5,159 Quotes About Mean

Materialism means simply the denial that the moral order is eternal, and the cutting off of ultimate hopes; spiritualism means theaffirmation of an eternal moral order and the letting loose of hope.

Truth in our ideas means their power to work.

Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.

Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.

Faith is one of the forces by which men live, and the total absence of it means collapse

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.

That reality is 'independent' means that there is something in every experience that escapes our arbitrary control. If it be a sensible experience it coerces our attention; if a sequence, we cannot invert it; if we compare two terms we can come to only one result. There is a push, an urgency, within our very experience, against which we are on the whole powerless, and which drives us in a direction that is the destiny of our belief.

Those who suffer from the abuse of drugs have themselves to blame for it. This does not mean that society is absolved from active concern for their plight. It does mean that their plight is subordinate to the plight of those citizens who do not experiment with drugs but whose life, liberty, and property are substantially affected by the illegalization of the drugs sought after by the minority.

It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.