Telos Quotes

#1. The end of man (as a factual anthropological limit) is announced to thought from the vantage of the end of man (as a determined opening or the infinity of a telos ). Man is that which is in relation to his end, in the fundamentally equivocal sense of the word. Since always.

Jacques Derrida

#2. The ultimate goal of technology, the telos of techne, is to replace a natural world that's indifferent to our wishes - a world of hurricanes and hardships and breakable hearts, a world of resistance - with a world so responsive to our wishes as to be, effectively, a mere extension of the self.

Jonathan Franzen

#3. Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]

Irving Stone

#4. I can't let my mother's death have been in vain. Democracy is the best revenge, and we will have it.

Bilawal Bhutto Zardari

#5. With cold hands he massaged her right foot, his fingertips digging into all the right places to make her groan.
"Feel good?" he asked.
"You can't imagine. You have until midnight to stop."
He chuckled. "Why midnight?"
"Because from then until daylight you can work on the other foot.

Carolyn Brown

#6. From what I've seen, a girl's got to behave like a mental midget before she'll get any action in this town. If resisting that makes me a freak, so be it. I may die with my hymen intact, but at least I'll have my dignity" ~ Confessions of a Triple Shot Betty

Jody Gehrman

#7. I am not the perishable body, but the eternal Self.

Ramana Maharshi

#8. Moral self-infatuation has its own corruptions, after all. With time, almost every other principle of the magazine acquired an ironic echo, a sort of cackling aftermath.

Renata Adler

#9. I feel like I've been in love, but I have stood aside from it over and over again in my life. It's all you want, but it's terrifying.

Adam Duritz

#10. We believe that if the Bible is God speaking, then the most important posture of the Christian before the Bible is to listen.

Tremper Longman III

#11. Little mouse, you were so quick, so bright, so sweet, so full of life. And you still are everything you were then. None of it's lost forever. All that promise, all that hope, that love and goodness - it's still inside you. No one can take the gifts God gave you. Only you.

Dean Koontz

#12. It's ridiculous to repeat costly mistakes because you believe there is always a next chance. Mistakes may flow, but you have all it takes to close the canals they used!

Israelmore Ayivor

#13. I yearn for you tragically.

Joseph Heller