#mean

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#brought #cannot #full #home #many

All desirable things... are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as a means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#either #inherent #means #pain #pleasure

Men might as well be imprisoned, as excluded from the means of earning their bread. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#earning #excluded #imprisoned #means #men

I really am a thinker. I don't do things rash. I know some of the things I've said or the way I act seem rash. But I do take ownership of it. I don't say things I don't mean. ↗

— Bode Miller

#am #i #i do #know #mean

I thought Daredevil was kind of cool because he couldn't do anything. I mean, he's blind. It wasn't that he could fly. His major power was an impediment. So I was intrigued. When I took over he was kind of like Spider-Man-lite, but I was able to project a lot of my Catholic imagery onto it. And I'd always wanted to do a crime comic. ↗

— Frank Miller

#always #anything #because #blind #catholic

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. ↗

— Henry Miller

#aim #aware #divinely #live #means

We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy. ↗

— Henry Miller

#american #anarchy #control #danger #flags

Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself. ↗

— Henry Miller

#art #artist #becoming #defeats #end

Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire. ↗

— Henry Miller

#fire #honest #means #nothing #passion

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning. ↗

— Henry Miller

#fact #given #life #meaning #obvious