Attainment Quotes - Page 10

• I do not pretend that language is science. It isan instrument for the attainment of science.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Science, Language, Instruments

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• Society is joint action and cooperation in which each participant sees the other partner's success as a means for the attainment of his own.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Inspirational, Mean, Joints

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Human Action”, p.210, Lulu Press, Inc

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• A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Responsibility, Humans, Ought

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.215

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• I declare, on my soul and conscience, that the attainment of power, or of a great name in literature, seemed to me an easier victory than a success with some young, witty, and gracious lady of high degree.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Witty, Power

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin”, p.92, The Floating Press

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• The practicing of loving kindness toward one's enemy is the ultimate test of one's own spiritual attainment.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Kindness, Enemy

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• Enlightenment is not an attainment; it is a realization. And when you wake up, everything changes and nothing changes. If a blind man realizes that he can see, has the world changed?

  Dan Millman

  Spiritual, Men, Wake Up

  Dan Millman (2009). “Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives”, p.267, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• [Women's] duty is nothing else than the fulfilment [sic] of the whole moral law, the attainment of every human virtue.

  Frances Power Cobbe

  Law, Moral, Virtue

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• Individuality realized is the supreme attainment of the human soul, the master-master's work of art. Individuality is sacred.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Art, Soul, Individuality

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• There is no road to success but through a clear strong purpose. Nothing can take its place. A purpose underlies character, culture, position, attainment of every part.

  Thornton T. Munger

  Success, Strong, Character

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• During the century after Newton, it was still possible for a man of unusual attainments to master all fields of scientific knowledge. But by 1800, this had become entirely impracticable.

  Isaac Asimov

  Knowledge, Science, Men

  Isaac Asimov (1968). “The Intelligent Man's Guide to the Physical Sciences”

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• The attainment of national independence is to me a search for truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Independence, Search For Truth

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• So long as untouchability disfigures Hinduism, so long do I hold the attainment of Swaraj to be an utter impossibility.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Long, Hinduism, Untouchability

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power, the utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God's creation. Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Taken, Men, Animal

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). “God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism”, p.34, Macmillan

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• When ... I comprehended that poetry had no provision in it for ultimate practical attainment of the rightness of work that is truth, but led on ever only to a temporizing less- than-truth ... I stopped.

  Laura Riding

  Provision, Practicals, Ultimate

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• Chess is more than a game or a mental training. It is a distinct attainment. I have always regarded the playing of chess and the accomplishment of a good game as an art, and something to be admired no less than an artist's canvas or the product of a sculptor's chisel. Chess is a mental diversion rather than a game. It is both artistic and scientific.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Art, Games, Accomplishment

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• That happy state of mind, so rarely possessed, in which we can say, "I have enough," is the highest attainment of philosophy.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Philosophy, Mind, Contentment

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• Simplicity of manner is the last attainment. Men are very long afraid of being natural, from the dread of being taken for ordinary.

  Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey

  Taken, Men, Long

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• Conventions of generality and mathematical elegance may be just as much barriers to the attainment and diffusion of knowledge as may contentment with particularity and literary vagueness... It may well be that the slovenly and literary borderland between economics and sociology will be the most fruitful building ground during the years to come and that mathematical economics will remain too flawless in its perfection to be very fruitful.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Years, Perfection, Contentment

  "Samuelson's Foundations: The Role of Mathematics in Economics". Journal of Political Economy, Volume 56, June 1948.

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• The attainment of enlightenment from ego's point of view is extreme death.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Views, Ego, Enlightenment

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings”, p.192, Shambhala Publications

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• The very best and highest attainment in this life is to
  remain still and let God act and speak in you.

  Meister Eckhart

  Letting Go, Life Is, Speak

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• Art is beauty, and every exposition of art, whether it be music, painting, or the drama, should be subservient to that one great end. As long as nature is a means to the attainment of beauty, so-called realism is necessary and permissable [sic], but it must be realism enhanced by idealism and uplifted by the spirit of an inner life or purpose.

  Julia Marlowe

  Music, Beauty, Art

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• Babaji's spiritual state is beyond human comprehension. The dwarfed vision of men cannot pierce to his transcendental star. One attempts in vain even to picture the avatar's attainment. It is inconceivable.

  Sri Yukteswar Giri

  Spiritual, Stars, Men

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• I would... establish the conviction that Chemistry, as an independent science, offers one of the most powerful means towards the attainment of a higher mental cultivation; that the study of Chemistry is profitable, not only inasmuch as it promotes the material interests of mankind, but also because it furnishes us with insight into those wonders of creation which immediately surround us, and with which our existence, life, and development, are most closely connected.

  Justus von Liebig

  Powerful, Mean, Independent

  David M. Knight, Justus von Liebig (1998). “The Development of Chemistry, 1789-1914: Familiar letters on chemistry”, p.1, Taylor & Francis

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• All great people glorify their history and look back upon their early attainments with a spiritualized vision.

  Kelly Miller

  People, Vision, Looks

  Kelly Miller (1908). “Race Adjustment: Essays on the Negro in America”

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• Resolve that you will now lay aside all else and concentrate upon the attainment of conscious unity with God.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Unity, Conscious, Resolve

  Wallace D. Wattles (2013). “The Selected Teachings of Wallace D. Wattles”, p.148, Simon and Schuster

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