Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
W. H. Auden

The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
Leon Trotsky

Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.
Benjamin Disraeli

To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
Bertolt Brecht

I am a comic writer, which means I get to slay the dragons, and shoot the bull.
Rita Mae Brown

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.
John Ruskin

No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.
John Ruskin

What Christ gives us is quite explicit if his own words are interpreted according to their Aramaic meaning. The expression 'This is my Body' means this is myself.
Karl Rahner

They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won't get played Huh?
Kanye West

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
Bertrand Russell

Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.
Bertrand Russell

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.
William James

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
William James

Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
William James

Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.
William James

Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you.
E. Stanley Jones

Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment.
E. Stanley Jones

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.
Charles Baudelaire

We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.
Charles Baudelaire

There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what for me is inexpressible by any other means.
David Bowie