Ultimate Quotes - Page 38

• Only with the ultimate knowledge of all things will man have come to know himself. For things are but the boundaries of man.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Knowledge, Men, Boundaries

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• You call yourself free? I want to hear your ruling thought and not that you have escaped a yoke. Are you such a one as was permitted to escape a yoke? There are some who threw away their ultimate worth when they threw away their servitude. Free from what? What is that to Zarathustra! But your eyes should announce to me brightly: free for what?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Freedom, Eye, Yoke

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• Mathematics is merely the means to a general and ultimate knowledge of man.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mean, Men, Mathematics

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• Most of society thinks that biography is destiny, that the past equals the future, and of course it does if you live there...but what we really have to remind ourselves is that decision is the ultimate power.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Past, Destiny

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• The ultimate high: A man's abilities equaling his opinion of'em.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Men, Ems, Opinion

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• The ultimate in futility is owning important jewelry. Insurers often insist on the wearing of paste replicas because necks with real rocks around 'em risk wringing.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Real, Rocks, Risk

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• The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.

  William James

  Truth, Mean, Inspire

  William James (2002). “The Meaning of Truth”, p.300, Courier Corporation

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• Materialism means simply the denial that the moral order is eternal, and the cutting off of ultimate hopes; spiritualism means theaffirmation of an eternal moral order and the letting loose of hope.

  William James

  Mean, Cutting, Order

  William James (2012). “Pragmatism”, p.41, Courier Corporation

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• But of all the views of this law [universal education] none is more important, none more legitimate, than that of rendering the people the safe, as they are the ultimate, guardians of their own liberty.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Education, Views, Law

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• In metropolitan cases, the love of the most single-eyed lover, almost invariably, is nothing more than the ultimate settling of innumerable wandering glances upon some one specific object.

  Herman Melville

  Love, Cities, Settling

  Herman Melville (2016). “Pierre or The Ambiguities”, p.277, Herman Melville

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• As a novelist, I cannot occupy myself with "characters," or at any rate central ones, who lack panache, in one or another sense, who would be incapable of a major action or a major passion, or who have not a touch of the ambiguity, the ultimate unaccountability, the enlarging mistiness of persons "in history." History, as more austerely I now know it, is not romantic. But I am.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Passion, Character, History

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• From infancy, almost, the average girl is told that marriage is her ultimate goal; therefore her training and education must be directed toward that end. Like the mute beast fattened for slaughter, she is prepared for that.

  Emma Goldman

  Marriage, Girl, Average

  Emma Goldman (2012). “Marriage and Love”, p.6, The Floating Press

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• the heart,
  this child of myself that resides in the flesh,
  this ultimate signature of the me, the start
  of my blindness and sleep, builds a death crèche.

  Anne Sexton

  Children, Heart, Sleep

  Anne Sexton (1999). “Love Poems”, p.25, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Ah, Marilyn, Hollywood's Joan of Arc, our Ultimate Sacrificial Lamb. Well, let me tell you, she was mean, terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever known in this town. I am appalled by this Marilyn Monroe cult. Perhaps it's getting to be an act of courage to say the truth about her. Well, let me be courageous. I have never met anyone as utterly mean as Marilyn Monroe. Nor as utterly fabulous on the screen, and that includes Garbo.

  Billy Wilder

  Mean, Fabulous, Towns

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• Common sense should tell us that reading is the ultimate weapon--destroying ignorance, poverty and despair before they can destroyus. A nation that doesn't read much doesn't know much. And a nation that doesn't know much is more likely to make poor choices in the home, the marketplace, the jury box and the voting booth...The challenge, therefore, is to convince future generations of children that carrying a book is more rewarding than carrying guns.

  Jim Trelease

  Children, Book, Reading

  Jim Trelease (2001). “The Read-aloud Handbook”, Alloybooks

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• Why does philosophy use concepts and why does faith use symbols if both try to express the same ultimate? The answer, of course, is that the relation to the ultimate is not the same in each case. The philosophical relation is in principle a detached description of the basic structure in which the ultimate manifests itself. The relation of faith is in principle an involved expression of concern about the meaning of the ultimate for the faithful.

  Paul Tillich

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Expression

  Paul Tillich (1958). “Dynamics of faith”

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• Faith as ultimate concern is an act of the total personality. It happens in the center of the personal life and includes all its elements. Faith is the most centered act of the human mind. It is not a movement of a special section or a special function of man's total being. They all are united in the act of faith.

  Paul Tillich

  Faith, Personality, Mind

  "Dynamics of Faith". Book by Paul Tillich, 1957.

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• The mere fact of leaving ultimate social control in the hands of the people has not guaranteed that men will be able to conduct their lives as free men. Those societies where men know they are free are often democracies, but sometimes they have strong chiefs and kings.they have, however, one common characteristic: they are all alike in making certain freedoms common to all citizens, and inalienable.

  Ruth Benedict

  Strong, Kings, Freedom

  Ruth Benedict (2011). “An Anthropologist at Work”, p.392, Transaction Publishers

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• Teenage girls are extremists who see the world in black-and- white terms, missing shades of gray. Life is either marvelous or notworth living. School is either pure torment or is going fantastically. Other people are either great or horrible, and they themselves are wonderful or pathetic failures. One day a girl will refer to herself as "the goddess of social life" and the next day she'll regret that she's the "ultimate in nerdosity.

  Mary Pipher

  Girl, Teenage, Regret

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• I regard (parenting) as the hardest, most complicated, anxiety-ridden, sweat-and-blood-producing job in the world. Succeeding requires the ultimate in patience, common sense, commitment, humor, tact, love, wisdom, awareness, and knowledge. At the same time, it holds the possibility for the most rewarding, joyous experience of a lifetime, namely, that of being successful guides to a new and unique human being.

  Virginia Satir

  Jobs, Commitment, Successful

  Virginia Satir (1988). “The new peoplemaking”, Science & Behavior Books

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• The human race cannot go forward without liberty. If this be correct, then all people everywhere should strive for liberty. If they achieve liberty, they will get a chance to pursue happiness and perhaps will be able to develop toward the ultimate goal of creation.

  Richard E. Byrd

  Race, Goal, People

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• Again and again, faith in a possible satisfaction of the human race breaks through at the very moments of most zealous discord because humankind will never be able to live and work without this consoling delusion of its ascent into morality, without this dream of final and ultimate accord.

  Stefan Zweig

  Faith, Dream, Peace

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• The world has always needed human beings who refuse to believe that history is nothing but a dull, monstrous selfrepetition, a selfperpetuating, meaningless game, only varied in outer garb, who cannot be converted from their conviction that history signifies progress in morality, that our race is ascending on an invisible ladder from an animal nature towards divinity, from brutal violence to the wisely ordering intellect, and that the ultimate stage of complete understanding is already close at hand, indeed has almost been attained.

  Stefan Zweig

  Believe, Animal, Hands

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• The distortions and insults about organized religion will continue unabated as long as our popular culture continues its overall campaign against judgment and values. A war against standards leads logically and inevitably to hostility to religion because it is religious faith that provides the ultimate basis for all standards.

  Michael Medved

  Christian, Religious, War

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• I condemn Christianity; I bring against the Christian Church the most terrible of all accusations that an accuser has ever had in his mouth. It is, to me, the greatest of all imaginable corruptions; it seeks to work the ultimate corruption, the worse possible corruption. The Christian Church has left nothing untouched by its depravity; it has turned every value into worthlessness, and every truth into a lie, and every integrity into baseness of soul.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Christian, Religious, Integrity

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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