#supreme

Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone is genius the supreme health and balance of all the faculties. ↗

— Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

#balance #faculties #fundamental #genius #health

And, indeed, though they differ concerning other things, yet all agree in this: that they think there is one Supreme Being that made and governs the world, whom they call, in the language of their country, Mithras. ↗

— Thomas More

#being #call #concerning #country #differ

Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss. ↗

— Guru Nanak

#attains #bliss #constantly #him #his

The nation will be shaped for decades by decisions that are made by President Bush and the Senate about the future of the Supreme Court. ↗

— Ralph Neas

#bush #court #decades #decisions #future

It becomes us in humility to make our devout acknowledgments to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe for the inestimable civil and religious blessings with which we are favored. ↗

— James K. Polk

#blessings #civil #devout #favored #humility

The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy. ↗

— Lamar S. Smith

#court #elected #policy #proper #social

The Supreme cult does not bear any relationship with the ordinary course of life. The physical body, after attainment of the Supreme Cult will remain as it was before. It will feel pleasure and pain as it used to do. One must be earning his honest livelihood. It is only possible for a man without the least tinge of desire that ‘to see God is for the sake of seeing God’ and ‘to attain God is for the sake of attaining God’ only." - Sri Jibankrishna ↗

— Jibankrishna

#god #physical #supreme #relationship

So was it a political mistake for Obama to put so many eggs in the health-care-reform basket? Well, a negative decision from the Supreme Court will certainly make it appear so. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#basket #certainly #court #decision #eggs

Well, the idea of God as a supreme being means that he is simply like us, writ large, and just bigger and better, the end product of the series; whereas this divine personality that we meet in the Bible was, for centuries, regarded simply as a symbol of a greater transcendence that lay beyond it. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#better #beyond #bible #bigger #centuries

France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

#france #great #none #supreme