I Quotes
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“It is not conflict of opinions that has made history so violent but conflict of belief in opinions, that is to say conflict of convictions.”
Source: Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
“It is not confused. We are.”
“It is not consistent with truth that a man should sacrifice half of his stomach only to God-that he should be sober in drinking, but intemperate in eating. Your belly is your God, your liver is your temple, your paunch is your altar, the cook is your priest, and the fat steam is your Holy Spirit; the seasonings and the sauces are your chrisms, and your belchings are your prophesizing...[such] a grossly- feeding Christian is akin to lions and wolves rather than God. Our Lord Jesus called Himself Truth and not habit.”
“It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.”
“It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger. It is not contrary to reason for me to choose my total ruin, to prevent the least uneasiness of an Indian, or person wholly unknown to me. It is as little contrary to reason to prefer even my own acknowledged lesser good to my greater, and have a more ardent affection for the former than the latter.”
“It is not courage that makes us speak the truth, but it is a hunger for truth that makes us courageous”
Source: The Success Genome Unravelled: Turning men from rot to rock
“It is not cowardice to turn from a path you know in your heart is wrong for you. It is rather a sign of great bravery.”
“It is not crazy to think that powerful people do some pretty horrible things. And maybe they get out of hand. Maybe it just gets away from them. It snowballs.”
“It is not customary to love what one has.”
“It is not darkness you are going to, for God is Light. It is not lonely, for Christ is with you. It is not unknown country, for Christ is there.”
Source: Charles Kingsley, His Letters and Memories of His Life
“It is not death or dying that is tragic, but rather to have existed without fully participating in life- that is the deepest personal tragedy.”
“It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.”
Source: Epictetus: Discourses and Enchiridion
“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
Source: Meditations
“It is not death that I'm apparently now succumbing to, but the rapid diminishment of lifeforce from this body of mine.”
“It is not death that kills us, but life. We are done to death by life.”
“It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.”
Source: For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)
“It is not death therefore that is burdensome, but the fear of death.”
“It is not death to have the body called back to the earth, and dissolved into its kindred elements, and mouldered to dust, and, it may be, turn to daisies, in the grave. But it is death to have the soul paralyzed, its inner life quenched, its faculties dissipated; that is death.”
“It is not death we fear, but the thought of it.”
“It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.”
“It is not deeds or acts that last: it is the written record of those deeds and acts.”
Source: Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work
“It is not defeat that destroys you,it is being demoralized by defeat that destroy you.”
“It is not democracy to send in billions of dollars to push regime change overseas. It isn't democracy to send in the NGOs to re-write laws and the constitution in places like Ukraine. It is none of our business.”
“It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.”
Source: In Pursuit of Laughter ...
“It is not depression or anxiety that truly hurts us. It is our active resistance against these states of mind and body. If you wake up with low energy, hopeless thoughts, and a lack of motivation - that is a signal from you to you. That is a sure sign that something in your mind or in your life is making you sick, and you must attend to that signal. But what do most people do? They hate their depressed feelings. They think "Why me?" They push them down. They take a pill. And so, the feelings return again and again, knocking at your door with a message while you turn up all the noise in your cave, refusing to hear the knocks. Madness. Open the door. Invite in depression. Invite anxiety. Invite self-hatred. Invite shame. Hear their message. Give them a hug. Accept their tirades as exaggerated mistruths typical of any upset person. Love your darkness and you shall know your light.”
“It is not designed that the road should be made too smooth for us here upon earth.”
“It is not desire. Instead it is something deeper. I don't want to be with him constantly and forever. I want to be with him for the moment, and I want the moments to go on forever.”
“It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.”
Source: The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings
“It is not differences of opinion; it is geographical lines, rivers, and mountains which divide State from State, and make different nations of mankind.”
Source: The rise and fall of the Confederate Government
“It is not difficult for an unwise mother quite unintentionally to centre the heterosexual feelings of a young son upon herself, and it is true that, if this is done, the evil consequences pointed out by Freud will probably ensue. This is, however, much less likely to occur if the mother's sexual life is satisfying to her, for in that case she will not look to her child for a type of emotional satisfaction which ought to be sought only from adults. The parental impulse in its purity is an impulse to care for the young, not to demand affection from them, and if a woman is happy in her sexual life she will abstain spontaneously from all improper demands for emotional response from her child.”
Source: Marriage and Morals
“It is not difficult for me to have this faith, for it is incontrovertible that where there is a plan there is intelligence - an orderly, unfolding universe testifies to the truth of the most majestic statement ever uttered - 'In the beginning, God.”
“It is not difficult for one seal to make many impressions exactly alike, but to vary shapes almost infinitely, which is what God has done in creation, this is in truth a divine work.”
“It is not difficult to avoid death. It is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.”
“It is not difficult to be a revolutionary when revolution has already broken out and is in spate, when all people are joining the revolution just because they are carried away, because it is the vogue, and sometimes even from careerist motives. It is far more difficult--and far more precious--to be a revolutionary when the conditions for direct, open, really mass and really revolutionary struggle do not yet exist.”
“It is not difficult to be successful when you have an audience, people applauding you, and people who support you! But the important thing is to keep going and succeed when there is no audience, no supporters, no people applauding you!”
“It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.”
“It is not difficult to be unhappy or discontented; all you have to do is sit down, like a prince waiting to be amused. ... It is impossible to be happy if one does not have the desire to be happy; one must therefore will one's happiness, and create it.”
“It is not difficult to censor foreign news. What is difficult today is to censor one's own thoughts, To sit by and see the blind man On the sightless horse, riding into the bottomless abyss.”
“It is not difficult to conceive, however, that for many reasons a man writes much better than he lives. For without entering into refined speculations, it may be shown much easier to design than to perform. A man proposes his schemes of life in a state of abstraction and disengagement, exempt from the enticements of hope, the solicitations of affection, the importunities of appetite, or the depressions of fear.”
Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752
“It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian.”
“It is not difficult to deprive the great majority of independent thought. But the minority who will retain an inclination to criticize must also be silenced....Public criticism or even expressions of doubt must be suppressed because they tend to weaken pubic support....When the doubt or fear expressed concerns not the success of a particular enterprise but of the whole social plan, it must be treated even more as sabotage.”
“It is not difficult to destroy Islam. Islam is the pumped up ego of a megalomaniac psychopath. Muhammad was a narcissist madman. Just as a huge balloon can be deflated by a small needle, all it takes to make Islam explode is to ridicule its loony inventor and its brainless followers.”
“It is not difficult to find a religious justification for killing.”
Source: The great transformation: the beginning of our religious traditions
“It is not difficult to find everywhere in the world that love is on sale, including free sex.”
“It is not difficult to govern. All one has to do is not to offend the noble families.”
“It is not difficult to grasp and express thoughts that float on the stream of current opinion: but to think and rightly utter what is permanently true and interesting, what shall appeal to the best minds a thousand years hence, as it appeals to them to-day, this is the work of genius.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion
“It is not difficult to know a thing; what is difficult is to know how to use what you know”
“It is not difficult to make microbes resistant to penicillin in the laboratory by exposing them to concentrations not sufficient to kill them, and the same thing has occasionally happened in the body. The time may come when penicillin can be bought by anyone in the shops. Then there is the danger that the ignorant man may easily underdose himself and by exposing his microbes to non-lethal quantities of the drug make them resistant.”
“It is not difficult to nourish admirable thoughts when the stars are present.”
“It is not difficult to rebuild a life. All we need is to be aware that we have the same strength we had before, and to use it in our favor.”