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“That's what Google taught me. Aim higher. Udacity is my playground - to radically experiment and find out. I've seen the light.”

Light Taught Higher Aim Experiments Google Playgrounds Aim High

Author:Sebastian Thrun

“...the aim of every hierarchy is always to imitate God so as to take on His form... the task of every hierarchy is to receive and to pass on undiluted purification, the divine light, and the understanding which brings perfection.”

Light Christian Form Understanding Divine Perfection Tasks Aim Orthodox Hierarchy Orthodox Christian Purification Divine Light

Author:Maximus the Confessor

“Our principles fix what our life stands for, our aims create the light our life is bathed in, and our rationality, both individual and coordinate, defines and symbolizes the distance we have come from mere animality. It is by these means that our lives come to more than what they instrumentally yield. And by meaning more, our lives yield more.”

Mean Light Life Is Individual Principles Our Lives Aim Distance Mere Yield Rationality Coordinates

Book:The Nature of Rationality

Source: The Nature of Rationality

“The Church ever operates in full light. There is no secrecy about its doctrine, aim, or work.”

Light Church Aim Doctrine Secrecy Polygamy

Author:John Andreas Widtsoe

“Never yet did there exist a full faith in the Divine Word (by whom light as well as immortality was brought into the world) which did not expand the intellect, while it purified the heart--which did not multiply the aims and objects of the understanding, while it fixed and simplified those of the desires and passions.”

World Wells Heart Light Desire Faith Passion Understanding Objects Divine Aim Intellect Immortality Fixed

Book:The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetry, Plays, Literary Essays, Lectures, Autobiography and Letters (Classic Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of the English poet, literary critic and philosopher, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, Lyrical Ballads, Conversation Poems and Biographia Literaria

Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetry, Plays, Literary Essays, Lectures, Autobiography and Letters (Classic Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of the English poet, literary critic and philosopher, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, Lyrical Ballads, Conversation Poems and Biographia Literaria

“One more royal trait properly belongs to the poet. I mean his cheerfulness, without which no man can be a poet,--for beauty is his aim. He loves virtue, not for its obligation, but for its grace; he delights in the world, in man, in woman, for the lovely light that sparkles from them. Beauty, the spirit of joy and hilarity, he sheds over the universe.”

Men World Mean Light Joy Spirit Universe Virtue Grace Poet Aim Delight Lovely Obligation Traits Shed Royal Cheerfulness Sparkle Hilarity

Book:Representative Men: Seven Lectures

Source: Representative Men: Seven Lectures

“Nature has put itself the problem how to catch in flight light streaming to the earth and to store the most elusive of all powers in rigid form. To achieve this aim, it has covered the crust of earth with organisms which in their life processes absorb the light of the sun and use this power to produce a continuously accumulating chemical difference. ... The plants take in one form of power, light; and produce another power, chemical difference.”

Use Problem Light Earth Form Process Differences Sun Achieve Produce Aim Plant Stores Flight Covered Chemicals Organisms Elusive Streaming Photosynthesis

Author:Robert Mayer

“Nature seems to have treasured up the depth of our mind talents and abilities that we are not aware of; it is the privilege of the passions alone to bring them to light, and to direct us sometimes to surer and more excellent aims than conscious effort could.”

Mind Sometimes Light Seems Passion Ability Effort Talent Conscious Direct Aim Depth Privilege Excellent Treasured Talents And Abilities

Author:Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

“In order that the mind should see light instead of darkness, so the entire soul must be turned away from this changing world, until its eye can learn to contemplate reality and that supreme splendor which we have called the good. Hence there may well be an art whose aim would be to effect this very thing.”

World Should Mind Wells May Art Soul Reality Light Would Be Eye Order Darkness Effects Aim Supreme Contemplating Splendor

Author:Socrates

“Meantime, the world in which we exist has other aims. But it will pass away, burnt up in the fire of its own hot passions; and from its ashes will spring a new and younger world, full of fresh hope, woth the light of morning in its eyes.”

World Light Eye Passion Morning Fire Spring Hot Aim Ashes Passing Away

Book:Roads to Freedom

Source: Roads to Freedom

“The Christian is joyful, not because he is blind to injustice and suffering, but because he is convinced that these, in the light of the divine sovereignty, are never ultimate. The Christian can be sad, and often is perplexed, but he is never really worried, because he knows that the purpose of God is to bring all things in heaven and on earth together under one head, even Christ.”

“Each religion has helped mankind. Paganism increased in man the light of beauty, the largeness and height of his life, his aim at a many-sided perfection; Christianity gave him some vision of divine love and charity; Buddhism has shown him a noble way to be wiser, gentler, purer, Judaism and Islam how to be religiously faithful in action and zealously devoted to God; Hinduism has opened to him the largest and profoundest spiritual possibilities.”

Source: The Supramental Manifestation, and Other Writings

“For the last century of neuroscience, lots of people have tried to control neurons using all sorts of different technologies - pharmacology (drugs), electrical pulses, and so on. But none of these technologies are precise. With optogenetics, we can aim light at a single cell, or a set of cells, and turn just that set of cells on or off.”

People Different Light Lasts Turns Technology Century Drug Aim Cells Precise Neuroscience Pulse Electrical Neurons Pharmacology

Author:Edward Boyden

“Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight.”

Love Light Earth Enjoy Nature Let Me Aim Delight Loveliness Earth And Nature

Author:Thomas Hardy

“There are only shades of gray. Black and white are nothing more than lofty ideals in our minds, the standards by which we try to judge things, and map out our place in the world in relevance to them. Good and evil, in their purest form, are as intangible and forever beyond our ability to hold in our hand as any Fae illusion. We can only aim at them, aspire to them, and hope not to get so lost in the shadows that we can no longer aim for the light.”

Source: Bloodfever: Fever Series

“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

“You've got to shake your fists at lightning now, you've got to roar like forest fire You've got to spread your light like blazes all across the sky They're going to aim the hoses on you, show 'em you won't expire Not till you burn up every passion, not even when you die Come on now, you've got to try, if you're feeling contempt, well then you tell it If you're tired of the silent night, Jesus, well then you yell it Condemned to wires and hammers, strike every chord that you feel That broken trees and elephant ivories conceal”

“Weakness' is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.”

Men Light Law Weakness Aim Instruments

Author:Simone de Beauvoir

“Who says you cannot hold the moon in your hand? Tonight when the stars come out and the moon rises in the velvet sky, look outside your window, then raise your hand and position your fingers around the disk of light. There you go . . . That was easy!”

Looks Hands Light Stars Easy Sky Position Moon Window Aim Raises Fingers Tonight Velvet Aim High Disk Moon Rise

Author:Vera Nazarian

“In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true division of humanity is between those who live in light and those who live in darkness. Our aim must be to diminish the number of the latter and increase the number of the former. That is why we demand education and knowledge.”

Men World Light Humanity Numbers Darkness This World Demand Increase Aim Former Latter Division Diminish Happy Man Education And Knowledge

Book:Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“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 main purpose of my work is to provoke people into using their imagination. Most people spend their lives in dreary, grey-beige conformity, mortally afraid of using colours. By experimenting with lighting, colours, textiles and furniture and utilizing the latest technologies, I try to show new ways to encourage people to use their phantasy and make their surroundings more exciting.”

“You could say that my aim is ‘to recover the place’. The place is a result of nature and time; this is the most important aspect. I think my architecture is some kind of frame of nature. With it, we can experience nature more deeply and more intimately. Transparency is a characteristic of Japanese architecture; I try to use light and natural materials to get a new kind of transparency.”

Thinking Trying Kind Important Use Light Natural Results Materials Aspect Aim Architecture Characteristics Transparency Natural Materials Japanese Architecture

Author:Kengo Kuma

“Our lives are a battlefield on which is fought a continuous war between the forces that are pledged to confirm our humanity and those determined to dismantle it; those who strive to build a protective wall around it, and those who wish to pull it down; those who seek to mould it and those committed to breaking it up; those who aim to open our eyes, to make us see the light and look to tomorrow [...] and those who wish to lull us into closing our eyes”

Looks War Light Eye Humanity Force Wish Our Lives Wall Tomorrow Aim Strive Committed Determined Closing Protective Battlefields Mould Lulls

Author:Ngugi wa Thiong'o

“Who speaks of art speaks of poetry. There is not art without a poetic aim. There is a species of emotion particular to painting. There is an effect that results from a certain arrangement of colors, of lights, of shadows. It is this that one calls the music of painting”

Art Light Certain Speak Results Emotion Effects Particular Color Painting Shadow Aim Species Poetic Arrangements

Author:Edouard Vuillard

“We have a great objective - the light on the hill - which we aim to reach by working for the betterment of mankind not only here but anywhere we may give a helping hand. If it were not for that, the Labour movement would not be worth fighting for.”

Ifs Giving May Helping Hands Light Fighting Mankind Movement Aim Objectives Hills Labour Helping Hand Betterment Worth Fighting For Labour Movement

Author:Ben Chifley