I Quotes
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“In Our Villages - You killed thousands by thousands, after each thousand, You are killing another one thousand.”
“In our way of working, we attach a great deal of importance to humility and honesty; With respect for human values, we promise to serve our customers with integrity.”
“In our well-policed society we recognize that an illness is serious from the fact that we don't dare speak of it directly.”
Source: Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays
“In our western civilization we have the glorious example, the great standard of perfection and the teachings of the Christ to guide us. He acts for us as Mediator between our personality and our Soul.”
“In our whole life melody the music is broken off here and there by rests, and we foolishly think we have come to the end of time. God sends a time of forced leisure, a time of sickness and disappointed plans, and makes a sudden pause in the hymns of our lives, and we lament that our voice must be silent and our part missing in the music which ever goes up to the ear of our Creator. Not without design does God write the music of our lives. Be it ours to learn the time and not be dismayed at the rests. If we look up, God will beat the time for us.”
“In our wide world there is but one altogether fatal personage, the dunce,--he that speaks irrationally, that sees not, and yet thinks he sees.”
Source: Works
“In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our errors. Childish presumption which justifies the fact that child-nations, inheriting our follies, are now directing our history.”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays
“In our willingness to give that which we seek, we keep the abundance of the universe circulating in our lives.”
“In our willingness to step into the unknown, we surrender ourselves to the creative mind that orchestrates the dance of the universe.”
Source: The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams
“In Our Woods, Sometimes a Rare Music
Every spring
I hear the thrush singing
in the glowing woods
he is only passing through.
His voice is deep,
then he lifts it until it seems
to fall from the sky.
I am thrilled.
I am grateful.
Then, by the end of morning,
he's gone, nothing but silence
out of the tree
where he rested for a night.
And this I find acceptable.
Not enough is a poor life.
But too much is, well, too much.
Imagine Verdi or Mahler
every day, all day.
It would exhaust anyone.”
Source: A Thousand Mornings: Poems
“In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.”
Source: Conversations with Audre Lorde
“In our work titled “On Nature and Against Method, Reflections & Propositions,” in Proposition XXXVII, we stated the following: The ancient Ionian thinkers and natural philosophers who had, in a sense, transformed into the fire of Heraclitus, namely the masters of the Milesian school, the cradle of civilization, await the reemergence of this Ionian vision, which we have described as a kind of reverie, within Blue Anatolia. Science, which is now struggling within a profound darkness of processes and risks coming to a complete standstill in its progress, may yet be revitalized by minds that will once again inherit and internalize the approaches of these Ionian thinkers toward nature. Today more than ever, there is a need for Thales’ water and magnetism, Anaximenes’ breath, Anaximander’s apeiron, Anaxagoras’ ordering mind, and Xenophanes of Colophon’s counter-awareness, his narratives, and his poetic sensibility.
In this spirit, alongside our discourse on contemporary physics and astrophysics, we have undertaken a postulate not previously articulated, one that unifies nuclear strong interactions, neutron star physics, biophysics, and topology under a single framework, where a topology-centered new geometry prevails rather than the conventional hierarchy of physical forces. Just as the masters of the Ionian tradition, Empedocles and Anaximander, conveyed their insights through a poetic feast in their works On Nature, we too have woven these ideas into the fabric of nature through our poems. In doing so, we have prioritized form over meter. This form, inseparable from consciousness, existence, and knowledge belonging to this new geometry, establishes a new morphology, acting as a boundary condition that shelters our words, preventing them from being dispersed within the labyrinths of the cosmos.
In the philosophical walks by the lakeside, frequently contemplated by Gödel and Einstein, and placed, in Paul Benacerraf’s terms, upon paired circles that avoid reducing our postulate to either of the two axes of philosophy, ontology and epistemology, we instead enable a holistic interaction between them. While incomplete encounters within mathematical and geometric solution spaces find completion in Hilbert space, transcendent reflections on nature and our challenges to method form the essence of this work.
In this context, rather than a conventional poetry book or a mere collection of arbitrary texts, what emerges is a meta-text: a systematic inquiry into nature in which intuition and science are interwoven, expressed through poetic form. Moving beyond contemporary literary tendencies that often confine poetry within blocks of prose or reduce it to brief expressions relegated to journal margins, we have tested poetry as not a decorative element but as a constitutive principle of existence.
These transitions, imbued with reason and transcendence between layers of perception, have brought us one step closer to the harmony of poetic expression and, ultimately, to mathematics and geometry, the language of the universe itself. May this work serve as a guiding cosmological atlas for an intellect that seeks both truth and itself across interwoven meta-texts, in its comprehension of the infinite nature of reality.”
Source: Pumpkin Dessert with Tahini in the Cloud Chamber - Without Walnuts & Neutrinoless: Science & Poetry, Volume IV
“In our work, we are always between Scylla and Charybdis; we may fail to abstract enough, and miss important physics, or we may abstract too much and end up with fictitious objects in our models turning into real monsters that devour us.”
Source: Murray Gell-Mann: Selected Papers
“In our world no one ever knows what to do, and everyone's just as clueless and full of crap as everyone else, and you have to figure it all out by yourself. And even after you've figured it out and done it, you'll never know whether you were right or wrong. You'll never know if you put the ring in the right volcano, or if things might have gone better if you hadn't.”
Source: The Magicians Trilogy
“In our world of big names, curiously, our true heroes tend to be anonymous. In this life of illusion and quasi-illusion, the person of solid virtues who can be admired for something more substantial than his well-knownness often proves to be the unsung hero: the teacher, the nurse, the mother, the honest cop, the hard worker at lonely, underpaid, unglamorous, unpublicized jobs.”
Source: The Image or What Happened to the American Dream
“In our world of rampant individualisation, relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is no telling when one turns into the other.”
Source: The contemporary Bauman
“In our world of sleek flesh and collagen, botox and liposuction, what we most fear is the dissolution of the body-mind, the death of the brain.”
“In our world today ‘user-error’ seems to turn into ‘user-habit’ with the user in the habit of denying both.”
“In our world we sleep and eat the image and pray to it and wear it too.”
Source: Mao II
“In our world, 80 to 90 percent of women's weight gain comes from overindulging in insulin-stimulating food. And it's not hardcore, straight-up, I-can-see you-in-the-face sugar. They're eating whole-wheat bread. They're eating ancient grains. They're eating black beans. That stuff is horrible.”
“In our world, all puns are beautiful and they are the highest form of comedy.”
“In our world, I rank music somewhere between hair ribbons and rainbows in terms of usefulness.”
Source: The Hunger Games
“In our world, in our pre-World War III condition, meditation is considered a cult activity and people who practice self-discovery are actually persecuted and ridiculed.”
“In our world, in which religious images are losing their meaning, in which our customs are getting more and more secular, we are losing our sense of the eternal. I think it's a loss that has done a great deal of damage to modern art. Painting is a return to origins.”
“In our world, it's a big deal when you have a favourite collaborator and share them.”
“In our world, love, sex, music, and dance are all integrated into one experience. Love, and the arts of music and dance go together.”
“In our world, that's the way you live your grown-up life: you must constantly rebuild your identity as an adult, the way it's been put together it is wobbly, ephemeral, and fragile, it cloaks despair and, when you're alone in front of the mirror, it tells you the lies you need to believe.”
“In our world, these harmful micro-organisms and an endless list of toxic chemicals consistently assault our immune system. Coupled with these assaults are the daily stresses of life and their deleterious effects upon us.”
“In our world, we have so many ways we can escape with technology, like TV, Facebook, computers, text messaging and all that.”
“In our world, where hundreds of things distract us from God, we have to intentionally and consistently remind ourselves of Him.”
Source: The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply
“In our world," said Eustace, "a star is a huge ball of flaming gas." Even in your world, my son, that is not what a star is, but only what it is made of.”
Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
“In our worldly perceptions of Jesus, we tend to embrace the kindness of his love ('be encouraged') but not the discipline of his love ('and sin no more'). But with the whole scope of his love, or maturity in Christ, we begin relying on him for guidance where we would prefer him to walk beside us rather than behind us.”
Source: Killosophy
“In our worship of certainty we must distinguish between the sound certainty and the sham, between what is gold and what is tinsel; and then, when certainty is attained, we must remember that it is not the only good; that we can buy it at too high a price; that there is danger in perpetual quiescence as well as in perpetual motion; and that a compromise must be found in a principle of growth.”
“In our young days, when Modigliani and I first came to Paris, in 1906, nobody was very clear about ideas. But unconsciously, we knew quite a lot of things, of which we became aware later on.”
“In our young minds houses belonged to women were their special domain, not as property, but as places where all that truly mattered in life took place - the warmth and comfort of shelter, the feeding of our bodies, the nurturing of our souls. There we learned dignity, integrity of being; there we learned to have faith. The folks who made this life possible, who were our primary guides and teachers, were black women.”
Source: Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics
“In our younger years, we fabricated an endless stream of hopes and desires. Do you continue to do so?”
“In ourselves our safety must be sought. By our own right hand it must be wrought.”
Source: The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth
“In ourselves we harbor the intuition of another evolution, of other possibilities of life.”
“In ourselves, rather than in material nature, lie the true source and life of the beautiful. The human soul is the sun which diffuses light on every side, investing creation with its lovely hues, and calling forth the poetic element that lies hidden in every existing thing.”
“In ourselves, we are sinners, and yet through faith we are righteous by the imputation of God. For we trust him who promises to deliver us, and in the meantime struggle so that sin may not overwhelm us, but that we may stand up to it until he finally take it away from us.”
“In ourselvesIn our own honest hearts and chainless handsWill be our safeguard”
“In outstanding classrooms, teachers do more listening than talking, and students do more talking than listening. Terrific teachers often have teeth marks on their tongues.”
“In over 160 years of recorded baseball history, no team had ever won a championship this way.”
“In overcoming prejudice, working together is even more effective than talking together.”
Source: The Unemployed Carpenter
“In overlooking, denying, evading this complexity--which is nothing more than the disquieting complexity of ourselves--we are diminished and we perish; only within this web of ambiguity, paradox, this hunger, danger, darkness, can we find at once ourselves and the power that will free us from ourselves. It is this power of revelation that is the business of the novelist, this journey toward a more vast reality which must take precedence over other claims.”
“In overstepping our limitations, in touching the extreme boundaries of man's world, we have come to know something of its true splendor.”
Source: Annapurna: The First Conquest of an 8,000-Meter Peak
“In Oxford before the war, I had, with this interest in mind, written a short textbook entitled, An Introduction to Economic Analysis and Policy. It was now my intention to rewrite this work.”
“In paganism light is mixed with darkness, and religion and truth are blended with superstition and error.”
“In pageants, you are evaluated from head to toe and its obviously all about looks, and as vain as that is, they can also bring you lots of opportunities to do amazing things.”
“In pain a new time is born.”