Great Throughts Treasury

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David Sarnoff

The final test of science is not whether it adds to our comfort, knowledge and power, but whether it adds to our dignity as men, our sense of truth.

Comfort | Dignity | Knowledge | Men | Power | Science | Sense | Truth |

Emma Goldman

The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.

Change | Dignity | Liberty | Life | Life | Man | Right |

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The new religion will teach the dignity of human nature and its infinite possibilities for development. It will teach the solidarity of the race and that all must rise and fall as one. Its creed will be justice, liberty, equality for all the children of earth.

Children | Creed | Dignity | Earth | Equality | Human nature | Justice | Liberty | Nature | Race | Religion | Teach | Will |

Francis Bacon

Men possessing minds which are morose, solemn, and inflexible enjoy generally a greater share of dignity than of happiness.

Dignity | Men |

George Santayana

Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.

Dignity |

George Santayana

If perfection is, as it should be, the ultimate justification of being, we may understand the ground of the moral dignity of beauty.

Beauty | Dignity | Justification | Perfection | Understand |

Helen Hayes

The truth [is] that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted in eternity.

Dignity | Eternity | Important | Love | Story | Truth |

Emil Brunner, fully Heinrich Emil Brunner

In the Kingdom of God there are no claims, but only love, which, as something which cannot be coordinated into a given structure, knows no calculations. All claimfulness is overcome because it is realized that complete dependence and freedom, human dignity and divine grace, are not opposites as the autonomous self-centered man supposes.

Dependence | Dignity | Freedom | God | Grace | Love | Man | Self | God |

George Santayana

Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.

Capacity | Despise | Dignity | Man |

Immanuel Kant

A lie is the abandonment and, as it were, the annihilation of the dignity of man.

Dignity | Man |

Immanuel Kant

Every man is to be respected as an absolute end in himself: and it is a crime against the dignity that belongs to him as a human being, to use him as a mere means for some external purpose.

Absolute | Crime | Dignity | Man | Means | Purpose | Purpose |

Jeremy Bentham

The word “independence” is united to the accessory ideas of dignity and virtue. The word “dependence” is united to the ideas of inferiority and corruption.

Corruption | Dependence | Dignity | Ideas | Inferiority | Virtue | Virtue |

Jawaharlal Nehru

There is only one thing that remains to us, that cannot be taken away: to act with courage and dignity and to stick to the ideals that have given meaning to life.

Courage | Dignity | Ideals | Life | Life | Meaning |

John Ruskin

The highest thoughts are those which are least dependent on language, and the dignity of any composition and praise to which it is entitled are in exact proportion to is dependency of language and expression.

Dignity | Language | Praise |

John Ruskin

A man is known to his dog by the smell, to his tailor by the coat, to his friend by the smile; each of these know him, but how little or how much depends on the dignity of the intelligence. That which is truly and indeed characteristic of the man is known only to God.

Dignity | Friend | God | Intelligence | Little | Man | Smile |

Cicero, fully Marcus Tullius Cicero, anglicized as Tully NULL

We ought to regard amiability as the quality of woman, dignity that of man.

Dignity | Man | Regard | Woman |

Margaret Thatcher, fully Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, née Roberts

We need a free economy not only for the renewed material prosperity it will bring, but because it is indispensable to individual freedom, human dignity and to a more just, more honest society.

Dignity | Freedom | Indispensable | Individual | Need | Prosperity | Society | Will |

Marshall Field

Twelve Things to Remember: The value of time. The success of perseverance. The pleasure of working. The dignity of simplicity. The worth of character. The power of kindness. The influence of example. The obligation of duty. The wisdom of economy. The virtue of patience. The improvement of talent. The joy of originating.

Character | Dignity | Duty | Example | Improvement | Influence | Joy | Kindness | Obligation | Patience | Perseverance | Pleasure | Power | Simplicity | Success | Time | Virtue | Virtue | Wisdom | Worth | Value |