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“The political cartoon, in a way, is one of the highest forms of expression about our times. I don't believe in dramatic statements when it comes to political critique. It doesn't communicate in a way that's subversive enough.”

Way Believe Enough Form Political Expression Highest Don't Believe Communicate Statements Dramatic Our Time Cartoon Critique Subversive Political Cartoons

Author:Camille Henrot

“Understanding, love and tolerance are the highest forms of interest on out small and interdependent planet.”

Form Understanding Interest Planets Highest Tolerance Understanding Love

Author:U Thant

“Man is still at the learning stage, and mankind is so arrogant to think that he's the highest form of evolution on earth. There's so much of the brain that we still don't use, and that's all I ever try to do - go to the next level”

Thinking Men Trying Stills Use Earth Form Next Levels Brain Mankind Stage Evolution Highest Arrogant Next Level

Author:Marilyn Manson

“The highest form of leadership is one in which a leader raises up other leaders - not as an accident, but as a result of conscious effort.”

Form Results Effort Leader Highest Conscious Raises Accidents Raise Up

Author:Mark Millar

“Actually, the highest form of human organization is not realized in the democratic individual. It is realized in a dimension none of us have ever penetrated, which is the mind of the species, which is actually the hand at the tiller of history. . . . It is an organized entelechy of some sort, and human history is its signature on the primates.”

Mind Humans Hands Form Individual Highest Organization Democratic Species Organized Dimensions Human History Signatures Primates

Author:Terence McKenna

“The highest aim of the aesthetic being is to find the Divine through beauty; the highest Art is that which by an inspired use of significant and interpretative form unseals the door of the spirit.”

Art Use Form Spirit Doors Divine Highest Art Is Aim Inspired Significant Aesthetic

Book:The Human Cycle, Psychology of Social Development

Source: The Human Cycle, Psychology of Social Development

“Politics, according to the Social Doctrine of the Church, is one of the highest forms of charity, because it serves the common good. I cannot wash my hands, eh? We all have to give something!”

Giving Hands Form Social Church Common Highest Charity Doctrine Common Good

Author:Pope Francis

“The snapshot has no pretense or ambition. Innocence is the quintessence of the snapshot. I wish to distinguish between innocence and ignorance. Innocence is one of the highest forms of being and ignorance is one of the lowest.”

Form Wish Ignorance Ambition Highest Innocence Lowest Pretense Snapshots Quintessence

Author:Lisette Model

“In our world, all puns are beautiful and they are the highest form of comedy.”

World Beautiful Form Comedy Highest Our World Pun

Author:Greg Proops

“I do not communicate by words alone. In fact, rarely do I do so. My most common form of communication is through feeling. Feeling is the language of the soul. If you want to know what's true for you about something, look to how you're feeling about it... Hidden in your deepest feelings is your highest truth.”

Ifs Knows Want Looks Soul Facts Feelings Form Language Common Communication Highest Communicate Deepest Feelings

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“Sarcasm is the lowest form of humor but the highest form of flattery.”

Form Highest Sarcasm Lowest Flattery

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“Love for me is my North Star. It's the highest form of grace. And I love that there's different levels and different ways of showing it, and different representations of it. Whether it's love shown to a stranger, love to a sibling, your child, your parents, your partner.”

Way Children Different Form Stars Parent Levels Grace Highest Our Children Stranger Partners Your Children Different Ways Representation Sibling Different Levels North Star

Author:Ben Harper

“Acceptance and its counterpart, understanding, are crucial to achieving relationship harmony. It is sacred love, the highest form of love, and like most things worth striving for in life, it requires patience, commitment, personal responsibility, and practice.”

Form Understanding Responsibility Practice Achieve Acceptance Highest Commitment Harmony Sacred Strive Crucial Personal Responsibility Counterparts Forms Of Love

Author:Arielle Ford

“Love is the highest form of intelligence we can experience.”

Love Form Love Is Highest Intelligence

Author:John Pierrakos

“I find comedy to be one of the highest of the art forms.”

Art Form Comedy Highest

Author:Taylor Momsen

“Service is the highest form of prayer as far as I am concerned.”

Form Prayer Highest Concerned

Author:John Henrik Clarke

“The highest form of patriotism is dissent.”

Form Political Highest Opposition Patriotic Dissent Disagreement

Author:Matthew Dowd

“The reason we can't attain the highest level of knowledge while incarnate is that we can't then wholly escape the influence of the body (and so of perception and of certain desires that take us away from thinking properly); and that prevents us from understanding fully what forms are, which one must do in order to have the highest level of knowledge.”

Thinking Reason Body Form Desire Certain Order Understanding Levels Influence Perception Highest

Author:Gail Fine

“Imitation is the highest form of flattery, but clones kind of get it wrong because we are promoting individuality and being proud of being yourself.”

Kind Form Proud Highest Individuality Being Yourself Individualism Imitation Be Proud Flattery Promoting

Author:Brian Molko

“Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.”

“The highest form of vanity is love of fame.”

Form Fame Highest Reputation Vanity

Book:The Life of Reason: Human Understanding

Source: The Life of Reason: Human Understanding

“The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.”

Thinking Humans Government Form Nature Existence Human Nature Type Republican Highest Republic Forms Of Government

Author:Herbert Spencer

“Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.”

Form Politics Democracy Highest Scales Bribery

Author:Gore Vidal

“The man form is higher than the angel form; of all forms it is the highest. Man is the highest being in creation, because he aspires to freedom.”

Men Form Creation Higher Highest Angel Shy Aspire Benevolence

Author:Paramahansa Yogananda

“Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.”

Form Highest Tyranny Thrive Patriotism Nationalism Dissent Dissension Good Patriotic Mob Rule Government Tyranny Anti Patriotism

Author:Howard Zinn

“The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.”

Humans Inspiration Form Social Understanding Compassion Achieve Highest Laughter Social Good Human Compassion

Book:The Quotable Feynman

Source: The Quotable Feynman

“Every form of happiness if one, every desire is driven by the same motor--by our love for a single value, for the highest potentiality of our own existence--and every achievement is an expression of it.”

Ifs Form Desire Values Existence Expression Achievement Highest Driven Our Love Motor

Book:Ayn Rand Novel Collection

Source: Ayn Rand Novel Collection

“No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die.”

Knows Humans Earth Form Dies Animal Highest Irony Human Experience

Author:Don DeLillo

“Although we read with our minds, the seat of artistic delight is between the shoulder blades. That little shiver behind is quite certainly the highest form of emotion that humanity has attained when evolving pure art and pure science. Let us worship the spine and its tingle.”

Mind Littles Art Form Humanity Emotion Behinds Pure Worship Highest Delight Shoulders Artistic Evolve Seats Blades Spine Shiver

Book:Lectures on Literature

Source: Lectures on Literature

“Friendship is the purest love. It is the highest form of Love where nothing is asked for, no condition, where one simply enjoys giving.”

Giving Form Enjoy Friendship Conditions Highest Forms Of Love

Author:Rajneesh

“Happiness is the highest form of wisdom.”

Love Form Highest

Book:Kushiel's Mercy: Treason's Heir: Book Three

Source: Kushiel's Mercy: Treason's Heir: Book Three

“Imagination is the highest form of research.”

Inspirational Ideas Spiritual Form Imagination Business Highest Research

Author:Albert Einstein

“The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.”

Inspirational Form Ability Highest Intelligence Judgement

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“...Every ego so far from being a unity is in the highest degree a manifold world, a constellated heaven, a chaos of forms, of states and stages, of inheritances and potentialities. It appears to be a necessity as imperative as eating and breathing for everyone to be forced to regard this chaos as a unity and to speak of his ego as though is was a one-fold and clearly detached and fixed phenomenon. Even the best of us shares this delusion.”

World States Form Speak Heaven Share Stage Ego Degrees Eating Highest Regard Unity Chaos Breathing Fixed Delusion Phenomenon Inheritance Imperatives Folds Detached Manifold

Book:Steppenwolf

Source: Steppenwolf

“a poet is someone who is abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement. Which is to say the highest form of concentration possible: fascination; to report on the electrifying experience of being”

Form Movement Poet Highest Reports Concentration Fascination Precision

Author:e. e. cummings

“Devotion gradually progresses to higher levels. . . . One type goes to God and asks Him to remove his suffering. Another one will ask for money or material things. A third will request liberation or release from his bondage. And the fourth will not ask for anything. He will just enjoy praying and praising his Lord. That is the highest form of prayer. (Beyond Word, 119)”

“[I]n a place with absolutely no private or personal life, with the incessant worship of a mediocre career-sadist as the only culture, where all citizens are the permanent property of the state, the highest form of pointlessness has been achieved.”

Has Beens States Form Culture Careers Citizens Worship Highest Property Permanent Mediocre Personal Life Incessant Pointlessness

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“How poetic you are," she said. "I've a notion that poetry is the highest form of self-deception.”

Said Self Form Highest Notion Deception Poetry Is Poetic Self Deception

Book:The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz

Source: The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz

“Puns are the highest form of literature.”

Funny Form Literature Highest Pun

Author:Alfred Hitchcock

“The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person’s solitude.”

Love Persons Form Love Is Solitude Highest Introvert Protector Forms Of Love

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“Devotion to duty is the highest form of worship of God.”

Form Duty Worship Highest Devotion Devotion To Duty

Book:Awakened India

Source: Awakened India

“For the artist, the color, the bouquet, the tinkling of the spoon on the saucer, are things in the highest degree. He stops at the quality of the sound or the form. He returns to it constantly and is enchanted with it.”

Form Artist Sound Quality Color Return Degrees Highest Spoons Enchanted Bouquets

Book:The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Essays in Metaphysics, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Philosophy of Existentialism

Source: The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Essays in Metaphysics, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Philosophy of Existentialism

“Music is one of the highest art forms there is. It can define a life, change a life, or even safe a life, in just three short minutes.”

Art Form Three Minutes Safe Highest Music Is Life Changing

Author:Alyson Noel

“Poetry is only the highest eloquence of passion, the most vivid form of expression that can be given to our conception of anything, whether pleasurable or painful, mean or dignified, delightful or distressing. It is the perfect coincidence of the image and the words with the feeling we have, and of which we cannot get rid in any other way, that gives an instant "satisfaction to the thought." This is equally the origin of wit and fancy, of comedy and tragedy, of the sublime and pathetic.”

Source: Lectures on the English Poets

“I believe in life and in people. I feel obliged to advocate their highest ideals as long as I believe them to be true. I also see myself compelled to revolt against ideals I believe to be false, since recoiling from rebellion would be a form of treason”

People Feels Believe Long Would Be Form I Believe Highest Ideals I Believe In Being True Rebellion Compelled Obliged Revolt Treason

Book:Sugar Street: The Cairo Trilogy

Source: Sugar Street: The Cairo Trilogy

“The highest form of love is the love that allows for intimacy without the annihilation of difference.”

Love Form Differences Love Is Highest Intimacy Annihilation Forms Of Love

Author:Parker J. Palmer

“[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft.”

Humans Facts Form Highest Capitalism Embarrassing Theft Human Freedom

Author:David Graeber

“A wise man once said that all human activity is a form of play. And the highest form of play is the search for Truth, Beauty and Love. What more is needed? Should there be a ‘meaning’ as well, that will be a bonus? If we waste time looking for life’s meaning, we may have no time to live — or to play.”

Ifs Men Should Humans Wells May Said Play Form Wise Needed Activity Waste Highest And Love Wasting Time Wise Man Once Said Bonus Human Activity Search For Truth Beauty And Love

Author:Arthur C. Clarke

“If I'm among men who don't agree at all with my nature, I will hardly be able to accommodate myself to them without greatly changing myself. A free man who lives among the ignorant strives as far as he can to avoid their favors. A free man acts honestly, not deceptively. Only free man are genuinely useful to one another and can form true friendships. And it's absolutely permissible, by the highest right of Nature, for everyone to employ clear reason to determine how to live in a way that will allow him to flourish.”

Ifs Men Way Reason Able Form Clear Highest Agree Strive Determine Favors Honestly Ignorant Strife True Friendship Free Man Accommodate Changing Myself

Author:Irvin D. Yalom

“This girl has the spark of life. This is my primary filter for new friends (girl- and otherwise) and the highest compliment I can pay. I've tried many times to figure out exactly what ignites it -- what cocktail of characteristics come together in the cold, dark cosmos to form a star. I know it's mostly in the face -- not just the eyes, but the brow, the cheeks, the mouth, and the micromuscles that connect them all. Kat's micromuscles are very attractive.”

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