#aim

We now need to look beyond our immediate future and aim higher and farther. ↗

— Paul Biya

#beyond #farther #future #higher #immediate

It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#almost #become #boast #boasts #claim

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self. ↗

— Hugo Black

#condition #first #full #happiness #lasting

A timeline for bringing U.S. troops home that is negotiated with the Iraqi government would also boost the Iraqi government's legitimacy and claim to self-rule, and force the Iraqi government to take responsibility for itself and its citizens. ↗

— Peter DeFazio

#boost #bringing #citizens #claim #force

We aim to express the passion of our members in something actionable that we can all in fact do. ↗

— Joan Blades

#aim #express #fact #in fact #members

I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth. ↗

— Anita Desai

#aim #any #avoid #fantasy #i

To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster! ↗

— Denis Diderot

#attempt #complete #desire #destruction #end

A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image. ↗

— Joan Didion

#claims #forever #hardest #his #image

The aim of literary ambition is to demonstrate one's greatness of soul. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#ambition #demonstrate #greatness #literary #soul

If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context. ↗

— Wilhelm Dilthey

#anthropology #beings #context #experience #human