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“For the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that Love is the ultimate and highest goal to which man can aspire. Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.”

Source: Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition

“You must know nothing before you can learn something, and be empty before you can be filled. Is not the emptiness of the bowl what makes it useful? As for laws, a parrot can repeat them word for word. Their spirit is something else again. As for governing, one must first be lowest before being highest.”

Knows Firsts Law Spirit Highest Empty Filled Repeats Emptiness Bowls Lowest Governing Parrots

Author:Lloyd Alexander

“To evade such temptations is the first duty of the poet. For as the ear is the antechamber to the soul, poetry can adulterate and destroy more surely then lust or gunpowder. The poet's, then, is the highest office of all. His words reach where others fall short. A silly song of Shakespeare's has done more for the poor and the wicked than all the preachers and philanthropists in the world.”

World Firsts Soul Done Song Fall Poor Poet Duty Office Highest Ears Silly Lust Temptation Wicked Preacher Philanthropist Gunpowder

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

“He always reminded us that every atom in our bodies was once part of a distant star that had exploded. He talked about how evolution moves from simplicity toward complexity, and how human intelligence is the highest known expression of evolution. I remember him telling me that a frog's brain is much more complex than a star. He saw human consciousness as the first neuron of the universe coming to life and awareness. A spark in the darkness, waiting to spread to fire.”

Source: The Footprints of God

“Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already am. That I will never fulfill my obligation to surpass myself unless I first accept myself, and if I accept myself fully in the right way, I will already have surpassed myself.”

Ifs Way Firsts Wisdom Accepting Ambition Highest Obligation Conclusion Right Way

Book:A search for solitude: pursuing the monk's true life

Source: A search for solitude: pursuing the monk's true life

“Intimacy, says the phenomenologist Gaston Bachelard, is the highest value. I resist this statement at first. What about artistic achievement, or moral courage, or heroism, or altruistic acts, or work in the cause of social change? What about wealth or accomplishment? And yet something about it rings true, finally—that what we want is to be brought into relationship, to be inside, within. Perhaps it’s true that nothing matters more to us than that.”

Source: Still Life with Oysters and Lemon: On Objects and Intimacy

“Vic nudged my elbow with his. "You and me are still friends, right? You guys get a joint custody in the divorce. Generous visitations rights." "Divorce?" Despite myself, I laughed. Only Vic could call the aftermath of a bad first date a divorce. We hadn't exactly been friends beforehand, so "still" was an exaggeration, but it would've been mean to point that out. Besides, I liked Vic. "We're still friends." "Excellent. The weirdos have to stick together around here." "Are you calling me a weirdo?" "Highest honor I can bestow.”

“The highest glory of the creature is in being only a vessel, to receive and enjoy and show forth the glory of God. It can do this only as it is willing to be nothing in itself, that God may be all. Water always fills first the lowest places. The lower, the emptier a man lies before God, the speedier and the fuller will be the inflow of the diving glory.”

Men Firsts May Shows Lying Enjoy Water Can Do Willing Creatures Highest Glory Lowest Vessel Glory Of God Diving Lying Men

Book:Humility and Absolute Surrender

Source: Humility and Absolute Surrender

“Sometimes love needed a lift from its guardian angels, to get its feet off the ground. But once it made its first early beats toward flight, it had to be trusted to take wing on its own and soar past the highest conceivable heights, into the heavens-and beyond.”

Firsts Made Sometimes Past Heaven Feet Needed Highest Beats Angel Wings Flight Lifts Height Trusted Soar Guardian Guardian Angel Sometimes Love Feet Off The Ground

Book:Fallen in Love

Source: Fallen in Love

“You cannot be fair to others without first being fair to yourself. Know that a well-honed sense of justice is a measure of personal experience, and all experience is a measure of self. Know that the highest expression of justice is mercy. Thus, as the supreme judge in your own court, you must have compassion for yourself. Otherwise, cede your gavel.”

Knows Firsts Wells Self Justice Compassion Expression Judging Highest Fairs Mercy Court Supreme Personal Experiences Compassion For Yourself Gavel

Author:Vera Nazarian

“There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its colour are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.”

“Humility, the place of entire dependence on God, is the first duty and the highest virtue of the creature, and the root of every virtue. And so pride, or the loss of this humility, is the root of every sin and evil.”

Firsts Evil Loss Sin Virtue Humility Duty Pride Creatures Highest Roots Dependence Dependence On God

Book:Humility

Source: Humility

“The twentieth-century conservative is concerned, first of all, for the regeneration of the spirit and character – with the perennial problem of the inner order of the soul, the restoration of the ethical understanding, and the religious sanction upon which any life worth living is founded. This is conservatism at its highest.”

Source: The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot

“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.”

Years Firsts Heart Important Book Reason Feelings Choices Reading Understanding Imagination Highest Employment Fancy Branches Touched Solitary Employed Amusement Ripening

Author:Mary Wollstonecraft

“"Recognising, as I do, that you are the second highest expert in Europe" "Indeed, sir! May I inquire who has the honour to be the first?" Asked Holmes, with some asperity. "To the man of precised, scientific mind the work of Monsieur Bertillon must always appeal strongly." "Then had you not better consult him?" "I said, sir, to the precisely scientific mind. But as a practical man of affairs it is acknowledged that you stand alone. I trust, sir, that I have not inadvertently--" "Just a little," said Holmes.”

Men Mind Firsts May Littles Said Highest Europe Affair Practicals Appeals Experts Honour Holmes Stand Alone

Author:Arthur Conan Doyle

“The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.”

Source: As a Man Thinketh

“When it was first proposed to establish laboratories at Cambridge, Todhunter, the mathematician, objected that it was unnecessary for students to see experiments performed, since the results could be vouched for by their teachers, all of them of the highest character, and many of them clergymen of the Church of England.”

Firsts Character Science Church Results Teacher Students Highest England Experiments Unnecessary Mathematician Laboratory Clergymen Cambridge Church Of England

Book:The basic writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959

Source: The basic writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959

“When committees gather, each member is necessarily an actor, uncontrollably acting out the part of himself, reading the lines that identify him, asserting his identity.... We are designed, coded, it seems, to place the highest priority on being individuals, and we must do this first, at whatever cost, even if it means disability for the group.”

Ifs Firsts Mean Seems Reading Actors Individual Lines Acting Groups Identity Cost Members Highest Priorities Disability Committees Acting Out

Author:Lewis Thomas

“First, don't cry. That's the worst thing a gymnast can do in training, because it can ruin your concentration and lead to injury. Second, always place the highest demands of yourself in the sport.”

Firsts Sports Can Do Worst Cry Demand Highest Training Ruins Injury Concentration Worst Things Gymnastics Gymnast

Author:Rozalia Galiyeva

“The actual flower is the plant's highest fulfilment, and are not here exclusively for herbaria, county floras and plant geography: they are here first of all for delight.”

Firsts Flower Highest Plant Delight Geography County Fulfilment Flora Flower Blossom Summer Flower

Author:John Ruskin

“In the vast cosmical changes, the universal life comes and goes in unknown quantities, ... sowing an animalcule here, crumbling a star there, oscillating and ... entangling, from the highest to the lowest, all activities in the obscurity of a dizzying mechanism, hanging the flight of an insect upon the movement of the earth... Enormous gearing, whose first motor is the gnat, and whose last wheel is the zodiac.”

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