#toward

If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

#attitude #becomes #contents #demand #entailed

My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#out #own #sensibility #steers #their

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#inefficient #instead #instrument #losses #multiplies

But, in North Korea, it's just the opposite. There's one story. It's written by the Kim regime. And 23 million people are conscripted to be secondary characters. There, as a youth, your aptitude towards certain jobs is measured, and the rest of your life is dictated, whether you'll be a fisherman or a farmer or an opera singer. ↗

— Adam Johnson

#certain #characters #dictated #farmer #fisherman

I have not been more robust towards female rather than male assembly members and I do not believe I have been remotely sexist. ↗

— Boris Johnson

#been #believe #female #i #i do

Our first phase was inviting all the women Ambassadors who were here from other countries and trying to get in touch with all the peace centers around the country in order to focus on increasing the volume and activity toward peace. ↗

— Eddie Bernice Johnson

#around #centers #countries #country #first

The Way is not a religion: Christianity is the end of religion. 'Religion' means here the division between sacred and secular concerns, other-worldliness, man's reaching toward God in a way which projects his own thoughts. ↗

— David Kirk

#christianity #concerns #division #end #god

I'm on Governor Gray Davis' California Alliance Towards Education to bring the arts back to high schools. ↗

— Sally Kirkland

#arts #back #bring #california #davis

In heaven there are two distinct loves, love to the Lord and love towards the neighbor, in the inmost or third heaven love to the Lord, in the second or middle heaven love towards the neighbor. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

#heaven #inmost #lord #love #loves

There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion. ↗

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

#fundamental #hostility #part #regimes #religion