“The aim is not therefore to liberate some 'essential self' by throwing off the burden of government and the State, but to develop the self in creative and voluntary relations with others.” SelfStatesGovernmentCreativeEssentialsRelationAimBurdenThrowing Author:Peter Marshall
“A comprehensive doctrine, either religious or secular, aspires to cover all of life. I mean, if it's a religious doctrine, it talks about our relation to God and the universe; it has an ordering of all the virtues, not only political virtues but moral virtues as well, including the virtues of private life, and the rest. Now we may feel philosophically that it doesn't really cover everything, but it aims to cover everything, and a secular doctrine does also.” IfsFeelsWellsMayMeanDoePoliticalUniverseReligiousMoralVirtueRelationAimIncludingDoctrineSecularAspirePrivate LifeComprehensiveMoral Virtues Author:John Rawls
“Ultimately there can be no freedom for self unless it is vouchsafed for others; there can be no security where there is fear, and a democratic society presupposes confidence and candor in the relations of men with one another and eager collaboration for the larger ends of life instead of the pursuit of petty, selfish or vainglorious aims.” MenEndsSelfFreedomSecurityRelationAimDemocraticSelfishPursuitSelfishnessCollaborationPettyEnd Of LifeDemocratic SocietyCandor Author:Felix Frankfurter
“The aim of science is, on the one hand, as complete a comprehension as possible of the connection between perceptible experiences in their totality, and, on the other hand, the achievement of this aim by employing a minimum of primary concepts and relations.” HandsScienceAchievementConceptsConnectionsAccountsRelationAimPrimariesMinimumComprehensionTotalityEmploying Author:Albert Einstein
“All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers, so that the aim of exact science is to reduce the problems of nature to the determination of quantities by operations with numbers.” ProblemLawScienceNumbersDeterminationRelationAimMathematicsMathematicalOperationsQuantityExact Sciences Book:The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell Source: The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell