I Quotes
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“In philosophy seminars, the choice is usually between good and evil. In the real world, however, the choice is often between a bad guy and a worse guy.”
“In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line.”
Source: Story of Philosophy
“In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.”
Source: 1984
“In Philosophy, the contemplations of man do either penetrate unto God, or are circumferred to Nature, or are reflected and reverted upon himself. Out of which several inquiries there do arise three knowledges, Divine Philosophy, Natural Philosophy, and Human Philosophy or Humanity. For all things are marked and stamped with this triple character of the power of God, the difference of Nature and the use of Man.”
Source: Philosophical works
“In philosophy, the principles are more interesting than the examples. In literature, the examples are more interesting than the principles.”
“In philosophy, when we make use of false principles, we depart the farther from the knowledge of truth and wisdom exactly in proportion to the care with which we cultivate them, and apply ourselves to the deduction of diverse consequences from them, thinking that we are philosophizing well, while we are only departing the farther from the truth; from which it must be inferred that they who have learned the least of all that has been hitherto distinguished by the name of philosophy are the most fitted for the apprehension of truth.”
“In philosophy, you have to reckon with the implicit level of an accumulated reserve, and thus with a very great number of relays, with the shared responsibility of these relays.”
“In photo shoots, I rely on instinct. Which is not to say I don't bring ideas to a project or consider it beforehand.”
“In photographing dwarfs, you don't get majesty & beauty. You get dwarfs.”
“In photographs of us together, she is always looking at the camera, and I am always looking at her.”
Source: The Sky Is Everywhere
“in photography and as in life, it is the strong contrasts between dualities that make things interesting and beautiful...particularly speaking, darkness has to exist and be present in order for light to glow, and have meaning and purpose”
Source: Bodhi Smith Impressionist Photography
“In photography one should surely proceed from essence of the object and attempt to represent it with photographic terms alone.”
“In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated.”
“In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.”
Source: Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum
“In photography we must learn to seek, not the 'picture,' not the aesthetic of tradition, but the ideal instrument of expression, the self-sufficient vehicle for education.”
Source: Moholy-Nagy, photographs and photograms
“In photography we possess an extraordinary instrument for reproduction. But photography is much more than that. Today it is [a method for bringing optically] some thing entirely new into the world.”
“In photography, the issue of the integration of form and content is exceptionally difficult because of the widely held belief that photographs must be a kind of vicarious experience of the subject itself.”
Source: Inside the Photograph: Writings on Twentieth-century Photography
“In photography, you always have both the medium and the depicted subject at the same time.”
“In photos, I don't know who the real me is - it's all pretend, just pretend. There's not much of myself in my work. If I'm looking in the mirror and I'm working, I'm looking at my make-up and my hair. It's not the same as looking at myself.”
“In phrases as brief as a breath worldly wisdom concentrates.”
Source: Quotology
“In Physic, things of melancholic hue and quality are used against melancholy, sour against sour, salt to remove salt humors.”
“In physical intimacy, you remove just clothes and facades. In spiritual intimacy, you remove yourself. The latter is possible only in a love affair with the universe, who is sometimes rough but mostly a gentle lover.”
“In physical science a first essential step in the direction of learning any subject is to find principles of numerical reckoning and practicable methods for measuring some quality connected with it. I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely in your thoughts advanced to the stage of science, whatever the matter may be.”
“In Physicia Baal is still worshiped as Bolus, and as Belly he is adored and served with abundant sacrifice by the priests of Guttledom.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary
“In physics, force is the sum of magnitude multiplied by direction. So is yours.”
“In physics the truth is rarely perfectly clear, and that is certainly universally the case in human affairs. Hence, what is not surrounded by uncertainty cannot be the truth.”
Source: The Quotable Feynman
“In physics there's the old law for every action there's a equal amount of reaction. Sometimes that's true in politics. If somebody's out there making nonsensical statements, but wielding power behind them a lot of people say, "Well, I need to react to that." Another reason for the increased prominence of the climate-change issue is the Paris Agreement itself. It's not a small thing when just about every nation in the entire world comes together and makes an historic agreement like this. It's a big deal. And the old cliché "The train is leaving the station" kind of applies.”
“In physics we deal with states of affairs much simpler than those of psychology and yet we again and again learn that our task is not to investigate the essence of things-we do not at all know what this would mean&mash;but to develop those concepts that allow us to speak with each other about the events of nature in a fruitful manner.”
“In physics, one of the most exciting areas is in nanotech. With computers exhausting the power of silicon, Silicon Valley could become a Rust Belt, unless we can find replacements, such as quantum computers and molecular computers. To be a leader in any field, one has to have a great imagination. Sure, we have to know the basics and fundamentals. But beyond that, we have to let our imagination soar.”
“In physics, opinions don't matter, only demonstrated experiments. The day the fellow succeeds, if ever, he won't need anybody else's opinion.”
“In physics, to be in two places at the same time would be a miracle; in politics it seems not merely normal, but natural.”
“In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you.”
“In physics, your solution should convince a reasonable person. In math, you have to convince a person who's trying to make trouble. Ultimately, in physics, you're hoping to convince Nature. And I've found Nature to be pretty reasonable.”
Source: Fantastic Realities: 49 Mind Journeys and a Trip to Stockholm
“In physiology, as in all other sciences, no discovery is useless, no curiosity misplaced or too ambitious, and we may be certain that every advance achieved in the quest of pure knowledge will sooner or later play its part in the service of man.”
Source: Starling on the Heart: Facsimile Reprints, Including the Linacre Lecture on the Law of the Heart
“In piano, if you try to force hitting this key and that key, it's very broken. It's not pretty. When you're in archery, you can't try to force it step-by-step-by-step. Then the shot doesn't flow and it's not a good shot. If you just let the performance flow, it's really beautiful.”
“In picking up the lifetime partner for your life, go slowly, be careful, and do prayerfully”
“In pickleball, you're supposed to stay out of the kitchen. I guess it's not a sport for women.”
Source: Eggs, they’re not just for breakfast
“In picture-making the writer is the most important cog in the wheel.”
“In Pierre Trudeau, Canada has finally produced a Prime Minister worthy of assassination.”
“In Pioche, Nevade [while in hiding], in April 1871, he [Philip Klingonsmith] made his affidavit regarding the massacre, the first of all who had participated to break openly the pact of silence. After acting as a witness in the first trial of Lee, he returned to Nevada... he was found dead in a prospector's hole in the state of Sonora, Mexico, apparently murdered, the inference being that he had been pursued by avenging members of the Mormons and had been killed for being a traitor...”
Source: The Mountain Meadows Massacre
“In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, Ere one to one was cursedly confin'd: When Nature prompted, and no Law deni'd Promiscuous use of concubine and bride; Then, Israel's monarch, after Heaven's own heart, His vigorous warmth did variously impart To wives and slaves: and, wide as his command, Scatter'd his Maker's image through the land.”
“In pitch dark
I go walking in your landscape
Broken branches
Trip me as I speak
Just 'cause you feel it
Doesn't mean it's there...
We are accidents waiting
Waiting to happen.”
“In pity
and
trembling
old age now
covers my flesh.
Yet there is chasing and floating
after a young woman.
Pick up your lyre
and sing to us
of one with roses
on her robe, especially
wandering”
“In Pizza Express you can get garlic bread with cheese and tomato. Now correct me if I'm wrong, but that's a pizza.”
“In plaats van naar de kerk te gaan (hun denken was niet verduisterd door de gedachte dat de kerk bestond uit gebouwen en organisatorische structuren) kwamen ze bijen als zijnde de kerk om gemeenschap te hebben in Zijn Tegenwoordigheid”
Source: The Healing Presence: Curing the Soul Through Union with Christ
“In plaats van verder schrijven aan een roman, een dagboek beginnen om steeds met denkbeeldige praters over je eigen boeken van gedachten te wisselen, doordat je nooit iemand ontmoet met wie je er in werkelijkheid over praten kunt.”
Source: Dinky toys
“In place of a firing squad, I stare down the barrels of endless interrogation.
Why did she not run away?
Why did she not use the opportunities she had for escape?
Why did she stay if, indeed, the conditions were as bad as she claims?
How much of this wasn't really consensual?
Let me tell you a story. Not mine, this time around.
It is the story of a girl we call after the place of her birth, lacking the integrity to even utter her name. The Suranelli Girl.
Forty-two men rape this girl, over a period of forty days.
She is sixteen years old.
The police do not investigate her case. The high court questions her character. The highest court in the land asks the inevitable. Why did she not run away? Why did she not have the opportunities she had for escape? Why did she say, if need, the conditions were as bad as she claims? How much of this wasn't really consensual?
Sometimes the shame is not the beatings, not the rape. The shaming is in being asked to stand for judgement.”
Source: When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife
“In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.”
Source: A Susan Sontag reader
“In place of a process that 'others' distressed people, we can look for ways to 'belong' them. For sure they do belong, and the belonging begins on a vast scale. As a regular human being, having inherited protections that kept every one of their ancestors alive at least long enough to start a family, the patient can consider themselves well equipped to handle, in their own time and in their own way, whatever lies ahead. They possess a genius for survival that has accumulated over countless generations; in this real sense, all of their fore -fathers and mothers- are on their side.”
Source: Evolutionary Psychiatry: Current Perspectives on Evolution and Mental Health
“In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.”
Source: The decline of the West