Summum Bonum Quotes

#1. The perfect state, the summum bonum, is Play. In play, life expresses itself in its fullness. God's life is play. Adam fell when his play became serious business .

Jakob Bohme

#2. Infinite Love is a weapon of matchless potency. It is the 'summum bonum' of life. It is an attribute of the brave, in fact it is their all. It does not come within the each of the coward. It is no wooden of lifeless dogma but a living and life-giving.

Mahatma Gandhi

#3. A greater subject fitteth Faustus' wit: Bid Economy10 farewell, and11 Galen come, Seeing, Ubi desinit philosophus, ibi incipit medicus: Be a physician, Faustus; heap up gold, And be eterniz'd for some wondrous cure: Summum bonum medicinae sanitas, The end of physic is our body's health.

Christopher Marlowe

#4. The summum bonum of this [Puritan] ethic is the earning of more and more money combined with the strict avoidance of all enjoyment.

Max Weber

#5. If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down.

B.F. Skinner

#6. To forgive is indeed the best form of self-interest since anger, resentment, and revenge are corrosive of that summum bonum, the greatest good.

Desmond Tutu

#7. Whatever the world thinks, he who hath not much meditated upon God, the human soul, and the summum bonum, may possibly make a thriving earthworm, but will most indubitably make a sorry patriot and a sorry statesman.

George Berkeley

#8. Thus to forgive is indeed the best form of self-interest since anger, resentment, and revenge are corrosive of that summum bonum, that greatest good, communal harmony that enhances the humanity and personhood of all in the community.

Desmond Tutu

#9. It is a poor reverie which invites a nap. One must even wonder whether, in this "failing asleep", the subconscious itself does not undergo a decline in being.

Gaston Bachelard

#10. Gratitude for the seemingly insignificant - a seed - this plants the giant miracle.

Ann Voskamp

#11. See the mountains kiss high Heaven
And the waves clasp one another;
No sister-flower would be forgiven
If it disdained its brother;
And the sunlight clasps the earth,
And the moonbeams kiss the sea -
What is all this sweet work worth
If thou kiss not me?

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#12. This is our high and holy calling-to be agents of Jesus Christ, to love as He loved, to serve as He served.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#13. I warm naturally to the drummer whose ideas and approach are strong, even if he doesn't quite have the ability to carry them out.

Bill Bruford

#14. Market prices are always wrong in the sense that they present a biased view of the future.

George Soros

#15. If you don't trust either the captain or the ship, there remains only one thing for safety: Trusting the storm!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#16. Civil disobedience is an act of love.

Tim DeChristopher

#17. The fight is won or lost far away from the witnesses, behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road; long before I dance under those lights.

Muhammad Ali

#18. What to do with life? Get out of bed, Derek. That's what you do. You get out of bed, and you get yourself a cup of fucking coffee. That's all you can do.

Allie Burke

#19. Don't fall in love with me. I hold within me a hundred prayers. My soul sings the lament of the damned. I am my own purgatory. I design my own hell.

Nessie Q.

#20. Well I'm a longtime AOL subscriber and I love the whole thing. I'm an email junkie and I love the internet, though 7th Heaven doesn't give me much free time to surf these days.

Stephen Collins