelligent obedience, for discipline aims at obedience coupled with activity of will. Once discipline weakens and vanishes, as it does towards the latter stages of the fire fight, and the crowd instinct possesses the soldier, then will he, if training has formed those necessary mental reflexes, surrender himself to the will of his leader; this is where leadership supplants discipline without destroying it.”

Ifs Doe Fighting Leader Fire Stage Discipline Activity Training Intelligent Aim Instinct Soldier Crowds Surrender Obedience Latter Destroying Literal Reflexes

Author:J. F. C. Fuller

“Being often with many leading politicians, I feel frustrated that they do not listen. They already know. They fully subscribed to the idea that talking about 'saving the planet' is an effective way to show their 'caring' for humanity and that it is the easiest way to maximize votes irrespective of any relevant activity which would aim at the real needs of people. The global warming dogma has become a very easy form of escapism from the current reality.”

“But could not our situation be compared to one of a menacing epidemic? People are unable to view this situation in its true light, for their eyes are blinded by passion. General fear and anxiety create hatred and aggressiveness. The adaptation to warlike aims and activities has corrupted the mentality of man; as a result, intelligent, objective and humane thinking has hardly any effect and is even suspected and persecuted as unpatriotic.”

Source: The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It

“The ultimate aim of all artistic activity is building! ... Architects, sculptors, painters, we must all get back to craft! ... The artist is a heightened manifestation of the craftsman. ... Let us form ... a new guild of craftsmen without the class divisions that set out to raise an arrogant barrier between craftsmen and artists! ... Let us together create the new building of the future which will be all in one: architecture and sculpture and painting.”

“It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or methods. It must always relate directly to how life is better for everyone. . . . The aim of the system must be clear to everyone in the system. The aim must include plans for the future. The aim is a value judgment.”

Life Important Life Is Values Term Leadership Clear Plans Activity Judgment Aim Method Planning Defined Relate

Author:W. Edwards Deming

“Artistic creation, after all, is not subject to absolute laws, valid from age to age; since it is related to the more general aim of mastery of the world, it has an infinite number of facets, the vincula that connect man with his vital activity; and even if the path towards knowledge is unending, no step that takes man nearer to a full understanding of the meaning of his existence can be too small to count.”

Ifs Men World Age Law Understanding Numbers Existence Steps Path Subjects Creation Activity Absolutes Infinite Aim Artistic Related Mastery Facets Unending Artistic Creation

Author:Andrei Tarkovsky

“The person who fears God seeks to live all of life to the glory of God... All the activities of life should be pursued with the aim of glorifying God.”

Should Persons Christian Activity Glory Aim Christian Inspirational Pursued Glory Of God Fear God Glorifying God

Author:Jerry Bridges

“My activities have never had anything to do with the idea of becoming famous or achieving success. I have always been concerned with getting people to listen to me. In everything I do ... my aim is to make people listen. I want to communicate the things that I love and in which I believe, because I think that people can derive a general benefit from them. What I really want is success in a philosophical sense: I want people to grasp something of the ideas and hopes which I express in painting.”

People Thinking Want Believe Ideas I Believe Achieve Painting Becoming Activity Benefits Concerned Philosophical Aim Communicate Listen To Me Achieving Success Becoming Famous

Author:Antoni Tapies

“It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement. Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs, therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity or undue depression in adversity.”

“Release and detach from every person, every circumstance, every condition, and every situation that no longer serves a divine purpose in your life. All things have a season, and all seasons must come to an end. Choose a new season, filled with purposeful thoughts and activities.”

“As a composer seeking to remain anonymous I am shy of confessing my musical activity. This is intelligible enough. For others it is their chief business, the occupation and aim of life. For me it is a relaxation, a pastime which distracts me from my principal business, my professorship. I love my profession and my science. I love the Academy and my pupils, male and female, because to direct the work of young people, one must be close to them.”

“Only the slow reader will notice the odd crowd of images-flier, butcher, seal-which have gathered to comment on the aims and activities of the speeding reader, perhaps like gossips at a wedding.”

Reading Reader Activity Aim Crowds Odd Gossip Comment Seals Butchers Speeding

Author:William H. Gass

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