There can be no finality in politics.
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Quarterly Review, 123, 1867, p. 557.Robert Gascoyne-Cecil
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The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness. For where there is no consciousness there is no finality, finality presupposing a purpose. And... faith in God is based simply upon the vital need of giving finality to existence, of making it answer to a purpose. We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the Universe.
Miguel de Unamuno
Finality, Sir, is not the language of politics.
Benjamin Disraeli
And what is its moral proof? We may formulate it thus: Act so that in your own judgment and in the judgment of others you may merit eternity, act so that you may become irreplaceable, act so that you may not merit death. Or perhaps thus: Act as if you were to die tomorrow, but to die in order to survive and be eternalized. The end of morality is to give personal, human finality to the Universe; to discover the finality that belongs to it — if indeed it has any finality — and to discover it by acting.
Miguel de Unamuno
Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it.
James (author) Stephens
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