Summum Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

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

B.F. Skinner

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. It's not easy cutting welfare bills. It's not easy cutting the deficit.

George Osborne

#10. The historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that the whole of literature from Homer and within it the whole of the literature of his own country has a simultaneous existence and composes a simultaneous order.

T. S. Eliot

#11. By the 1990s, longevity will be so improved that 150 years will be no unusual age to reach.

Thomas De Witt Talmage

#12. A small artist is content with art; a great artist is content with nothing except everything.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#13. We outgrow love like other things and put it in a drawer, till it an antique fashion shows like costumes grandsires wore.

Emily Dickinson

#14. I'm so unmaterialistic in every way. If you saw my apartment, it would explain a lot, I think. It's not so much a mess, but it just needs to have some feng shui or a real 'Queer Eye' makeover or whatever.

Ariel Pink

#15. Therefore, when I approach God with my petitions I need to be aware that ultimately He must decide what needs to stay and what needs to go in order that I can become the person He created me to be.

Mitzi VanCleve

#16. You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.

Wayne W. Dyer