I Quotes
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“It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.”
“It is by virtue of the atonement that God can maintain His justice and yet demonstrate His mercy.”
“It is by vivacity and wit that man shines in company; but trite jokes and loud laughter reduce him to a buffoon.”
“It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men.”
“It is by work that man carves his way to that measure of power which will fit him for his destiny.”
Source: PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS
“It is by your own that you have to learn a lesson and they by themselves so that they will blame you not.”
“It is called as ‘discharge’ (karma) when one has to do it compulsorily and against his wishes.”
“It is called education because it is learned. You do not have to have had an experience in order to sympathize or empathize with the subject. That is why books are written: so that we do not have to do the same things. We learn from experience, true; but we also learn from empathy.” A Theory of Patience”
Source: Racism 101
“It is called enlightenment, nirvana, God, truth, call it what you will. There is no activity other than the eternal activities of the universe, perfect being, the awareness of all suchness, knowledge.”
“It is called equanimity when one has no attachment with the good (the auspicious) and no abhorrence for the bad (the inauspicious). The one without duality is in equanimity-state. In worldly interactions, people identify tolerance as equanimity!”
“It is called in our schools 'beastliness', and this is about the best name for it... should it become a habit it quickly destroys both health and spirits; he becomes feeble in body and mind, and often ends in a lunatic asylum.”
“It is called Purusharth (real spiritual effort) if it certainly becomes fruitful!”
Source: The Science Of Karma
“It is called the First Amendment. ...Simple words marching in seried ranks. Compact, concise. To the point. Clear and pure. It's freedom's music.”
“It is called the real presence, not in an exclusive sense, as though other forms of presence were not real, but by reason of its excellence. It is the substantial presence by which Christ is made present without doubt, whole and entire, God and man.”
“It is called understanding when one accepts other’s talks of wisdom; but, where is the wisdom filled talk in this era?”
“It is called working your ass off. The difference is what you are willing to sacrifice. For every writer who wants balance in their life, there is a guy like me who gives up a lot to make their dreams come true. There is always going to be someone out there that knows they have to compensate for maybe having less talent with harder work and preparation.”
“It is capitalism, not Marxism, that trades in futures.”
“It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman.”
Source: Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays
“It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.”
Source: Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays
“It is captivating, isn't it? England has such a great scene of electronic music, and I think that was very prominent in Pusher, and the nightlife was the beat of the film. I feel what is really great about Pusher is that it wasn't about drugs and guns and strippers. That was just all circumstantial. I felt like it was really about people and how decisions and circumstances can change relationships. Something just happens. Everything changes for a reason.”
“It is celebration time. It is Thanksgiving time. Meet up with those who make an impact in your life and appreciate them one by one.”
Source: The Gift of Thanksgiving
“It is central to Christian living that we should celebrate the goodness of creation, ponder its present brokenness, and, insofar as we can, celebrate in advance the healing of the world, the new creation itself. Art, music, literature, dance, theater, and many other expressions of human delight and wisdom, can all be explored in new ways.”
“It is certainly fortunate for us that the numbers (of quarks and antiquarks) are unequal because, if they had been the same, nearly all the quarks and antiquarks would have annihilated each other in the early universe and left a universe filled with radiation but hardly any matter. There would then have been no galaxies, stars, or planets on which human life could have developed.”
Source: A Brief History of Time
“It is certain because it is impossible. -Certum est quia impossibile”
“It is certain because it is possible.”
“It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof”
“It is certain that an atom of goodness on the path of faith is never lost.”
“It is certain that at certain times talent entirely overcomes thought or poetry.”
“It is certain that despotism ruins individuals by preventing them from producing wealth much more than by depriving them of what they have already produced; it dries up the source of riches, while it usually respects acquired property. Freedom, on the contrary, produces far more goods than it destroys; and the nations which are favored by free institutions invariably find that their resources increase even more rapidly than their taxes.”
“It is certain that either wise bearing or ignorant carriage is caught as men take diseases, one of another.”
Source: King Henry IV Part 2: Third Series
“It is certain that every class is interested in [educational] establishments which give to the human mind its highest improvements, and to every Country its truest and most durable celebrity.”
Source: Selected Writings of James Madison
“It is certain that if there is someone to hurt you on one side, there is also someone to help you on the other side. Just as you cannot see the one that hurts you, you also cannot see the one that helps you. If the one that hurts you cannot last more than four or five years, neither will the one that helps you.”
“It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion.”
Source: Ultramontanism: Or, The Roman Church and Modern Society
“It is certain that man never achieves a clear knowledge of himself unless he has first looked upon God's face, and then descends from contemplating him to scrutinize himself.”
Source: Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion
“It is certain that many intellectuals envy the higher income of prosperous businessmen and that these feelings drive them toward socialism. They believe that the authorities of a socialist commonwealth would pay them higher salaries than those that they earn under capitalism.”
Source: Human action: a treatise on economics
“It is certain that memory contains not only philosophy, but all the arts and all that appertain to the use of life.”
“It is certain that most who concentrate upon achievement miss life.”
“It is certain that not one drop of rain falls without God's sure command.”
“It is certain that satirical poems were common at Rome from a very early period. The rustics, who lived at a distance from the seat of government, and took little part in the strife of factions, gave vent to their petty local animosities in coarse Fescennine verse.”
“It is certain that stealing nourishes courage, strength, skill, tact, in a word, all the virtues useful to a republican system and consequently to our own. Lay partiality aside, and answer me: is theft, whose effect is to distribute wealth more evenly, to be branded as a wrong in our day, under our government which aims at equality? Plainly, the answer is no.”
“It is certain that success naturally confirms in us a favourable opinion of our own abilities. Scarce any man is willing to allot to accident, friendship, and a thousand causes, which concur in every event without human contrivance or interposition, the part which they may justly claim in his advancement. We rate ourselves by our fortune rather than our virtues, and exorbitant claims are quickly produced by imaginary merit.”
Source: The Rambler: In Four Volumes..
“It is certain that the easy and obvious philosophy will always, with the generality of mankind, have preference above the accurate.”
Source: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: A Critical Edition
“It is certain that the greatest poets, orators, statesmen, and historians, men of the most brilliant and imposing talents, have labored as hard, if not harder, than day laborers; and that the most obvious reason why they have been superior to other men is that they have taken more pains than other men.”
Source: The Optimistic Life
“It is certain that the Jew, if he desired-or if they were driven to it, as the antisemites seem to wish-could now have the ascendancy, nay, literally the supremacy, over Europe; that they are not working or planning for that end is equally sure... The resourcefulness of the modern Jews, both in mind and soul, is extraordinary.”
“It is certain that the love of God does not consist in this sweetness and tenderness which we for the most part desire; but rather in serving Him in justice, fortitude, and humility. His Majesty seeks and loves courageous souls.”
“It is certain that the most natural and human government is that of consent, for that binds freely, ... when men hold their liberty by true obedience to rules of their own making.”
“It is certain that the only hope of retroductive reasoning ever reaching the truth is that there may be some natural tendency toward an agreement between the ideas which suggest themselves to the human mind and those which are concerned in the laws of nature.”
Source: Collected Papers
“It is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since mathematics, in its own way, also performs this function, it is not only aesthetically charming but profoundly significant. It is an art, and a great art.”
“It is certain that the soul is either mortal or immortal. The decision of this question must make a total difference in the principles of morals. Yet philosophers have arranged their moral system entirely independent of this. What an extraordinary blindness!”
Source: Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects
“It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.”