A Quote by Archibald Alexander Hodge

No man can ever raise above that that which he aims.

Archibald Alexander Hodge

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Archibald Alexander Hodge
July 18, 1823 - November 12, 1886

Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

Voltaire

What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not have existed in solitude : the aims of friendship , religion , science , and art .

George Santayana

Man cannot become attached to higher aims and submit to a rule if he sees nothing above him to which he belongs. To free him from all social pressure is to abandon him to himself and demoralize him.

Emile Durkheim

It is so rare to meet with a man outdoors who cherishes a worthy thought in his mind, which is independent of the labor of his hands. Behind every man's busy-ness there should be a level of undisturbed serenity and industry, as within the reef encircling a coral isle there is always an expanse of still water, where the depositions are going on which will finally raise it above the surface.

Henry David Thoreau

Mephistopheles, the machine man, can provide us with all the means, and is thus likely to determine the aims of life as well. But of course the characteristic of Faust, which makes him eligible to be saved, is that he seeks aims that are not those of the machine.

Joseph Campbell

Philosophy may raise us above grandeur, but nothing can elevate us above the ennui which accompanies it.

Francoise d'Aubigne, Marquise de Maintenon

The greatest risk to man is not that he aims to high and misses, but that he aims to low and hits.

Michelangelo

Only passions can raise a man above the level of the animal.

Andre Maurois

What a vile and abject thing is man if he do not raise himself above humanity.

Seneca the Younger

The reason why women effect so little and are so shallow is because their aims are low, marriage is the prize for which they strive; if foiled in that they rarely rise above disappointment.

Sarah Moore Grimke

Man's inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.

Viktor E. Frankl

An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.

Eduard Hanslick

Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is nothing more man needs than Divine Mercy - that love which is benevolent, which is compassionate, which raises man above his weakness to the infinite heights to the holiness of God.

Pope John Paul II

Google has helped raise the importance of DNS above the network engineering community, which has been really good.

David Ulevitch

Like the vain curlings of the watery maze, Which in smooth streams a sinking weight does raise, So Man, declining always, disappears In the weak circles of increasing years; And his short tumults of themselves compose, While flowing Time above his head does close.

Andrew Marvell

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