I Quotes
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“It is appointed for man once to die, so live well to die well.”
“It is appointed unto every soul to once die, so prepare for the judgement.”
“It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment.- Hebrew 9 :27”
“It is appropriate here to recall that the so-called Dark Ages began with the flight of the individuals into the protection of lords or chapters and came to an end when the individual again found it to his advantage to set forth on his own. We live at a time when everything conspires to push the individual into the fold.”
Source: The Ethics of Redistribution
“It is apt to be so, and it is hard to bear; for, though we do not want trumpets blown, we do like to have out little virtues appreciated, and cannot help feeling disappointed if they are not.”
Source: Eight Cousins
“It is arguable that the success of business propaganda in persuading us, for so long, that we are free from propaganda is one of the most significant propaganda achievements of the twentieth century.”
Source: Taking the Risk Out of Democracy: Corporate Propaganda Versus Freedom and Liberty
“It is arguable that when Humanists, "Shook off," as people say, "the trammels of religion," and discovered things of this world as objects of veneration in their own right... they began to lose the finer appreciation of even the world itself. Thus to the Christian centuries, the flesh was holy (or sacer at least in one sense or the other), and they veiled its awful majesty; to the Humanist centuries it was divine in its own right, and they exhibited it. Now it is the commonplace of the magazine cover. It has lost its numen. So too with the cult of knowledge for its own sake declining from the Revival of Learning to the Brains Trust.”
Source: The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Volume 2: Purgatorio
“It is arguable whether drone attacks, launched by drone pilots against people who have no idea what's coming, are even war at all but something more grotesque; dehumanisation of those targeted because there is no real, human contact between the attacker and victim. Israel and the US instead celebrate these killings by releasing drone footage to the media.”
Source: The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World
“It is arguable whether the human race have been gainers by the march of science beyond the steam engine. Electricity opens a field of infinite conveniences to ever greater numbers, but they may well have to pay dearly for them. But anyhow in my thought I stop short of the internal combustion engine which has made the world so much smaller. Still more must we fear the consequences of entrusting a human race so little different from their predecessors of the so-called barbarous ages such awful agencies as the atomic bomb. Give me the horse.”
Source: If I lived my life again
“It is argued that because they believed thoroughly in a just, moral God they could put their faith there and let the smaller securities take care of themselves. But I think that because they trusted themselves and respected themselves as individuals, because they know beyond doubt that they were valuable and potentially moral units - because of this they could give God their own courage and dignity and then receive it back.”
“It is argued that because they believed thoroughly in a just, moral God they could put there faith there and let the smaller insecurities take care of themselves. But I think that because they trusted themselves and respected themselves as individuals, because they knew beyond doubt that they were valuable and potential moral units- because of this they could give God their own courage and dignity and then receive it back. Such things have disappeared perhaps because men do not trust themselves anymore, and when that happens there is nothing left except perhaps to find some strong sure man, even though he may be wrong, and to dangle from his coat-tails.”
Source: East of Eden
“It is arrogant to believe that you know what is true for you. Surely you know in your own life with you that you cannot be trusted.”
“It is arrogant to pretend to understand everybody, and doing it in order to live with them, or love them-- well. If it depended on understanding, there would not be any communities, or relationships. Worse, if you spend your life waiting to be understood or, something more horrible, waiting for the others to be like you. Well, it is as useless, as always shouting the same word until it means nothing else.”
Source: Commuter
“It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, and I know of no substitute for the force and beauty of it's process.”
“It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.”
“It is art to conceal art. -Ars est celare artem”
“It is art's task to make manifest the contradictions of Being”
Source: Film Form: Essays in Film Theory
“It is art, and art only, that reveals us to ourselves.”
Source: The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde
“It is artadhyan (mournful contemplation that hurts the self) to complain and cry about one’s own misery and it is raudradhyan (wrathful contemplation hurting the self and others) to give misery to others. It is dharmadhyan (auspicious contemplation, giving happiness to others) to stop both of these. The tool that helps stop both of these is dharmadhyan.”
Source: Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization
“It is as a soldier that you make love and as a lover that you make war.”
“It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.”
“It is as absurd to expect members of philosophy departments to be philosophers as it is to expect members of art departments to be artists.”
Source: An Introduction to Political Philosophy: Ten Essays
“It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.”
“It is as acceptable now to love the wives of others as it is to smoke their cigars and read their books.”
“It is as bad as bad can be: it is ill-fed, ill-killed, ill-kept, and ill-drest.”
“It is as bad to clip conscience as to clip coin; it is as bad to give a counterfeit statement as a counterfeit bill.”
“It is as big a mistake to turn down a good shot as it is to take a bad one”
“It is, as calls to arms go, straightforward. Crystal clear. And if you aren’t looking forward to Spurs and Kazan, to Southampton and Bournemouth, if that just doesn’t get you going, wanting to be emotional, unashamedly emotional, optimistic, passionate in a way that outsiders love to mock and our own meek minded souls call 'embarrassing' then you know what? There’s the door. There is the door, and you can walk through it, and both you and us will be happier for that. Because, for ninety minutes every few days, this fella represents Liverpool, eleven lads wearing Red represent Liverpool and we represent Liverpool. Wherever we are on globe, with an even greater responsibility if we are in the stadium.”
“It is as certain as it is strange that truth and error come from one and the same source. Thus it is that we are often not at liberty to do violence to error, because at the same time we do violence to truth.”
Source: Maxims and Reflections
“It is as certain that many opinions, now general, will be rejected by future ages, as it is that many, once general, are rejected by the present.”
Source: The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill
“It is as clear as the sun and as evident as the day that there is no God and that there can be none.”
“It is as commendable to think well of oneself when alone, as it is ridiculous to speak well of oneself among others.”
“It is as common for tastes to change as it is uncommon for traits of character.”
“It is as dangerous for people unaccustomed to handling words and unacquainted with their technique to tinker about with these heavily-charged nuclei of emotional power as it would be for me to burst into a laboratory and play about with a powerful electromagnet or other machine highly charged with electrical force.”
“It is as deadly for a mind to have a system as to have none. Therefore it will have to decide to combine both.”
“It is as difficult for most poor people to truly believe that they could someday escape poverty as it is for most wealthy people to truly believe that their wealth could someday escape them.”
“It is as disastrous to true government in the state, and home, to teach all womankind to submit to the authority of man, as divinely ordained, as it is to teach all mankind to bow down to the authority of kings and Popes, as divinely ordained.”
“It is as easy for most of us to keep from stealing our dinners as it is to digest them, and there is quite as much voluntary morality involved in one process as the other.”
Source: Democracy and Social Ethics
“It is as easy for the imagination to form monsters and to join incongruous shapes and appearances as it is to conceive the most natural and familiar objects.”
Source: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
“It is as easy to count atomies as to resolve the propositions of a lover.”
“It is as easy to create a castle as a button. It's just a matter of whether you're focused on a castle or a button.”
“It is as easy to deceive one's self without perceiving it, as it is difficult to deceive others without their finding out.”
“It is as easy to draw back a stone thrown with force from the hand, as to recall a word once spoken.”
“It is as easy to dream a book as it is hard to write one.”
“It is as easy to find a lover as to keep a friend, but as hard to find a friend as to keep a lover.”
Source: An Itinerant House, and Other Ghost Stories
“It is as easy to give advice to yourself as to others, and as useless.”
“It is as easy to give away a million as a hundred if you have not got either.”
Source: Anne of Ingleside
“It is as easy to manifest one dollar as it is to manifest one million dollars.”
Source: The Secret
“It is as easy to unknowingly deceive yourself as it is to deceive others.”
“It is as expedient that a wicked man be punished as that a sick man be cured by a physician; for all chastisement is a kind of medicine.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study