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“It is doubtful whether our present system of popular education does not retard independent or self thinking as much as it promotes it. All genuine education is self-education. It will incite the individual to think for himself, by rethinking what the race's great thinkers have already thought for him, thus enabling him to go ahead under his own mental steam.”
Source: The Field of Philosophy: An Outline of Lectures on Introduction to Philosophy
“It is doubtful whether the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power-power to oppress others.”
Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer
“It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy.”
Source: Emerson in His Journals
“It is doubtless impossible to approach any human problems with a mind free from bias.”
Source: The Second Sex
“It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows and has a history.”
Source: On the Art of Poetry
“It is doubtless very desirable, that private persons should have a correct knowledge of their personal interests; but it must be infinitely more so, that governments should possess that knowledge.”
Source: A Treatise on Political Economy; Or, The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth
“It is doubtless wise, when a reform is introduced, to try to persuade the British public that it is not a reform at all; but appearances must be kept up to some extent at least.”
“It is dreadful how I miss you, and everything that everybody says seems flat and stupid.”
“It is dreadful that one cannot tear our the past by the roots. We cannot tear it out but we can hide the memory of it.”
Source: ANNA KARENINA
“It is dreadful the way all the comfortable, happy people stay off to themselves.”
“It is dreadful to see actors reproducing the same image constantly.”
“It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.”
Source: The Woman Destroyed
“It is dreadful when something weighs on your mind, not to have a soul to unburden yourself to. You know what I mean. I tell my piano the things I used to tell you.”
“It is dreadfully tedious to be obliged to listen to poetry, even when it has been composed in one’s honour. But in another– oh, Kit, you won’t understand, but to be three- and- forty, and still be able to attach foolish boys, is such a comfort!”
Source: False Colours
“It is dressed into speeches about patriotism, love of country...but the profits...skyrocket.”
“It is due, however, to my mistress to say of her, that she did not adopt this course of treatment immediately. She at first lacked the depravity indispensable to shutting me up in mental darkness. It was at least necessary for her to have some training in the exercise of irresponsible power, to make her equal to the task of treating me as though I were a brute.
My mistress was, as I have said, a kind and tender-hearted woman; and in the simplicity of her soul she commenced, when I first went to live with her, to treat me as she supposed one human being ought to treat another. In entering upon the duties of a slaveholder, she did not seem to perceive that I sustained to her the relation of a mere chattel, and that for her to treat me as a human being was not only wrong, but dangerously so. Slavery proved as injurious to her as it did to me. When I went there, she was a pious, warm, and tender-hearted woman. There was no sorrow or suffering for which she had not a tear. She had bread for the hungry, clothes for the naked, and comfort for every mourner that came within her reach. Slavery soon proved its ability to divest her of these heavenly qualities. Under its influence, the tender heart became stone, and the lamblike disposition gave way to one of tiger-like fierceness.”
Source: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
“It is due to a collective human aggregation that we are able to create things of deniably and undeniably inherent nature that would have otherwise surfaced in some other medium and probably not as clearly. Creation is the space in which we are woven. The act of creating is a channel from that space.”
Source: Sea Breeze Academy
“It is due to justice; due to humanity; due to truth; due to the sympathies of our nature; in fine, to our character as a people, both abroad and at home, that they should be considered, as much as possible, in the light of human beings, and not as mere property. As such, they are acted on by our laws, and have an interest in our laws. They may be considered as making a part, though a degraded part, of the families to which they belong.”
Source: Selected Writings of James Madison
“It is due to neither impotence nor ignorance on God’s part that evils occur in the world, but it is owing to the order of his wisdom and to the greatness of his goodness, whence come the many and divers grades of goodness in things, many of which would be lacking were he to allow no evil to exist. Thus there would be no good of patience without the evil of persecution, nor the good of the preservation of its life in a lion, without the evil of the destruction of the animals on which it lives.”
“It is due to one’s own mistake that the world continues to be remembered. Whatever keeps coming to memory, that is where the mistakes lie. For a fully enlightened Gnani (One with Knowledge of the Self), the world continues to remain absent from his memory!”
Source: Death: Before, During After...
“It is due to the inspiration from 'vyavasthit' (result of scientific circumstantial evidences) that the pudgal (non-Self complex) becomes the 'doer'. Outwardly, the pudgal appears to be the 'doer', but that is due to the evidence of 'vyavasthit' and in that too, it can happen only if the Soul (Atma) is present.”
Source: Spirituality in Speech
“It is dull enough to confuse the eye in following, pronounced enough to constantly irritate and provoke study, and when you follow the lame uncertain curves for a little distance they suddenly commit suicide—plunge off at outrageous angles, destroy themselves in unheard of contradictions.”
Source: The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Reader
“It is dull, Son of Adam, to drink without eating," said the Queen presently. "What would you like best to eat?"
"Turkish Delight, please, your Majesty," said Edmund.”
“It is during my times of great suffering, of feeling alone and scared, that I find my deepest sense of faith - when I actually feel the presence of something much greater than me, encouraging me to take the next right step.”
Source: Voices of Cancer: What We Really Want, What We Really Need
“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light -Aristotle”
Source: 100 quotes by Aristotle: Great philosophers & their inspiring thoughts
“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.”
“It is during our failures that we discover our true desire for success.”
Source: Let's Do This! 100 Powerful Messages to Help You Take Action
“It is during the most trying times in life that we get to see who our real friends are.”
“It is during these moments that we must remember the impermanence of time.”
“It is each American's constitutional right to marry the person they love, no matter what state they inhabit. No state should decide who can marry and who cannot. Thanks to the tireless work of so many, someday soon this discrimination will end and every American will be able to enjoy their equal right to marriage.”
“It is early Christmas morning. As I write, the sun has yet to rise. The world remains drowsy, only now beginning the process of shaking itself awake. But as the world rises from its slumber, will it awaken? Will it come to understand the utter immensity of this day? That in a single yet brilliant moment in time, God inserted the whole of Himself into time and effortlessly broke the back of history in that single act? Will we begin to comprehend the fact that in that singular act, God altered the entire trajectory of time itself, thereby sending the future careening toward hope instead of descending into darkness? And are we able to even remotely fathom what the world would have been like had time not been altered in this exact manner? On any morning, will we awaken to all of that, or will we do nothing more than arise from slumber but never find ourselves awakened in the arising?”
“IT IS EARLY Sunday morning when Briar is finally able to extricate herself from the apartment, having showered and dressed herself in something that did not remind her of him. Her hair is still wet when she makes it out into the pouring rain outside of their building. The taxi driver is waiting for her at the end of the lane, but she pretends that it is an old friend who has come to rescue her from her darkness, so that any neighbours who might catch a glimpse of her will be unaware of her loneliness.”
Source: A Scandal of the Particular
“It is early, early morning. It's that time when it's still dark but you know the day is coming. Blue is bleeding through black. Stars are dying.”
Source: Underdogs
“It is easier and handier for men to flatter than to praise.”
“It is easier and much more satisfying to rail against the Right than to suggest that we go back to Genesis 1 and study together. Liberals can be just as intolerant as fundamentalists, and we have arrived at a moment in human history when intolerance and hope are mutually exclusive. (p. 6)”
Source: Saving Jesus from the Church: How to Stop Worshiping Christ and Start Following Jesus
“It is easier and much more satisfying to rail against the Right than to suggest that we go back to Genesis 1 and study together. Liberals can be just as intolerant as fundamentalists, and we have arrived at a moment in human history when intolerance and hope are mutually exclusive.”
Source: Saving Jesus from the Church: How to Stop Worshiping Christ and Start Following Jesus
“It is easier, doubtless, to go with the tide than to oppose it; but our object should be to divert the stream when we find that its course is pernicious.”
Source: Sylvester Sound, the Somnambulist
“It is easier, far easier, to obey another than to command oneself.”
Source: When Nietzsche Wept
“It is easier for a cannibal to enter the Kingdom of Heaven through the eye of a rich man's needle that it is for any other foreigner to read the terrible German script.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.”
“It is easier for a libertarian to attack the science of global warming than to alter one's core libertarian beliefs.”
“It is easier for a lion to rule a jungle than for sheep to rule a forest.”
“It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than his planet; the by-laws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members. A club, moreover, or a nation, offers the right to be exclusive. There are not many of us who are physically constituted to resist this strange delight, this nourishing privilege. It is at the bottom of all fraternities, societies, orders. It is at the bottom of most trouble. The planet holds out no such inducement. The planet is everybody's. All it offers is the grass, the sky, the water, and the ineluctable dream of peace and fruition.”
Source: On Democracy
“It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.”
“It is easier for a man to be thought fit for an employment that he has not, than for one he stands already possessed of, and is exercising.”
“It is easier for a man to burn down his own house than to get rid of his prejudices.”
“It is easier for a political party to attain national ballot status in Russia today than it is for the Libertarian party or the Green party to get on the ballot in, say, Pennsylvania.”
“It is easier for a rich person to act on their principles than it is for someone with fewer choices (which is why it is all the more disappointing when a wealthy person plays to the crowd).”
“It is easier for a Russian to become an atheist than for anyone else in the world.”
“It is easier for a Russian to become an Atheist, than for any other nationality in the world. And not only does a Russian 'become an Atheist,' but he actually BELIEVES IN Atheism, just as though he had found a new faith, not perceiving that he has pinned his faith to a negation. Such is our anguish of thirst!”