I Quotes
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“It is character that should be the sole measure of judgement in the society of thinking humanity, and nothing short of that would do.”
Source: We Are All Black: A Treatise on Racism
“It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.”
“It is characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.”
“It is characteristic of fundamental discoveries, of great achievements of the intellect, that they retain an undiminished power upon the imagination of the thinker. The memorable experiment of Faraday with a disc rotating between two poles of a magnet, which has borne such magnificent fruit, has long passed into every-day experience; yet there are certain features about this embryo of the present dynamos and motors which even today appear to us striking, and are worthy of the most careful study.”
“It is characteristic of ideology to impose self-evident facts as self-evident facts.”
“It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.”
Source: The origin of life
“It is characteristic of spontaneous friendship to take on first, without enquiry and almost at first sight, the unseen doings and unspoken sentiments of our friends; the parts known give us evidence enough that the unknown parts cannot be much amiss.”
Source: Persons and Places: My host the world
“It is characteristic of the barbarian ... to insist upon seeing a thing "as it is." The desire testifies that he has nothing in himself with which to spiritualize it; the relation is one of thing to thing without the intercession of the imagination. Impatient of the veiling with which the man of higher type gives the world imaginative meaning, the barbarian and the Philistine, who is the barbarian living amid culture, demands the access of immediacy. Where the former wishes representation, the latter insists upon starkness of materiality, suspecting rightly that forms will mean restraint.”
“It is characteristic of the emotions of the very young infant that they are of an extreme and powerful nature.”
Source: Envy and Gratitude
“It is characteristic of the military mentality that non-human factors ... are held essential, while the human being, his desires and thoughts-in short, the psychological factors-are considered as unimportant and secondary.”
“It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention, supposing it to be new.”
Source: The Quotable Calvin Coolidge: Sensible Words for a New Century
“It is characteristic of theistic "tolerance" that no one really cares what the people believe in, just so they believe or pretend to believe.”
Source: Mother Earth, a Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Social Science and Literature
“It is characteristic to believe that those in need are given to, that the squeaky hinge is the one that gets the oil, but in the realm of emotions this is not so. It is the person who does not solicit liking and love, admiration and respect, sympathy and empathy to whom they are freely given.”
Source: Advice from a Failure
“It is charged that pornography objectifies women: It converts them into sexual objects. Again, what does this mean? If taken literally, it means nothing at all because objects don't have sexuality; only human beings do. But the charge that pornography portrays women as "sexual beings" would not inspire rage and, so, it has no place in the anti-porn rhetoric.”
Source: XXX: A Woman's Right to Pornography
“It is charming the way everyone in the South says, 'Come back.' This is the regulation farewell at gas stations, soda fountains, general stores, tourist camps. 'Come back,' they call, 'come back.' Do they feel marooned in one place, lost, needing to believe someone will return to share their exile on the similar main streets, in the varied but always new-looking land?”
Source: The View From The Ground
“It is charming to totter into vogue.”
“It is Chastity, my brother. She that has that is clad in complete steel.”
“It is cheap generosity which promises the future in compensation for the present.”
“It is cheaper for an airline to bump passengers off an oversold airplane than it is to sell the correct number of seats for it.”
“It is cheaper to pay mathematicians and computer scientists to design algorithms that will eliminate webspamming, rather than to pay lawyers to do lawsuits.”
“It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.”
“It is cheering to note that [Martin] Luther (1524) did not see why schools should not be fun as well: "Now since the young must leap and jump, or have something to do, because they have a natural desire for it which should not be restrained (for it is not well to check them in everything) why should we not provide for them such schools, and lay before them such studies?”
“It is chiefly in New York that I feel induced to urge this, because New York is, by innumerable ties, connected with Europe - more connected than several parts of Europe itself.”
Source: Select speeches, condensed and abridged by F.W. Newman
“It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.”
Source: Self-culture: An address introductory to the Franklin lectures, delivered at Boston, September, 1838
“It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds; and these invaluable communications are within the reach of all.”
“It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with the superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in reach of all. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. Books are true levellers. They give to all, who faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence of the best and greatest of our race.”
Source: Self-Culture. An address introductory to the Franklin lectures, delivered at Boston. 1838
“It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the intercourse with superior minds.”
“It is chiefly upon the lay citizen, informed about science but not its practitioner, that the country must depend in determining the use to which science is put, in resolving the many public policy questions that scientific discoveries constantly force upon us.”
“It is chiefly, I regret to say, through journalism that such people find expression. I regret it because there is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.”
Source: The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde
“It is childish to assume that science began in Greece; the Greek "miracle" was prepared by millenia of work in Egypt, Mesopotamia and possibly in other regions. Greek science was less an invention than a revival.”
Source: Ancient Science Through the Golden Age of Greece
“It is childish to be surprised by something that you knew exists or is possible.”
“It is childish to eat primarily or only to please your tongue.”
“It is childish to envy someone for something you do not need.”
“It is children only who enjoy the present; their elders either live on the memory of the past or the hope of the future.”
“It is children who are the true realists: they never proceed from generalities. The adult recognizes the general form in a particular example, a representative of the species, dismisses everything else and states: that’s lilac, there’s an ash tree, an apple tree. The child perceives individuals, personalities. He sees the unique form, and doesn’t mask it with a common name or function.”
Source: A Philosophy of Walking
“It is chilling to think that the same people who persecuted the wise women and men of Europe, its midwives and healers, then crossed the oceans to Africa and the Americas and tortured and enslaved, raped, impoverished, and eradicated the peaceful, Christ-like people they found. And that the blueprint from which they worked, and still work, was the Bible.”
Source: Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism
“It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true Word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and with the guidance of good teachers, will bring us to Him.”
“It is Christ's atonement that makes it possible for us to be forgiven of our sins and His resurrection that gives us the assurance of immortality and the life to come. It is that life to come that orients our views in mortality and reinforces our determination to live the laws of God so that we can qualify for His blessings in immortality.”
“It is Christ's manner to trouble our souls first, and then to come with healing in his wings.”
Source: The soul's conflict and victory over itself by faith
“It is Christian culture that has created Western man and the Western way of life.”
Source: Christianity and European Culture (Selections from the Work of Christopher Dawson)
“It is Christianity that began substituting the tragedy of the soul for contemplation of the world. But, at least, Christianity referred to a spiritual nature and thereby preserved a certain fixity. With God dead, there remains only history and power.”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
“It is Christlike to assume that people are trying to do the best they can. I know I am a better person when I cultivate empathy, and I have been blessed for having received it from others. As members of the body of Christ, we are each responsible for creating a space not only of acceptance, but of joy and encouragement for our sisters and brothers and the stories they are working so hard to live well.”
Source: One Hundred Birds Taught Me to Fly: The Art of Seeking God
“It is Christlike work to soothe and sympathize, and only those who have drunk the cup of sorrow are fully equipped to do it.”
“It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you.”
“It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you...yes, it is Christmas every time you smile at your brother and offer him your hand.”
“It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.”
“It is chronic water shortage in the body that causes most diseases of the human body.
Dr. Fereydoon Batmanghelidj”
Source: The Healing Power of Water
“It is chronic water shortage in the body that causes most diseases of the human body.”
“It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad.”
Source: Plutarch's Lives: The Translation Called Dryden's Corrected from the Greek
“It is claimed for satyagraha that it is a complete substitute for violence or war.”
Source: The Essential Writings