Quotes About Aim

Nothing can express the aim and meaning of our work better than the profound words of St. Augustine - 'Beauty is the splendor of Truth.'

In thus pointing out certain respects in which philosophy resembles literature more than science, I do not mean, of course, to imply that it would be well for philosophy if it ceased to aim at scientific rigor.

Between social reforms and revolution there exists for the social democracy an indissoluble tie. The struggle for reforms is its means; the social revolution, its aim.

Truth is the aim of story. And though we must take into account the human author's subjectivity and personal slant, the best authors are those who tap universal longings and make connections to our real, lived humanity.

Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.

Within our lifetime, we can remember a time when Islamism wasn't the dominant form of discourse or the aim should be to minimise the absolutists within any religious community and contain them.

Prepositions are to language as aim is to a gun.

Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing.

what he wants. And

Shall we not, like archers who have a mark to aim at, be more likely to hit upon what is right?

Every skill and every inquiry, and similarly every action and rational choice, is thought to aim at some good; and so the good had been aptly described as that at which everything aims.

Lawgivers make the citizens food by training them in habits of right action - this is the aim of all legislation, and if it fails to do this it is a failure.

Every art or applied science and every systematic investigation, and similarly every action and choice, seem to aim at some good; the good, therefore, has been well defined as that at which all things aim.

Happiness, therefore, being found to be something final; and self-sufficient, is the end at which all actions aim.

Every art and every inquiry, and likewise every action and choice, seems to aim at some good, and hence it has been beautifully said that the good is that at which all things aim.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason is the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

It is a characteristic common to all perversions that in them reproduction as an aim is put aside.

That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.

All mediocrity flies from the light.

The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when all your arrows are spent.

Everything is aimed at producing joy in God's people

Set the goal to get

and he turned his aim on another poor ignorant miserable anonymous bastard crouched behind another gun. A bastard whom he didn't know, had never known, would never know, and couldn't hate specifically, but kill and kill and kill and kill—and

Not to aim to show God is not to love, because God is what we need the most deeply. And to have all else without Him is to perish in the end.