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“In every ancient religious and sacred text, faith is a verb; a thing to be demonstrated. It is in modern days that we have diluted faith from an act to a philosophy.”
Source: Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
“In every animal that walks upright, the deficiency of the Fluids that fill the Muscles appears first in the highest Part: The Face first grows lank and wrinkled; then the neck; then the breast and arms; the lower parts continuing to the last as plump as ever; so that covering all above with a basket, and regarding only what is below the girdle, it is impossible of two women to know an old from a young one.”
Source: Autobiography and Other Writings
“In every animal which has not passed the limit of its development, a more frequent and continuous use of any organ gradually strengthens, develops and enlarges that organ, and gives it a power proportional to the length of time it has been so used; while the permanent disuse of any organ imperceptibly weakens and deteriorates it, and progressively diminishes its functional capacity, until it finally disappears.”
“In every area of our lives we get back what we send out”
“In every area of the world where there is earthquake risk, there are still many buildings of this type; it is very frustrating to try to get rid of them.”
“In every area of thought we must rely ultimately on our judgments, tested by reflection, subject to correction by the counterarguments of others, modified by the imagination and by comparison with alternatives. Antirealism is always a conjectural possibility: the question can always be posed, whether there is anything more to truth in a certain domain than our tendency to reach certain conclusions in this way, perhaps in convergence with others. Sometimes, as with grammar or etiquette, the answer is no. For that reason the intuitive conviction that a particular domain, like the physical world, or mathematics, or morality, or aesthetics, is one in which our judgments are attempts to respond to a kind of truth that is independent of them may be impossible to establish decisively. Yet it may be very robust all the same, and not unjustified.
To be sure, there are competing subjectivist explanations of the appearance of mind-independence in the truth of moral and other value judgments. One of the things a sophisticated subjectivism allows us to say when we judge that infanticide is wrong is that it would be wrong even if none of us thought so, even though that second judgment too is still ultimately grounded in our responses. However, I find those quasi-realist, expressivist accounts of the ground of objectivity in moral judgments no more plausible than the subjectivist account of simpler value judgments. These epicycles are of the same kind as the original proposal: they deny that value judgments can be true in their own right, and this does not accord with what I believe to be the best overall understanding of our thought about value.
There is no crucial experiment that will establish or refute realism about value. One ground for rejecting it, the type used by Hume, is simply question-begging: if it is supposed that objective moral truths can exist only if they are like other kinds of facts--physical, psychological, or logical--then it is clear that there aren't any. But the failure of this argument doesn't prove that there are objective moral truths. Positive support for realism can come only from the fruitfulness of evaluative and moral thought in producing results, including corrections of beliefs formerly widely held and the development of new and improved methods and arguments over time. The realist interpretation of what we are doing in thinking about these things can carry conviction only if it is a better account than the subjectivist or social-constructivist alternatives, and that is always going to be a comparative question and a matter of judgment, as it is about any other domain, whether it be mathematics or science or history or aesthetics.”
Source: Mind & Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False
“In every area, we seem to have thrown everything away and embraced reality television. Its nauseating, programme after programme.”
“In every area, working with what you habitually reject is one of the best ways to facilitate growth and transformation.”
“In every art beginners must start with models of those who have practiced the same art before them. And it is not only a matter of looking at the drawings, paintings, musical compositions, and poems that have been and are being created; it is a matter of being drawn into the individual work of art, of realizing that it has been made by a real human being, and trying to discover the secret of its creation.”
Source: Becoming a poet: source, process, practice
“In every Art it is good to have a master.
[In every art it is good to have a master.]”
Source: The works of George Herbert. containing Parentalia, the 2nd copy wanting the 1st sheet of vol.2].
“In every art the desire to practice it precedes both the full ability to do so and the possession of something worthwhile to express by its means.”
Source: O Dreams, O Destinations
“In every art we are always obliged to return to the accepted means of expression, the conventional language of the art. What is a black-and-white drawing but a convention to which the beholder has become so accustomed that with his mind's eye he sees a complete equivalent in the translation from nature?”
“In every art, beginners must start with models of those who have practiced the same art before them.”
Source: Becoming a poet: source, process, practice
“In every artist there is a touch of audacity without which no talent is conceivable.”
“In every artist there is poetry. In every human being there is the poetic element. We know, we feel, we believe.”
“In every artist we can perceive a man with both a message and a method. His message may be innate in him, but his method he has to acquire from others.”
Source: The principles of playmaking: and other discussions of the drama
“In every artistic activity a new world is created, the cosmos, a world enlightened and free.”
“In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize the other part.”
Source: Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
“In every aspect and among almost every demographic, how American society digested and processed the long, dark chapter between the end of the Civil War and the beginning of the civil rights movement has been delusion.”
Source: Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
“In every aspect of life, be true to who you are. There is no need to communicate subliminally. If you believe in your words or actions, then express yourself completely. Live, Laugh, & Love without regrets.”
Source: Sweet Destiny
“In every aspect of life, have a game plan, and then do your best to achieve it.”
“In every aspect of life, including the economic dimension, we are always challenged to do the right thing. In many cases in the market system, which allows a great deal of latitude for human choice, people can get carried away to excess.”
“In every aspect of life, purity and holiness, cleanliness and refinement, exalt the human condition . . . Even in the physical realm, cleanliness will conduce to spirituality.”
“In every aspect of my life, I tend to look for the deeper side.”
“In every aspect of our lives, we are always asking ourselves, How am I of value? What is my worth? Yet I believe that worthiness is our birthright.”
“In every aspect of society, including business and anywhere that creativity can be used, we can be - or we used to be, anyway - the most innovative country, because we weren't restricted by artificial limitations. We are made to be wild, free, and creative, and this clearly was a symbol of that kind of energy in America.”
“In every aspect of the day Jesus was aware of the Father. He beheld Him in the clouds and in the shadows of the clouds that pass over the earth.”
Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces
“In every aspect of the religious life, American faith has met American culture--and American culture has triumphed.”
Source: The Transformation of American Religion: How We Actually Live Our Faith
“In every attempt there are many obstacles to cope with, but gradually the path becomes smooth.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“In every attempt there will be one set of men who will applaud, and another who will pick holes. Go on doing your own work, what need have you to reply to any party?”
Source: The Complete Works of the Swami Vivekananda, Comprising All His Lectures, Addresses and Discourses Delivered in Europe, America and India: All His Writings in Prose and Poetry, Together with Translations of Those Written in Bengali and Sanskrit; Reports of His Interviews and His Replies to the Various Addresses of Welcome; His Sayings and Epistles,--private and Public--original and Translated; with an Index; Carefully Revised & Edited
“In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.”
Source: Voltaire – The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…: From the French writer, historian and philosopher, famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion and freedom of expression
“In every battle, it is not numbers and untaught bravery so much as skill and training that generally produce the victory. For we see no other explanation of the conquest of the world by the Roman People than their drill-at-arms, camp discipline and military expertise. No one is afraid to do what he is confident of having learned well. A small force which is highly trained in the conflicts of war is more apt to victory; a raw and untrained horde is always exposed to slaughter.”
Source: The Military Institutions of the Romans
“In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.”
“In every bed you will find four persons sleeping together. It is very rare to find a double bed, because then four persons are there overcrowding it. The wife is there and the ego, and the husband is there and the ego - husband is hidden behind his ego, wife is hidden behind her ego, and those two egos go on making love. The real contact never happens.”
“In every big city there is always one surefire laugh, and that lies in hanging some piece of idiocy upon the people of a nearby city or town.”
“In every bio-region, one of the most urgent tasks is to rebuild the community of naturalists - so radically depleted in recent years, as young people have spent less time in nature, and higher education has placed less value on such disciplines as zoology……The times are right for the return of the amateur, twenty-first-century, citizen naturalist. To be a citizen naturalist is to take personal action, to both protect and participate in nature.”
“In every bit of honest writing in the world, there is a base theme. Try to understand men, if you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and nearly always leads to love.”
“In every bite, every sip
I feel unseen hands—
effort, labor, skill,
knowledge, talent, devotion—
woven together
to meet my need
to keep me whole.”
“In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action. I have only to hew away the rough walls that imprison the lovely apparition to reveal it to the other eyes as mine see it.”
“In every book I ever wrote the point was to do as much as you could after coming to terms with your limitations.”
Source: The Adderall Diaries: A Memoir of Moods, Masochism, and Murder (Large Print 16pt)
“In every book I write, I try to name-check the most prominent influences, or the most prominent conscious influences.”
“In every book lies a world. They pass the time waiting to be found by those that seek them.”
“In every branch of knowledge the progress is proportional to the amount of facts on which to build, and therefore to the facility of obtaining data.”
Source: The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell: 1846-1862
“In every bush lies a nest.”
“In every business your customers are the road. Your customers are the life blood of your business. Without your customers you have nowhere to go. In fact, without your life blood, you won't have a life. Without them you are dead.”
Source: The Wheel of Wealth - An Entrepreneur's Action Guide
“In every business, in every industry, management does matter.”
“In every capitalist economy there are anti-capitalist movements, activists, and even political parties; in a way, that there are no longer anti-democratic movements, activists, and parties.”
Source: The Locust and the Bee: Predators and Creators in Capitalism's Future
“In every career, you are balancing or negotiating tricky waters. But, I think that's been something nice that comedy has been able to give me a little bit more. I have the ability to laugh at myself and hopefully not take all of this whole world too seriously.”
“In every case do the opposite to whatever technology does today. Then you will always be on the right track.”
Source: The Energy Evolution – Harnessing Free Energy from Nature: Volume 4 of Renowned Environmentalist Viktor Schauberger’s Eco-Technology Series
“In every case of frenzied investing and herd mentality, investors who participate later in the cycle operate at an elevated and often unnecessary risk.”