If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.
quote by Leo Strauss
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The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, is to understand things by intuition.
Baruch Spinoza in The Ethics
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To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
quote by William Hazlitt
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To think ill of mankind, and not to wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
quote by William Hazlitt
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The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.
The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.
Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.
quote by Henry B. Adams
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The Power!
the highest form of art,
the highest form of philosophy,
the highest form of spirituality,
comes in the applied interaction
of peoples with each other...
taking the time to listen, to care,
to understand, to feel, to forgive,
to work together, and to see each
other in ourselves...
you cant write it any better, you
cant paint it any better, you cant
play it any better, you cant pray
it any better!
this is the power that created
the cosmos... and does so again
and again... the power that turns
the seasons, and brings the dawn...
this is the light that darkness
cannot swallow...
poem by Eric Cockrell
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In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.
quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
quote by George Washington
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Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.
quote by John Henry Newman
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The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.
quote by James Madison
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The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.
quote by John W. Gardner
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The Ripest Peach
The ripest peach is highest on the tree --
And so her love, beyond the reach of me,
Is dearest in my sight. Sweet breezes, bow
Her heart down to me where I worship now!
She looms aloft where every eye may see
The ripest peach is highest on the tree.
Such fruitage as her love I know, alas!
I may not reach here from the orchard grass.
I drink the sunshine showered past her lips
As roses drain the dewdrop as it drips.
The ripest peach is highest on the tree,
And so mine eyes gaze upward eagerly.
Why -- why do I not turn away in wrath
And pluck some heart here hanging in my path? --
Love's lower boughs bend with them -- but, ah me!
The ripest peach is highest on the tree!
poem by James Whitcomb Riley
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The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.
quote by Lord Macaulay
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...happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it...
Beggars and prostitutes
I bow to beggars,
Who bear the highest humiliation.
I bow to prostitutes,
Who bear the highest contempt,
They are near the God,
Having annihilated their egos.
16.11.2011
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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The man form is higher than the angel form; of all forms it is the highest. Man is the highest being in creation, because he aspires to freedom.
quote by Paramahansa Yogananda
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If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country.
quote by Danny Glover
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To Boris Pilnyak
Ah, don't I know that, groping in the gloom,
Night would not find its way out of the dark?
Am I monster who the millions' doom
Would shrug away for a few hundreds' luck?
Am I not measured by the Five-Year Plan?
Its falls and rises, aren't they also mine?
What shall I do, though, with my heartbeat, and
With things whose sluggishness boggles the mind?
In highest councils, in those spheres where reign
The highest passions and the strongest will,
The poet's post has been set up in vain:
It's dangerous-unless it's left unfilled.
poem by Boris Pasternak
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The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of which the heart is capable; it is the highest degree of prayer. The souls that have reached this point are truly the heart of the Church.
quote by Edith Stein
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