Quotes about mean
mean color play
There's only one way to break the color line. Be good. I mean, play good. Play so good that they can't remember what color you were before the season started. Hank Aaron
mean men desire
The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it. Hannah Arendt
meaningful work decision
Of all human activities, only labor, and neither action nor work, is unending, progressing automatically in accordance with life itself and outside the range of willful decisions or humanly meaningful purposes.
meaningful freedom ferrets
It is a society of laborers which is about to be liberated from the ferrets of labor, and this society does no longer know of those other higher and more meaningful activities for the sake of which this freedom would deserve to be won.
mean thinking clue
Metaphysical fallacies contain the only clues we have to what thinking means to those who engage in it.
mean past goal
If a given science accidentally reached its goal, this would by no means stop the workers in the field, who would be driven past their goal by the sheer momentum of the illusion of unlimited progress.
mean trying guessing
Things change all the time, and theyll probably never be the same again. Its just the natural evolution of the human condition. Things change, and whatever it is is what it is. I mean, you try to start second guessing that, you either get rich or die broke. Guy Clark
mean ifs
But if you couldn't do everything, did that mean you did nothing? Guy Gavriel Kay
mean favors you-choose
Once you know what it means to choose in favor of yourself, there is no power in the universe that can make you choose against yourself. Guy Finley
meaningful fog confusion
Instead of always asking yourself how to clear up your mental fog, learn to ask: "Can confusion know anything about clarity?"
meaningful hurt asking-yourself-why
Instead of always asking yourself why so-and-so acts this or that way, learn to ask: "What's inside of me that wants to hurt itself over how anyone else acts?"
mean cells years
Statistics vary, but in less than seven years there won't be a single cell left in any of our bodies that's the same as it is today. This means that any human being who 'wants' to change is like a mountain river wanting to reach the valley floor. It's a done deal; that's what mountain rivers do, and 'changing' should be our first nature.
meaningful stress dark
True happiness isn't something that can be made. It isn't the result of anything. Happiness comes to those who understand that you can't seek it any more than you seek the air you breathe. It is a part of life to be found within living. ... All pursuit of happiness is based upon the false assumption that there is a way to possess it; you may as well try to grab a handful of breeze! Happiness is the natural expression of a stress-free life, just as sunlight naturally warms the Earth after dark clouds appear.
meaning tough
He's tough. He's a very tough inspector, meaning he is to the book.
meant speech
He told me he meant everything he said in his speech.
mean pushed
He told me he just got pushed into the middle. He didn't mean to be there.
mean greatness innocence
Of what is great one must either be silent or speak with greatness. With greatness--that means cynically and with innocence. Friedrich Nietzsche
mean creator values
A change of values - that means, a change of the creators of values. He who has to be a creator always has to destroy.
mean enemy coward
The coward does not know what it means to be alone: an enemy is always standing behind his chair.
mean men ideas
Go through the moral demands...one by one and you will find that man could not live up to them; the intention is not that he should become more moral, but that he should feel as sinful as possible. If man had failed to find this feeling pleasant - why should he have engendered such an idea and adhered to it for so long?... Man was by every means to be made sinful and thereby become excited, animated, enlivened in general. To excite, animate, enliven at any price...
mean thinking may
However much we may feel for the misery of someone close to us, we always act with some artificiality in their presence. We hold-back from telling them everything we think, often because we do not genuinely mean what we say; or because we take a pleasure in their plight, thankful that we are not affected.
mean sleep people
People who wish to numb our caution in dealing with them by means of flattery are employing a dangerous expedient, like a sleeping draught, which, if it does not put us to sleep, keeps us all the more awake.
mean sunshine people
There would be no sunshine in society if the born flatterers, I mean the so-called amiable people, did not bring it in with them.
mean self vanity
He who is usually self-sufficient becomes exceptionally vain and keenly alive to fame and praise when he is physically ill. The more he loses himself the more he has to endeavor to regain his position by means of the opinion of others.
mean men thinking
A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.--What was that god thinking who counseled, "Know thyself!" Did he perhaps mean,"Cease to concern yourself! Become objective!"--And Socrates?--And "scientific men"?
mean men mathematics
Mathematics is merely the means to a general and ultimate knowledge of man.
mean age culture
We belong to an age whose culture is in danger of perishing through the means to culture.
mean artist deceived-us
We grow hostile to many an artist or writer, not because we finally come to see he has deceived us, but because he thought no subtler means were required to ensnare us.
mean soul atheism
The soul must have its chosen sewers to carry away its ordure. This function is performed by persons, relationships, professions, the fatherland, the world, or finally, for the really arrogant - I mean our modern pessimists - by the Good God himself.
mean knowing atheism
Faith means the will to avoid knowing what is true.
mean needs degrees
For those who need consolation no means of consolation is so effective as the assertion that in their case no consolation is possible: it implies so great a degree of distinction that they at once hold up their heads again.
mean men lazy
If it is true to say of the lazy that they kill time, then it is greatly to be feared that an era which sees its salvation in public opinion, this is to say private laziness, is a time that really will be killed: I mean that it will be struck out of the history of the true liberation of life. How reluctant later generations will be to have anything to do with the relics of an era ruled, not by living men, but by pseudo-men dominated by public opinion.
mean men long
Moralities and religions are the principal means by which one can make whatever one wishes out of man, provided one possesses a superfluity of creative forces and can assert one's will over long periods of time in the form of legislation and customs.