“There is nothing disastrous in the temporary nature of our ideas. They are always that. But there may very easily be a train of evil in the self-deception which regards them as final. I think God will forgive us our skepticism sooner than our Inquisitions.” ThinkingMayIdeasSelfEvilRegardForgivingTrainFinalsGods WillDeceptionTemporarySkepticismSelf DeceptionInquisition Book:A Preface to Politics Source: A Preface to Politics
“Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final. It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.” WayRealityGivenWonderMysteryHonestRegardResponseFinalsGrantedRadicalConfrontationGrandeurAmazement Author:Abraham Joshua Heschel
“A final and long-lasting solution to the Kosovo issue cannot be achieved without an agreement with Serbia, especially in regard to the U.N.” LongIssuesSolutionsRegardFinalsAgreementLastingLong LastingSerbiaKosovo Author:Ivica Dacic
“Liberalism regards all absolutes with profound skepticism, including both moral imperatives and final solutions... Insistence upon any particular solution is the mark of an ideologue.” FaithFreedomResponsibilityLibertyMoralKnowledgeParticularSolutionsMarkAbsolutesRegardProfoundFinalsIncludingSocialismResistanceLiberalismSkepticismImperativesInsistenceIdeologues Author:Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
“The message from all quarters is the same: our undisciplined consumption must end. If we continue to gobble up our resources without any regard to stewardship and to spew out our deadly wastes over land, sea, and air, we may well be drawing down the final curtain upon ourselves.” IfsWellsMayEndsAirSeaLandWasteMessagesResourcesRegardEnvironmentalFinalsDrawingQuartersConsumptionCurtainsStewardshipUndisciplined Author:Richard J. Foster
“I regard myself as being the final filter so everything that ends up in the movie is there because it's something that I think was cool.” ThinkingEndsRegardFinalsFilters Author:Peter Jackson
“In regard to man's final end, all the higher religions are in complete agreement. The purpose of human life is the discovery of Truth, the unitive knowledge of the Godhead.” MenHumansEndsLife IsPurposeHigherDiscoveryRegardFinalsHuman LifeAgreement Author:Aldous Huxley
“He who has attained the freedom of reason to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a wanderer on the face of the earth - and not even as a traveler towards a final goal, for there is no such thing. But he certainly wants to observe and keep his eyes open to whatever actually happens in the world; therefore he cannot attach his heart too firmly to anything individual; he must have in himself something wandering that takes pleasure in change and transitoriness.” WorldWantHeartLongReasonHappensEyeEarthFacesIndividualGoalPleasureLong TimeRegardFinalsWanderHis EyesTravelerWanderers Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“To the exponents of the Perennial Philosophy, the question whether Progress is inevitable or even real is not a matter of primary importance. For them, the important thing is that individual men and women should come to the unitive knowledge of the divine Ground, and what interests them in regard to the social environment is not its progressiveness or non-progressiveness (whatever those terms may mean), but the degree to which it helps or hinders individuals in the their advance towards man's final end.” MenShouldMayMeanImportantRealEndsMatterPhilosophyHelpingIndividualSocialTermInterestEnvironmentProgressDivineDegreesMen And WomenImportanceRegardImportant ThingsFinalsPrimariesInevitableHinderExponentsSocial Environment Author:Aldous Huxley
“He who has attained intellectual emancipation to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a wanderer on the face of the earth and not even as a traveller towards a final goal, for there is no such thing.” LongEarthFacesGoalLong TimeIntellectualRegardIndependentFinalsTravellerEmancipationWanderers Book:Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two