Psychology helps to measure the probability that an aim is attainable.
The aim is to illuminate and reveal the alluring world.
It is a mistake to suppose, with some philosophers of aesthetics, that art and poetry aim to deal with the general and the abstract. This misconception has been foisted upon us by mediaeval logic. Art and poetry deal with the concrete of nature, not with separate 'particulars,' for such rows do not exist.
The end we aim at must be known, before the way can be made.
My aim is to make the viewer become aware of his or her responsibility in what he or she is looking at.
I like the idea of being a student, and I play with very good musicians. So playing with them allows me to get better. My aim is to get better, but I really love it for its own sake.
Nihilism: any aim is lacking, any answer to the question "why" is lacking. What does nihilism mean?--that the supreme values devaluate themselves.
Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life's problems fall into place of their own accord. J. I. Packer Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you will get neither.
However often we turn to it [the Koran] at first disgusting us each time afresh, it soon attracts, astounds, and in the end enforces our reverence. . . . Its style, in accordance with its contents and aim is stern, grand, terrible - ever and anon truly sublime - Thus this book will go on exercising through all ages a most potent influence.
I really know nothing more criminal, more mean, and more ridiculous than lying. It is the production either of malice, cowardice, or vanity; and generally misses of its aim in every one of these views; for lies are always detected, sooner or later.
There is no art without a poetic aim.
In everything you do aim to excel for what is worth doing is worth doing well
You need to realise that you must have something to aim for, something to drive you.
The aim of marketing is to make selling superfluous.
Regarding History as the slaughter-bench at which the happiness of peoples, the wisdom of States, and the virtue of individuals have been victimized--the question involuntarily arises--to what principle, to what final aim these enormous sacrifices have been offered.
The ultimate aim of all science is to penetrate the unknown.
No society can prosper if it aims at making things easier-instead it should aim at making people stronger.
Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful. I only aim at the powerful. When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel -- it's vulgar.
My aim was never to be an American star; otherwise, I would have moved to Los Angeles.
We aim at simplicity and hope for truth.