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No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slipperyand thought is viscous.
Don't report what he says, report what he means.
It would be unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which have never yet been tried.
We bless thee for our creation, preservation, and all the blessings of this life; but above all for thine inestimable love in the redemption of the world by our Lord Jesus Christ; for the means of grace, and for the hope of glory.
This only grant me, that my means may lie Too low for envy, for contempt too high.
Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.
He that purchases a manor will think to have an exact survey of the land, but who thinks of taking so exact a survey of his conscience, how that money was got that purchased that manor? We call that a man's means, which he hath; but that is truly his means, what way he came by it.
Perfections of means and confusion of goals seemin my opinionto characterize our age.
Errors look so very ugly in persons of small meansone feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of fortunemay naturally indulgeina few delinquencies.
It really means nothing in this country whatsoeverbut then being a writer here means nothing either.
Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.
The end cannot justify the means, for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced.
We are living now, not in the delicious intoxication induced by the early successes of science, but in a rather grisly morning-after, when it has become apparent that what triumphant science has donehitherto isto improve the means for achieving unimproved or actually deteriorated ends.
The philosophy which isso important in each of us isnot a technical matter; it is our more or less dumb sense of what life honestly and deeply means it is our individual way of just seeing and feeling the total push and pressure of the cosmos.
Politics are now nothing morethanmeans of rising inthe world.
Fine clothes are good onlyas they supply the want of other means of procuring respect.
Handle so, dass du die Menschheit, sowohl in deiner Person, als in der Person eines jeden andern, jederzeit zugleich als Zweck, niemals bloÞ als Mittel brauchst. Act in such a way that you always treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never simply as a means, but always at the same time as an end.
Poetry can communicate the actual quality of experience with a subtletyand precision unapproachable by any other means.
I am not charmed with the ideal of life held out by those who think that the normal state of human beings is that of struggling to get on. I know not why it should be a matter of congratulation that persons who are already richer than any one needs to be, should have doubled their means of consuming things which give little or no pleasure except as representative of wealth.
Power isnot a means, it is an end.One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
Il faut compter ses richesses par les moyens qu'on a de satisfaire ses de sirs. We must count our riches by the means we have to satisfy our desires.
Sceptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
We took away their countryand their means of support, broke up their mode of living, their habits of life, introduced disease and decayamong them and it was for this and against this they made war.Could anyone expect less?
Although woman has performed much of the labor of theworld, her industryand economy have beenthevery means of increasing her degradation.
The end may justify the means, as long as there is something that justifies the end.
Do all the good you can By all the means you can In all the ways you can In all the places you can To all the people you can As long as ever you can.
To make a start, out of particulars and make them general, rolling up the sum, by defective means Sniffing the trees, just another dog among a lot of dogs.What else is there? And to do?
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