Firsts Quotes - Page 313

You are a man still young, so to say, in your first youth and so put intellect above everything.

Equality lies only in human moral dignity. ... Let there be brothers first, then there will be brotherhood, and only then will there be a fair sharing of goods among brothers.

I think I can be competitive. Heck, anybody who can walk to the first tee here has a chance.

Socrates ... is the first philosopher of life [Lebensphilosoph], ... Thinking serves life, while among all previous philosophers life had served thought and knowledge. ... Thus Socratic philosophy is absolutely practical: it is hostile to all knowledge unconnected to ethical implications.

The Germans would appear as the disturbers of peace, as they already do to some people, merely because they were the first to take the path along which all the others were ultimately to follow.

I am first and foremost an actress of Indian origin.

If a cream can give you confidence then you really have to check your whole confidence department in the first place.

It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology.

You don't love perfectly without first loving imperfectly.

The first sexual experience is a significant imprinting of attention.

The Buddha gave his first talks, and three or four ascetics became his first disciples. They recognized his enlightenment.

The unlocking of the kundalini, which occurs by meditating on the first, second and third chakras, is the entrance into the planes of power.

Their whole life will begin to shift, from their first physical contact with you.

You must first realize that you are in a dream. Then you must realize that your current dream is a nightmare.

For the first time, we live in a society that shows any sign of the possibility of women changing this condition.

God is seen as a male whose first creation was another man, Adam, whom we are told was made in his image and likeness.

A teacher will have an initial contact at some point with someone. It happens inwardly first. Before you ever meet an advanced teacher, they have somehow traveled inwardly along the astral planes.

Without enlightenment, everything in life is harsh. Sooner or later you see everyone you love die, unless you die first, of course. This causes you to suffer.

I was very fortunate, and have always been, that the women I met and fell in love with were exceptional, from my first girlfriend to the woman I married when I was 21, to all the remarkable women I have known as either friends or lovers.

From the first I saw no chance of bettering the condition of the freedman until he should cease to be merely a freedman and should become a citizen.

The first piece of luggage out of the chute doesn't belong to anyone, ever.

Don't worry about where you are. Watch the first derivative.

I was on the wrong side of colonization. My ancestry is mostly mired in having the colonial experience as colonized subjects, first as slaves and then as independent subjects with a post-colonial experience.

Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me.

Let the will embrace the highest ideals freely and with infinite strength, but let action first take hold of what lies closest.