Attaining Quotes
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In the course of time one does not feel even the existence of God. After attaining enlightenment one sees that gods and deities are all Maya.
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More Attaining Quotes
The ultimate goal of human life is to attain spiritual perfection (moksha), or freedom from transmigration of the atman . The social existence of an individual is means for attaining this supreme goal. Since an individual cannot attain moksha without fulfilling his (her) individual and social duties, responsibilities and obligations, Hindu social philosophy...includes the essential social principles and practices, goals of human life: dharma (moral law), artha (wealth), kama (pleasure), and moksha (spiritual perfection, the ultimate goal).
— Bansi Pandit, in The Hindu Mind: Fundamentals of Hindu Religion and Philosophy for All Ages (1 January 2001), p.279
He is a truly complex fellow, not unlike the Michelangelos and da Vincis of the Renaissance period. He's a supreme artist but he is constantly filled with doubts and self-anger about his work--and that is what makes him so good. He is a perfectionist who is never sure he is attaining perfection.
— Rouben Mamoulian, quoted in Satchell, Tim. Astaire, The Biography. Hutchinson, London. 1987. ISBN 0091737362. p.200.
He was the only person in American history for whom attaining the White House was a bad career move.
Bill Bryson— 1998 On Herbert Hoover. Notes from a Big Country.
The office of the Vice-President is a greater honor than I ever dreamed of attaining.
chester a. arthur— Quoted in Random Recollections of an Old Political Reporter, William C. Hudson (1911).
Blues. An American dance stemming from the Foxtrot, the speed of which it reduced and into which it brought a deliberately contrived dismal atmosphere. When Blues are sung their words seem to aim at attaining to the utmost depths of gloom and inanity.
eric blom— Article, Blues, p. 60
A patron of cranks ...[throughout his work runs] the feeling that no matter how honest scientists think they are, they are still influenced by various unconscious assumptions that prevent them from attaining true objectivity. Expressed in a sentence, Fort's principle goes something like this: People with a psychological need to believe in marvels are no more prejudiced and gullible than people with a psychological need not to believe in marvels.
charles fort— Colin Wilson, in Mysteries (1978)
The chief aim of education is to show you, after you make a livelihood, how to enjoy living; and you can live longest and best and most rewardingly by attaining and preserving the happiness of learning.
gilbert highet— The Immortal Profession: The Joys of Teaching and Learning (1976)
The conclusion to which I am ever more clearly coming is that the only hope of attaining a true system of economics is to fling aside,once and forever, the mazy and preposterous assumptions of the Ricardian school. Our English economists have been living in a fool's paradise. The truth is with the French school, and the sooner we recognize the fact, the better it will be for all the world, except perhaps the few writers who are far too committed to the old erroneous doctrines to allow for renunciation.
william stanley jevons— Preface To The Second Edition, p. 27-28
A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.
horace mann— As quoted in Words for Teachers to Live By (2002) by Mary Engelbreit
I spent on the Other Earth many "other years," wandering from mind to mind and country to country, but I did not gain any clear understanding of the psychology of the Other Men and the significance of their history till I encountered one of their philosophers, an aging but still vigorous man whose eccentric and unpalatable views had prevented him from attaining eminence.
Olaf Stapledon— Ch.III The Other Earth, 1. On the Other Earth p. 26
The unambitious sluggard pretends that the eminence is not worth attaining, declines altogether the struggle, and calls himself a philosopher. I say he is a poor-spirited coward.
william makepeace thackeray— The Luck of Barry Lyndon (1844).
The Master would insist that the final barrier to our attaining God was the word and concept "God."
anthony de mello— Incompetence
For Appetite with an opinion of attaining, is called HOPE. The same, without such opinion, DESPAIRE.
thomas hobbes— The First Part, Chapter 6, p. 25
Of all Discourse , governed by desire of Knowledge, there is at last an End , either by attaining, or by giving over.
thomas hobbes— The First Part, Chapter 7, p. 30
For my part I think that capitalism, wisely managed, can probably be made more efficient for attaining economic ends than any alternative system yet in sight, but that in itself it is in many ways extremely objectionable.
john maynard keynes— Ch. 5 (The End of Laissez-faire (1926))
You shall find, that there cannot be a greater spur to the attaining what you would have the eldest learn, and know himself, than to set him upon teaching it his younger brothers and sisters .
john locke— Sec. 119 (Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693))
At the classical origins of philosophic thought, the transcending concepts remained committed to the prevailing separation between intellectual and manual labor to the established society of enslavement. ... Those who bore the brunt of the untrue reality and who, therefore, seemed to be most in need of attaining its subversion were not the concern of philosophy. It abstracted from them and continued to abstract from them.
herbert marcuse— pp. 134-135 (One-Dimensional Man (1964))
Two forms of government are favorable to the prevalence of falsehood and deceit. Under a Despotism , men are false, treacherous, and deceitful through fear , like slaves dreading the lash. Under a Democracy they are so as a means of attaining popularity and office, and because of the greed for wealth .
albert pike— Ch. III : The Master, p. 65
No matter how honest scientists think they are, they are still influenced by various unconscious assumptions that prevent them from attaining true objectivity. Expressed in a sentence, Fort 's principle goes something like this: People with a psychological need to believe in marvels are no more prejudiced and gullible than people with a psychological need not to believe in marvels.
colin wilson— Mysteries (1978)
These cruel and wretched haters, the vilest of men, I continually cast into demoniac wombs in mortal worlds. Fallen into demoniac wombs, deluded birth after birth, O son of Kunti, they, instead of attaining to Me, tread the lowest path.
— Krishna; Chapter 16, verses 19–20; Jogindranath Mukharji translation, first published in 1900 under the title Young Men's Gita.
I should be extremely sorry to find that in a fictitious proceeding, instituted for the more easy attaining of justice, different rules were to obtain in the different Courts.
— Lord Kenyon, C.J., Goodright v. Rich (1797), 7 T. R. 334.
To write upon all is an author's sole chance For attaining, at last, the least knowledge of any.
thomas moore— Thomas Moore, Humorous and Satirical Poems, Literary Advertisement.
To practice tantra requires even greater compassion and greater intelligence than are required on the sutra path; thus, though many persons in the degenerate era are interested in tantra, tantra is not for degenerate persons. Tantra is limited to persons whose compassion is so great that they cannot bear to spend unnecessary time in attaining Buddhahood , as they want to be a supreme source of help and happiness for others quickly.
— By Dalai Lama XIV in Jeffrey Hopkins (1983). Meditation on Emptiness. Wisdom Publications. p. 111. ISBN 978-0-86171-014-0.
In the course of time one does not feel even the existence of God. After attaining enlightenment one sees that gods and deities are all Maya.
— Swami Tapasyananda, Swami Nikhilananda. Sri Sarada Devi, the Holy Mother; Life and Conversations. p. 297.
The chief aim of education is to show you, after you make a livelihood, how to enjoy living; and you can live longest and best and most rewardingly by attaining and preserving the happiness of learning.
— The Immortal Profession: The Joys of Teaching and Learning (1976)
We have abundant reason to rejoice, that, in this land, the light of truth and reason has triumphed over the power of bigotry and superstition, and that every person may here worship God according to the dictates of his own heart. In this enlightened age, & in this land of equal liberty, it is our boast, that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the laws, nor deprive him of the right of attaining & holding the highest offices that are known in the United States.
— George Washington, letter to The New Church (22 January 1793).
Bhakti is knowledge of Brahman , an unfailing recollection of the supreme Lord, a constant meditation on Him which develops into direct perception of Him....Disinterested performance of obligatory rituals removes the obstacles to knowledge , such actions become the means of attaining the constant memory of God .
— Ramanuja quoted in "Hindu spirituality: Postclassical and modern", by K. R. Sundararajan in p. 51
As the essence of Matter is Gravity, so, on the other hand, we may affirm that the substance, the essence of Spirit is Freedom . All will readily assent to the doctrine that Spirit, among other properties, is also endowed with Freedom; but philosophy teaches that all the qualities of Spirit exist only through Freedom; that all are but means for attaining Freedom; that all seek and produce this and this alone.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, in Lectures on the Philosophy of History (1832)
