Intention Quotes - Page 10

• As holy zeal is the fervency of our grace, so sinful zeal is the intention and fervency of sin.

  Richard Baxter

  Grace, Sin, Holy

  Richard Baxter (1847). “The Practical Works of Richard Baxter; with a Preface, Giving Some Account of the Author, and of this Edition of His Practical Works; an Essay on His Genius, Works, and Times ...”, p.383

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• A machine is more blameless, more sinless even than any animal. It has no intentions whatsoever but our own.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Animal, Machines, Blameless

  "The Lathe of Heaven". Book by Ursula K. Le Guin, 1971.

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• Between thought and spoken word is a gap where intention can enter, the symbol be twisted aside, and the lie come to be.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Lying, Gaps, Twisted

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2016). “Worlds of Exile and Illusion: Three Complete Novels of the Hainish Series in One Volume--Rocannon's World; Planet of Exile; City of Illusions”, p.283, Macmillan

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• By such literalism, fundamentalism, religions betrayed the best intentions of their founders. Reducing thought to formula, replacing choice by obedience, these preachers turned the living word into dead law.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Law, Choices, Betrayed

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Telling”, p.139, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• However rich we may become in knowledge of the deeper causes of historical results, we forgo all understanding of history if we forget this inner continuity,--i.e., the conscious intentions of the participants in history-making and their consciously known successes.

  William Ernest Hocking

  Historical, Understanding, May

  William Ernest Hocking (1916). “The meaning of God in human experience: philosophic study of religion”

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• We must recognize that there is no indication that Saddam Hussein has any intention of relenting. So we have an obligation of enormous consequence, an obligation to guarantee that Saddam Hussein cannot ignore the United Nations. He cannot be permitted to go unobserved and unimpeded toward his horrific objective of amassing a stockpile of weapons of mass destruction.

  John F. Kerry

  Mass Destruction, Guarantees That, Hussein

  John F. Kerry's Speech to the floor of the Senate, Congressional Record, November 9, 1997.

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• Like all truly pure souls she [Chantal] quickly resigned herself to past faults, thought only of how to repair whatever harm they had done. "Of all my daughters, you are certainly the least bothered by scruples of conscience," Abbé Chevance used to say.... Even sin, once the will is detached and no longer nourishes it, withers and dies sterile. It is in the secret of intentions, like in a decomposing humus, in the dark forest of future sins, unpardoned sins, half dead, half living, that new poisons are distilled.

  Georges Bernanos

  Daughter, Dark, Past

  "Joy". Book by Georges Bernanos, 1929.

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• Work democracy does not wish to prevent or prohibit anything. Its only intention is the fulfilment of the biological life functions, of love, work and knowledge.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Democracy, Wish, Doe

  "The Mass Psychology of Fascism". Book by Wilhelm Reich, 1933.

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• The freedoms which had been so hard won from colonial domination were being crushed by Soviet-inspired and funded military and political forces. Their clear intention was to deprive the people of their democratic freedoms. As history shows, this is what had happened in the Soviet Union and in Cuba, and continues to be the case in other parts of the world.

  Augusto Pinochet

  Military, People, Political

  Statement, November 08, 1998.

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• The motive for criticizing myth, that is, its objectifying representations, is present in myth itself, insofar as its real intention to talk about a transcendent power to which both we and the world are subject is hampered and obscured by the objectifying character of its assertions.

  Rudolf Bultmann

  Real, Character, World

  "New Testament and Mythology and Other Basic Writings". Book by Rudolf Bultmann, pp. 10, 1984.

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• Philosophy that satisfies its own intention, and does not childishly skip behind its own history and the real one, has its lifeblood in the resistance against the common practices of today and what they serve, against the justification of what happens to be the case.

  Theodor Adorno

  Philosophy, Real, Practice

  Theodor W. Adorno (2012). “Critical Models: Interventions and Catchwords”, p.6, Columbia University Press

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• It is apparently vital that we should be in the dark about ourselves not to be clear about our intentions, fears, and hopes. There is a stubborn effort in us to set up a compact screen between consciousness and the self.

  Eric Hoffer

  Dark, Self, Effort

  "Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook" by Tom Bethell in Harper's Magazine, July 2005.

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• Daughters of the attitude that produced them, certain women will not appeal to us without the double bed in which we find peace by their side, while others, to be caressed with a more secret intention, require leaves blown by the wind, water rippling in the dark, things as light and fleeting as they are.

  Marcel Proust

  Daughter, Attitude, Women

  Marcel Proust (2003). “In Search of Lost Time Volume III The Guermantes Way”, Modern Library

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• If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man in the world.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Procrastination, Men, Roaring

  Henrik Ibsen (1905). “The Correspondence of Henrik Ibsen”

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• An intention that rejects what has no meaning in fact is a rejection of the entirety of being.

  Georges Bataille

  Rejection, Facts, Rejects

  Georges Bataille (2004). “On Nietzsche”, p.27, A&C Black

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• And I want you to know that I have no intention whatever of ever walking away from the job that the people elected me to do for the people of the United States.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Jobs, Walking Away, People

  Nixon, Richard M. (1975). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1974”, p.55, Best Books on

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• But if one Subject giveth Counsell to another, to do anything contrary to the Lawes, whether that Counsell proceed from evil intention, or from ignorance onely, it is punishable by the Common-wealth; because igorance of the Law, is no good excuse, where every man is bound to take notice of the Lawes to which he is subject.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Ignorance, Men, Law

  "Leviathan". Book by Thomas Hobbes. The Second Part, Chapter 25, 1651.

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• I believe that Providence would never have allowed us to see the victory of the Movement if it had the intention after all to destroy us at the end.

  Adolf Hitler

  Believe, Victory, Movement

  Adolf Hitler “The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, April 1922-August 1939: An English Translation of Representative Passages Arranged Under Subjects and Edited by Norman H. Baynes”

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• Management [ Providence ], knowledge, and intention are not the same when ascribed to us and when ascribed to God.

  Maimonides

  Management, Providence

  Moses Maimonides, Aeterna Press (1948). “The Guide for the Perplexed”, p.471, Aeterna Press

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• That which is produced with intention has passed over from non-existence to existence.

  Maimonides

  Existence, Non Existence

  Moses Maimonides, Aeterna Press (1948). “The Guide for the Perplexed”, p.440, Aeterna Press

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• Know that the difficulties which lead to confusion in the question what is the purpose of the Universe or of any of its parts, arise from two causes: first, man has an erroneous idea of himself, and believes that the whole world exists only for his sake; secondly, he is ignorant both about the nature of the sublunary world, and about the Creator's intention to give existence to all beings whose existence is possible, because existence is undoubtedly good.

  Maimonides

  Believe, Men, Ideas

  Moses Maimonides (1961). “The Guide for the Perplexed”, p.309, Courier Corporation

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• I have no intention of slurring over the differences we have with socialism, nor concealing my belief that we are the National Party of Great Britain, representing not narrow class interest, nor the bigotry of the left wing intellectuals, but all those who support the British tradition of democracy, of personal freedom, of personal responsibility for one's own affairs and those of one's family, with the least possible interference from the State.

  Norman Tebbit

  Party, Responsibility, Class

  Speech to Epping Conservatives, November 17, 1969.

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• Thought without language, says Lavelle, would not be a purer thought; it would be no more than the intention to think. And his last book offers a theory of expressiveness which makes of expression not "a faithful image of an already realized interior being, but the very means by which it is realized.

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  Book, Mean, Thinking

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1968). “In Praise of Philosophy”

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• A series of powers are at work within the great stream of Expressionism who have no outward similarity to one another but a common direction of thrust, namely the intention to give expression to things of the psyche [Seelisches] through form alone.

  Max Ernst

  Expression, Giving, Common

  Review of 'Rhenish Expressionists', Bonn, 1913.

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• I've had a chance to really stretch and do a lot of different genres. When I started acting, my whole focus and intention was to work as a stage actor in a company where you're asked to different roles - do a comedy, do a tragedy, etc. I haven't had any reservations about jumping from one type of genre to another.

  Kyle MacLachlan

  Jumping, Focus, Acting

  "Same Vest? Q&A: Kyle MacLachlan on 'Portlandia'". Interview with Paul Schrodt, www.esquire.com. January 4, 2013.

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