The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
Wisdom is the power to perceive the best ends to aim at and the best means for reaching those ends.
As a result, ways out of the crisis are being intensively searched for at all levels - ways, which, however, aim at maintaining the whites' control over the country.
God's aim in human history is the creation of an inclusive community of loving persons, with himself included as its primary sustainer and most glorious inhabitant.
Philosophy should be an energy; it should find its aim and its effect in the amelioration of mankind.
If you start to just aim for what the audience wants to hear, you're already hamstrung because you don't have any freedom.
they who are not fastidious as to the means, seldom fail of securing the result they aim at.
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.
The aim of the painting is that the eye should find out what it likes.
The main aim is to up my game at every possible turn without compromise.
If you know much about your work - why you work, how you work, your aims - you are probably not a poet.
I could never really tell you what direction. It's just however God just makes it; that's how all of my albums are. I don't really aim for a direction, but I just pick the best beats I can pick and that's it.
You don't sell a commodity, you sell joy, gaiety, excitement. You aim at people's hearts, not their minds.
Don’t aim for perfection, aim for success.
The idea of choice is easily debased if one forgets that the aim is to have chosen successfully, not to be endlessly choosing.
To borrow from Mark Twain, I tend to think that reports of the death of supervaluationist approaches have been greatly exaggerated. The arguments that have been given against supervaluationism usually aim to show that it is just incoherent. But it's not. It may be false, as a general theory of vagueness, but it's a coherent and, I think, even correct way to think about some vagueness.
Resistance’s goal is not to wound or disable. Resistance aims to kill
Be kind, aim for my heart.
The class distinctions simply result from the different degrees of success with which men have availed themselves of the chances which were presented to them. Instead of endeavoring to redistribute the acquisitions which have been made between the existing classes, our aim should be to increase, multiply, and extend the chances.
The chief aim of Interpretation is not instruction, but provocation.