I Quotes
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“If one defends the bourgeois, philistine virtues, one does not defend them merely from the demonism or bohemianism of the artist but from the present bourgeoisie itself.”
“If one defines the term 'dropout' to mean a person who has given up serious effort to meet his responsibilities, then every business office, government agency, golf club and university faculty would yield its quota.”
Source: The Recovery of Confidence
“If one denies that, when the meaning is true, then the meant is what is so, one rejects propositional truth. If the rejection is universal, then it is the self-destructive proposition that there are no true propositions. If the rejection is limited to the dogmas, then it is just a roundabout way of saying that all the dogmas are false.”
Source: A Second Collection
“If one departs from the bliss of the Eternal, he will come across the happiness that is obtained from the temporary.”
“If one desires to receive one must first give. This is called profound understanding.”
“If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.”
“If one develops good habits and routines, it is possible to be a responsible educator most of the time; and to marshal the special energies and reflection for those times, when the correct course of action is not clear, or when one is weighing one wrong against another wrong.”
“If one did not have at least a little luck, one would never survive childhood. But luck can be spent, like money; and lost, like a memory; and wasted, like a life.”
Source: The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
“If one didn't let oneself swallow some few lies, I don't know how one would ever carry the past.”
Source: The Death Of The Heart
“If one didn't have love, was it better, then, to be alone?”
“If one dies thinking of people, they will live on through people.”
Source: Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables
“If one discards the Bible as being unreliable, then he must discard almost all literature of antiquity.”
“If one does all these things to a human being, what is left is no longer precisely a human being. It is a man plus large elements of hardware.
The man has become a cybernetic organism: a cyborg.”
“If one does not act, one cannot understand.”
“If one does not attach himself to people and desires, never shall his heart be broken. But then, does he ever truly live?”
“If one does not develop, one goes down. In life, in ordinary conditions everything goes down, or one capacity may develop at the expense of another.”
Source: The Fourth Way: An Arrangement by Subject of Verbatim Extracts from the Records of Ouspensky's Meetings in London and New York, 1921-46
“If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.”
“If one does not have the basic conscientious capacity to refute the primitive textual verses of the scriptures that demand one to kill or torture another being for holding a different belief system than one's own, then that entity is no being of the civilized human society, it is merely a pest from the stone-age.”
“If one does not know how to read the account (karmic) book, then he will start to have doubts, and doubts lead to unhappiness.”
Source: Life Without Conflict
“If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable.”
“If one does not legally become president; then legally are they a president? ...or is the office actually unoccupied?”
Source: Random Molecular Mirroring
“If one does not like the crime, cruelty, injustice and violence of this society, he CAN do something about it.”
“If one does not make an ego out of gender, one would still know whether one is a man or a woman, gay, straight, bisexual, transgender—whatever else we may think of. But those identities need to fit very loosely and be worn very lightly. All sense of privilege or deprivation that has developed around one’s gender identity, all rigidity regarding proper roles and behaviors for the various genders, must be cut through.”
“If one does not make human knowledge wholly dependent upon the original self-knowledge and consequent revelation of God to man, then man will have to seek knowledge within himself as the final reference point. Then he will have to seek an exhaustive understanding of reality. He will have to hold that if he cannot attain to such an exhaustive understanding of reality he has no true knowledge of anything at all. Either man must then know everything or he knows nothing. This is the dilemma that confronts every form of non-Christian epistemology”
“If one does not practice nonviolence in one's own personal relations with others and hopes to use it in bigger affairs, one is vastly mistaken.”
“If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing.”
Source: The Portable Voltaire
“If one does not remember death, one does not remember Dharma.”
“If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.”
Source: Mysterium coniunctionis
“If one does not understand the usefulness of the useless and the uselessness of the useful, one cannot understand art.”
“If one does not use the mind to its fullest, then good feelings fulfill just a fraction of the potential we possess.”
“If one does not wish bonds broken, one should make them elastic and thereby strengthen them.”
“If one doesn't know one's own country, one doesn't have standards for foreign countries.”
“If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others.”
Source: Ayn Rand Novel Collection
“If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened. It is simply expression that gives reality to things.”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)
“If one doesn't value logic, what logical argument would you invoke to prove they should value logic?”
“If one door closes and another does not open, try climbing thru a window, either way, make your way in.”
“If one door closes, another opens. As far as you're growing and updating yourself, the world craves to have a piece of you.”
“If one door is closed, find another open door.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“If one doth act in friendly wise, With no evil thought toward any single creature, And in so doing becometh proper, And if he have compassion in his soul Toward all living beings--this noble one Doth acquire abundant Virtue.”
“If one draws things in a manner which provides only the barest clue to their meaning, the viewer is forced to fill in the gaps by using his own imagination. He is compelled to participate in the creative act, which I consider very important.”
Source: Conversations with Antoni Tàpies: With an Introduction to the Artist's Work
“If one dream dies, dream another dream. If you get knocked down, get back up and go again.”
“If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces... never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again. That's the beauty of being alive... We can always start all over again. Enjoy God's amazing opportunities bestowed on us. Have faith in Him always.”
“If one drops dead in the street, friends and loved ones are shocked, stricken, but a long lingering death loses all nobility and drama, while relatives and friends await the inevitable end in a succession of weary anti-climaxes.”
“If one evil thought, if one evil word, if one evil action, deserves eternal damnation, how many hells, my friends, do every one of us deserve, whose whole lives have been one continued rebellion against God!”
Source: Selected Sermons of George Whitefield: With an Introduction and Notes by the Rev. A.R. Buckland ...
“If one examines the American idea of freedom, the individual, free enterprise, their Constitution, their political and economic structures as well as their mode of exploiting their natural resources, all these are shrouded in the idea of justice.”
“If one extends knowledge to the utmost, one will have wisdom. Having wisdom, one can then make choices.”
“If one fails to develop goals that give meaning to one’s existence, if one does not use the mind to it’s fullest, then good feelings fulfill just a fraction of the potential we possess. True happiness involves the pursuit of worthy goals. Without dreams, without risks, only a trivial semblance of living can be achieved.”
Source: Thrive: Finding Happiness the Blue Zones Way
“If one fears men much he will never do anything great for God: all that one does for God arouses persecution.”
“If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it.”
Source: The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886: With a Memoir by His Sister-in-law, J. Van Gogh-Bonger ...
“If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it. I think that I see something deeper, more infinite, more eternal than the ocean in the expression of the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the morning and coos or laughs because it sees the sun shining on its cradle.”
Source: The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886: With a Memoir by His Sister-in-law, J. Van Gogh-Bonger ...