Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.
Ovid

Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.
Douglas Horton

Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding.
David Hume

The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin.
Thomas Huxley

For me, the best times are always going to be the most intense, the ones with the highest highs and the lowest lows.
Fiona Apple

Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
Samuel Butler

I don't know if proud is the right word, but I am somebody who does not, on the whole, have the highest regard for my own stuff in that when I look all I get to see are the flaws.
Neil Gaiman

The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest.
Lyman Abbott

The highest qualities of character... must be earned.
Lyman Abbott

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
Louisa May Alcott

The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.
Herbert Spencer

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.
Herbert Spencer

The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.
Simone Weil

Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his.
Billy Sunday

Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars.
Nicolaus Copernicus

The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplacable being.
Tom Robbins

Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on one's wife alone.
Guru Nanak

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
Baruch Spinoza

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.
Samuel Johnson