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Judaism
The author has deliberately attempted to write this book in a secular spirit; he does not think that his readers can fail to see in it, on every page, a higher immanence"
Walden
We are a race of tit-men, and soar but little higher in our intellectual flights than the columns of the daily paper. It is not all books that are as dull as their readers.
Albert Einstein
A new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive and move toward higher levels. From "Atomic Education Urged by Einstein", New York Times (25 May 1946), and ...
Yann Martel
That won't make you see higher or further or differently. You want a flat story. An immobile story. You want dry, yeastless factuality. Chapter 99, p. 336
Intelligence
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as strong to think. Ralph Waldo Emerson, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary ...
John Stuart Mill
To tax the larger incomes at a higher percentage than the smaller is to lay a tax on industry and economy; to impose a penalty on people for having worked harder and ...
Immanuel Kant
He who leaves unused the natural predisposition to goodness which lies in human nature (like a talent entrusted to him) in lazy confidence that a higher moral influence ...
Friedrich Nietzsche
Traffic with one's higher self. Everyone has his good day, when he finds his higher self; and true humanity demands that we judge someone only when he is in this ...
William H. Seward
But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes. Speech, United States Senate (11 ...
Humility
The beggar, on the other hand, falls to his knees at the drop of a hat and scrapes the floor to anyone he deems to be higher; but at the same time, he demands that ...
Robert H. Jackson
The power of citizenship as a shield against oppression was widely known from the example of Paul's Roman citizenship, which sent the centurion scurrying to his higher-ups ...
Charles Darwin
I was told before leaving England that after living in slave countries all my opinions would be altered; the only alteration I am aware of is forming a much higher ...
The World Is Flat
Somehow we got through this transition from an agriculture based society 100 years ago to an industrial-based one -- and still ended up with a higher standard of living ...
Otto Hahn
Usually, a discovery is not made in the easiest but on a complicated way; the simple cases show up only later.
John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
Alvin C. York
A higher power than man power guided and watched over me and told me what to do.
Aristotle
... and in their character, and have only a moderate share of external goods, than among those who possess external goods to a useless extent but are deficient in higher ...
Mark Hopkins (educator)
Who shall breathe into our civil and political relations the breath of a higher life? Who shall touch the eyes of a paganized science, and of a pantheistic philosophy ...
Socrates
Has a philosopher like you failed to discover that our country is more to be valued and higher and holier far than mother or father or any ancestor, and more to be ...
Layer Cake
You climb a little higher, you take less shit. Till one day you're up in the rarefied atmosphere and you've forgotten what shit even looks like.
Faith
Faith is a higher faculty than reason. Philip James Bailey, Festus (1813), Proem, line 84. Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without ...
Ellen G. White
It is not earthly rank, nor birth, nor nationality, nor religious privilege, which proves that we are members of the family of God; it is love, a love that embraces ...
I Am America (And So Can You!)
If marriage is suddenly available to everyone, I'm not sure I want to make those sacrifices. Chapter Eight: Higher Education. Pain is the body's way of telling the brain ...
Charlie Parker
I found that by using the higher intervals of a chord as a melody line and backing them with appropriately related changes I could play the thing I'd been hearing.
Real Genius
Mitch: Yeah... Chris Knight: Think before you ask these questions, Mitch. Twenty points higher than me? Thinks a big guy like that can wear your clothes?
The Great Mouse Detective
Ratigan, no one can have a higher opinion of you than I have, and I think you're a slimy, contemptible sewer rat! [everything goes turned off the band of Uniforms] Please!!
King Arthur (film)
Deeds in themselves are meaningless unless they are done for some higher purpose. We have waged a war to protect a Rome that doesn't exist. Is that the deed I am to be ...
Theodore Parker
The laws of matter are known to us because they are kept; there the ideal and actual are the same; but man has in his nature a rule of conduct higher than what he has ...
Florence Nightingale
We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master.
A Fish Called Wanda
I've worn dresses with higher IQs! [to Otto] Even if you were my brother, I'd still want to fuck you. [to Otto] I knew you'd come along and fuck it up!
Thomas Edison
I am convinced that the body is made up of entities that are intelligent and are directed by this Higher Power. When one cuts his finger, I believe it is the intelligence ...
Metallica
"The higher you are / the farther you fall / the longer the walk / the farther you crawl" "Open my eyes just to have them closed again." Until it Sleeps
Women
Queens you must always be: queens to your lovers; queens to your husbands and your sons, queens of higher mystery to the world beyond . But, alas, you are too often ...
The Road
The Road is a 2006 novel by American writer Cormac McCarthy. It is a post-apocalyptic tale describing a journey taken by a father and his young son over a period of ...
Worship
All who wait upon the Lord shall rise higher and higher upon the mighty pinions of strong devotion, and with the unblinking eye of faith, into the regions of heavenly ...
Ronald David Laing
The requirement of the present, the failure of the past, is the same: to provide a thoroughly self-conscious and self-critical human account of man.
Soul Plane
We fuckin' higher than Redman at the Source Awards! Flame [calmly, after a stewardess has whispered something into his ear] I'll handle this. [screams] THE CAPTAIN'S DEAD!
George Bernard Shaw
But even if man's increased command over Nature included any increased command over himself (the only sort of command relevant to his evolution into a higher being), the ...
George Mallory
Gradually, very gradually, we saw the great mountain sides and glaciers and aretes, now one fragment and now another through the floating rifts, until far higher in the ...
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (film)
My attorney had never caught on to the notion espoused by some former drug users that you can get a lot higher without drugs than with them. And neither have I, for that ...
Human, All Too Human
Of First and Last Things "Esteeming humble truths. It is the sign of a higher culture to esteem more highly the little, humble truths, those discovered by a strict ...
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The consciousness of life is higher than life, the knowledge of the laws of happiness is higher than happiness that is what one must contend against.
The Secret (film)
The universe ...is [like] a grand Genii [which] traditions have called with so many names like the holy guardian angel, your higher self ... [and it] says only one thing ...
Kurt Vonnegut
Every passing hour brings the Solar System forty-three thousand miles closer to Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules and still there are some misfits who insist that ...
Alan Greenspan
Greenspan suggested the government should boost support to homeowners facing the prospect of losing their homes because their mortgages are resetting to higher interest ...
Eagles
And even if he for ever flies within the gorge, that gorge is in the mountains; so that even in his lowest swoop the mountain eagle is still higher than other birds upon ...
The Sound of Music
The gates were open and the hills were beckoning and everything was so green and fresh, and the Untersberg kept leading me higher and higher, as if it wanted me to go ...
The Great Gatsby
And as the moon rose higher the inessential houses began to melt away until gradually I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors eyes ...

 

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higher
  1. comparative form of high: more high
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