I Quotes
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“In truth, it is no more clear in our time than it was in Marx's how socialism will come about in either developed or undeveloped countries; what is clear is that for humanity to have a decent future, it must come about.”
“In truth, it is the act of amassing such details — and discussing them — that breeds the intimacy, but not between the fan and the fangirl: rather, between the fangirls themselves, who are bound together by their curiosity for this otherwise meaningless knowledge.”
“In truth it matters less what we do... than how we do it and why.”
“In truth it may be laid down as an almost universal rule that good poets are bad critics.”
“In truth, it's all an act, outside of truth the act is real.”
“In truth, it was also by design: as much as I loved my mother, she wasn't often the person I sought for comfort in hard times. She disapproved tacitly of crying.”
Source: The Word Exchange
“In truth, Kipling's politics are not mine. But then, it would be a poor sort of world if one were only able to read authors who expressed points of view that one agreed with entirely. It would be a bland sort of world if we could not spend time with people who thought differently, and who saw the world from a different place.”
Source: The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction
“In truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.”
Source: The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard: Works by France
“In truth, most people are passionate about many different things, and the only way to know what they want to do is to prototype some potential lives, try them out, and see what really resonates with them.”
Source: Designing your Life how to build a well-lived joyful life
“In truth, neither volatility nor change have an inherent valence.”
Source: Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
“In truth, nothing and no one is ever lost. The forms we love change shape, but the life within them remains. When we see that clearly, death — our own or a loved one — becomes a graced opportunity to know that life does not and cannot end.”
Source: Consciousness Rising
“In truth, Qasim was angry at his own people for surrendering so readily to their fate, and he hated them more than he hated the Sayyadin, even with all their tyranny. The people thought of nothing except satisfying their lusts, and they busied themselves with the search for food and drink, never once thinking about their lot in life and changing this terrible world they endured. That’s what made him so angry. Sometimes, he’d ask himself: What drove them to stay alive, breeding and swarming like swamp flies? What strange force made them continue this accursed existence? He never found an answer, but he went on asking as he fumed on the inside, every once in a while letting out angry gusts from his chest.”
Source: ملاذ: مدينة البعث
“In truth search can no more be considered independent of the Web than the Web can work without search. This symbiotic relationship brings forth all sorts of issues because it becomes part of a traditional push and pull where the Web, represented by those who actively work in it, wants to push all the wrong things, while search wants to pull in everything.”
Source: Google Semantic Search: Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Techniques That Get Your Company More Traffic
“In truth, she disliked books. She felt a peculiar disquiet when opening the pages. She had felt it since childhood. She did not know why. Something in the act itself, the immersion, the seclusion, was disturbing. Reading was an affirmation of being alone, of being separate, trapped. Books were like oubliettes. Her preference was for company, the tactile world, atoms.”
Source: The Beautiful Indifference
“In truth, she hadn't put much thought into whether she was happy before. She supposes that since she never thought about it, she must have been happy. People who are happy don't really need to ask themselves if they are happy or not, do they? They just are happy, she thinks.”
Source: Elsewhere
“In truth she is not a hard lady naturally, and the time has been when the sight of the venerable figure suing to her with such strong earnestness would have moved her to great compassion. But so long accustomed to suppress emotion and keep down reality, so long schooled for her own purposes in that destructive school which shuts up the natural feelings of the heart like flies in amber and spreads one uniform and dreary gloss over the good and bad, the feeling and the unfeeling, the sensible and the senseless, she had subdued even her wonder until now.”
Source: Bleak House
“In truth, she wished she would actually find something dear with that place and its people—
—but in the end, her wish to destroy them all with her own hands remained the same.”
Source: 長い夜の国と最後の舞踏会 1 ～ひとりぼっちの公爵令嬢と真夜中の精霊～
“In truth, some demons were once people who did bad things even though they knew better. In truth, people were demons when they didn't know any better. The girl had learned that it hardly mattered in the end,”
Source: Dead Astronauts
“In truth, the best works of art are by no means the most perfect ones, but rather those whose imperfection bears the most profound witness to their fundamental contradictions. That is why those works, whose success takes its measure from the failure of the world, assume something helpless, frail and disorganized under the gaze of contemporary cultural administration.”
Source: Towards a Theory of Musical Reproduction: Notes, a Draft and Two Schemata
“In truth the Church is too unique to prove herself unique. For most popular and easy proof is by parallel; and here there is no parallel.”
“In truth, the crossing from nature to culture and vice versa has always stood wide open. It leads across an easily accessible bridge: the practising life. People have committed themselves to its construction since they came into existence - or rather, people only came into existence by applying themselves to the building of said bridge. The human being is the pontifical creature that, from its earliest evolutionary stages, has created tradition-compatible connections between the bridgeheads in the bodily realm and those in cultural programes. From the start, nature and culture are linked by a broad middle ground of embodied practices - containing languages, rituals and technical skills, in so far as these factors constitute the universal forms of automatized artificialities. This intermediate zone forms a morphologically rich, variable and stable region that can, for the time being, be referred to sufficiently clearly with such conventional categories as education, etiquette, custom, habit formation, training and exercise - without needing to wait for the purveyors of the 'human sciences', who, with all their bluster about culture, create the confusion for whose resolution they subsequently offer their services.”
Source: Du mußt dein Leben ändern
“In truth, the epoch is gone in which we had the impression that the masses of society could be guided by reason and by insights into their situation of life to achieve social improvement with their own strength. In truth, the days are gone in which the masses have a function in shaping society. It has been shown that the masses can be completely molded, that they are unconscious and capable of adapting themselves to any kind of power or infamy.”
Source: The Mass Psychology of Fascism
“In truth, the Greek system made me more aware of my Latinidad on a daily basis than ever before. When you're Brown in a predominately white environment, your otherness tends to be mirrored back to you more often than not.”
Source: First Gen: A Memoir
“In truth, the man who would behold aright the glory of God upon earth must in solitude behold that glory.”
Source: The Island of the Fay - an Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
“In truth the most striking figure for the relation of the two is that of the strong blind man carrying the sighted lame man on his shoulders.”
Source: The World as Will and Representation
“In truth the prison, unto which we doom Ourselves, no prison is.”
Source: Poems by William Wordsworth: Including Lyrical Ballads, and the Miscellaneous Pieces of the Author
“In truth the social media elements of the Obama campaign, while extremely innovative, did not produce a lot of results.”
“In truth, there is no such thing as an “intuitive boundary” of a sensory state. That most philosophers take such states as brain-bound is not an intuition, but a prejudice.”
Source: The Peripheral Mind: Philosophy of Mind and the Peripheral Nervous System
“In truth there is only one freedom - the holy freedom of Christ, whereby He freed us from sin, from evil, from the devil. It binds us to God. All other freedoms are illusory, false, that is to say, they are all, in fact, slavery.”
“In truth, there were no tracks of destiny through the chaos of life, only paths forged by decisions.”
Source: Elsewhere
“In truth, there will never be enough power in the presidency for an incumbent to make good on a purely constructive leadership project, and it is unlikely that there will ever be another president stretched so thinly by a determination to use great power to do just that. Lyndon Johnson was a full-service president who had at his disposal an alignment of political resources, economic resources, international resources, and military resources unmatched in the annals of presidential history. The problem is that in a full-service presidency, where no interest of political significance is denied a modicum of legitimacy, resources turn fickle; the exercise of power consumes authority. Committed to a wholly affirmative result, Johnson could not rest content to let anyone carry the brunt of change.”
Source: The Politics Presidents Make: Leadership from John Adams to Bill Clinton
“In truth, Thomas was being a faithful disciple of Jesus, who warned His disciples that “many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Messiah!’ and they will lead many astray” (Matt. 24:5). Indeed, Jesus affirms those who believe without seeing because such belief takes great faith. But that in no way suggests we should ignore evidence when it is available, as though doing so makes us more faithful. This impulse, combined with an often uncritical biblicism, not only neglects God’s command to love him with our minds, but leads us into unnecessary divisiveness and shallow literalism that blinds us to the deeper truth of Scripture. Therefore, during this process of self-emptying, we must be aware of and honest with our uncertainties. While we should never throw around our doubt with rebellious defiance, neither should we view our genuine questions and uncertainties as liabilities. Sometimes allowing ourselves to question deeply held beliefs opens us up to discovering that we were, in fact, in error, offering us the opportunity for more faithful understanding. Other times we discover that our fears are unfounded, returning to our former beliefs without doubt, yet stronger for it.”
Source: Vulnerable Faith: Missional Living in the Radical Way of St. Patrick
“In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace.”
“In truth: virtue comes from habit, not just gabbing about goodness.”
Source: How to Think More About Exercise
“In truth we are not separate from each other or from the world, from the whole earth, the sun or moon or billions of stars, not separate from the entire universe. Listening silently in quiet wonderment, without knowing anything, there is just one mysteriously palpitating aliveness.”
Source: The Light of Discovery
“In truth, we are rarely all on the same page. More often than not, they're all on one page, and I' on a completely different one.”
Source: Foolish Hearts
“In truth, we are very poor at perceiving the span of time activities usually take.”
“In truth we gaze but do not see, and hearken but do not hear; we eat and drink but do not taste. And there lies the difference between Jesus of Nazareth and ourselves. His senses were all continually made new, and the world to Him was always a new world.”
Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces
“In truth we have been so preoccupied with the outer aspects of mythology that we have failed to realize that it is the inner, the subjective, dimension of mythology that is the potent healing place in each individual. The journey, once told, is what we take mythology to be. But the myth came forth spontaneously in a human being before it ever became a story told. And it came forth for the purposes of healing and growing that individual; it was a specific, unique, personal experience."
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By developing an open and direct relationship with our deep imagination, we open ourselves to that wisdom that dwells in aliveness itself. The deep imagination carries within itself the potential of all experience. Not just the experience of this short lifetime that we take to be our own, individually, but the experience of that entire path that aliveness has traversed from the very beginning, from the origin of life itself."
- Eligio Stephen Gallegos, PhD, Into Wholeness: The Path of Deep Imagery”
“In truth we know by experience that song has great force and vigour to move and inflame the hearts of men to invoke and praise God with a more vehement and ardent zeal.”
“In truth we need to change the society itself, men as well as women, to change everything.”
“In truth, we were similar. Like two sides of a fan, we were at odds with each other, we competed with each other, but our fates similarly rested in the hands of the Emperor--the holder, the commander, the manipulator of our destinies.”
Source: The Moon in the Palace
“In truth you cannot read too much in Scripture; and what you read you cannot read too carefully, and what you read carefully you cannot understand too well, and what you understand well you cannot teach too well, and what you teach well you cannot live too well.”
Source: What Luther says: an anthology
“In truth you cannot understand the nature of My Reality, either today, or even after a thousand years of steady austerity or ardent inquiry, even if all mankind joins in that effort.”
“In truth you owe naught to any man. You owe to all men.”
Source: The New Frontier and Sand and Foam
“In truth, 2007 was the hardest year of my life. I lost my best friend. I lost my father.”
“In truth, a leader should either apologize, mean it and do something about it - or not apologize at all.”
“In truth, a mature man who uses hair oil, unless medicinally, that man has probably got a quoggy spot in him somewhere.”
Source: Moby-Dick
“In truth, ayahuasca is the television of the forest.”
Source: The Cosmic Serpent
“In truth, Edward Teller ran the Livermore Lab, but for public purposes he liked it better to be known as only an associate director”