Aristotle Quotes, Desire Quotes, Would Be Quotes

If, then, there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake (everything else being desired for the sake of this), and if we do not choose everything for the sake of something else (for at that rate the process would go on to infinity, so that our desire would be empty and vain), clearly this must be the good and the chief good.

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How much happier you would be, how much more of you there would be, if the hammer of a higher God could smash your small cosmos.

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In the past it never occurred to me that every casual remark of mine would be snatched up and recorded. Otherwise I would have crept further into my shell.

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It is not given to human beings, happily for them, for otherwise life would be intolerable, to foresee or to predict to any large extent the unfolding course of events.

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Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.

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If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

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The purpose of the present study is not as it is in other inquiries, the attainment of knowledge, we are not conducting this inquiry in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, else there would be no advantage in studying it. For that reason, it becomes necessary to examine the problem of our actions and to ask how they are to be performed. For as we have said, the actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed.

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When I talk about the assets, that was at the beginning of the talks. I was president then. I'm not president now. When I said it, this would be a sign of goodwill to begin the talks.

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If there were one word that could act as a standard of conduct for one's entire life, perhaps it would be 'thoughtfulness.

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After all, what would be "beautiful" if the contradiction had not first become conscious of itself, if the ugly had not first said to itself: "I am ugly"?.

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If we would be pure, if we would save Hinduism, we must rid ourselves of this poison of enforced widowhood.

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The love of the gods belongs to anyone who has given to true virtue and nourished it, and if any human being could become immortal, it would be he.

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If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct taste of the Georgians, and the refinement and pure ideals of the Victorians.

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If the Earth were a single state, Istanbul would be its capital.

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One who will study for three years. Without thought of reward. Would be hard indeed to find.

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We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes

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And he who would be friends with God must remain alone, or make the whole world his friend

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MAGNITUDE, n. Size [that is] purely relative. If everything in the universe were increased 1,000 diameters nothing would be any larger than it was before, but if one thing remain unchanged all the others would be larger than they had been.

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So she was considering in her own mind...whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up & picking the daisies.

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It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.

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