I Quotes
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“It is only by instigation of the wrongs of men that what are called the Rights of Man become turbulent and dangerous.”
“It is only by knowing how little life has in store for us that we are able to look on the bright side and avoid disappointment.”
Source: The Sheltered Life
“It is only by labour that thought can be made healthy, and only by thought that labour can be made happy, and the two cannot be separated with impunity.”
Source: The Stones of Venice -: The Sea Stories
“It is only by learning new things and by keeping in touch with old things will you know you more than you’ve ever known yourself.”
“It is only by living completely in this world that one learns to have faith.”
Source: Letters and Papers from Prison
“It is only by loving a thing that you can make it yours.”
“It is only by loving others that we can learn to live; living is rare nowadays...most people survive; that is all.”
“It is only by making the past alive again for a person that a true growth in the present is facilitated. If the past is cut off, the future does not exist.”
Source: Bioenergetics
“It is only by means of purity of mind can you come close to the Lord.”
“It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.”
“It is only by participation in a rational, practice-based community that one becomes rational.”
“It is only by persistent focus on your dreams; you will pull all the divine forces for the passion of fulfilled dream.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“It is only by practicing through a continual succession of agreeable and disagreeable situations that we acquire true strengths. To accept that pain is inherent and to live our lives from this understanding is to create the causes and conditions for happiness.”
“It is only by presenting those portions of the race in my pictures, in the light and backround of their true state, that we can raise our people to greater heights.”
“It is only by prudence, wisdom, and dexterity that great ends are attained and obstacles overcome. Without these qualities nothing succeeds.”
Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut
“It is only by putting it into words that I make it whole. This wholeness means that it has lost its power to hurt me; it gives me, perhaps because by doing so I take away the pain, a great delight to put the severed parts together”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)
“It is only by questioning what people take for granted, what people hold to be true, that we can break through the hypnosis of social conditioning.”
Source: Creating Affluence: The A-to-Z Steps to a Richer Life
“It is only by remembering that 'Another lives in me' that we can die daily to that old, false, usurping self, and that we can continue to be drawn further in and higher up into the life of God. To 'practice the presence' is to continually call to mind this great reality.”
“It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.”
Source: Pragmatism and Other Writings
“It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.”
Source: The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, and Human Immortality
“It is only by sacrificing everything to the senses' pleasure that this individual, who never asked to be cast into this universe of woe, that this poor creature who goes under the name of Man, may be able to sow a smattering of roses atop the thorny path of life.”
Source: Philosophy in the Boudoir
“It is only by seeing beauty in everything that we can see it in any one single thing, day after day. Don't run into the arms of obsession, for that quickly fades. Long lasting love comes from an open, loving heart.”
“It is only by the abolition of the State, by the conquest of perfect liberty by the individual, by free agreement, association, and absolute free federation that we can reach Communism — the possession in common of our social inheritance, and the production in common of all riches.”
Source: Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings
“It is only by the exercise of reason that man can discover God.”
Source: THE AGE OF REASON - Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology (Including
“It is only by the rational use of technology; to control and guide what technology is doing; that we can keep any hopes of a social life more desirable than our own: or in fact of a social life which is not appalling to imagine.”
“It is only by the sharp thorn of his [Christ's] suffering that the poisonous thorn of our sin is drawn.”
Source: The Cross He Bore: Meditations on the Sufferings of the Redeemer
“It is only by understanding the cultural complexity and largeness of the concept of agriculture that we can see the threatening diminishments implied by the term 'agribusiness.'”
Source: The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture
“It is only by understanding the emotion of others that an investor has a chance to produce superior results.”
“It is only by walking in the digital footsteps of your customer that you can uncover a new landscape of opportunities for engagement as well as a new reality for your business.”
Source: What's the Future of Business?: Changing the Way Businesses Create Experiences
“It is only by yielding to God that we can begin to realize His will for us. And if we truly trust God, why not yield to His loving omniscience? After all, He knows us and our possibilities much better than do we.”
“It is only called patience when it ends up with results that Justify the time awaited, the emotions given and the tears spent.”
“It is only certain that there is nothing certain, and that nothing is more miserable or more proud than man.”
Source: All the Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne
“It is only Christianity, the great bond of love and duty to God, that makes any existence valuable or even tolerable.”
“It is only common prejudice that induces us to believe that atheism is a fearful state.”
“It is only common sense to recognize that the great bulk of Americans, whether Republican or Democrat, face many common problems and agree on a number of basic objectives.”
“It is only comparatively primitive machinery that affords a stimulus, and there is already a faint period touch about Pacific 231 and Le Pas d'Acier. One feels...that Prokofieff should have written ballets about the spinning jenny and the Luddite riots; that Honegger should have been there to celebrate the opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway and the death of Huskisson with a "Symphonie Triomphale et Funèbre".”
“it is only courage on the path itself that makes the path appear”
Source: Stories for Parents, Children and Grandchildren -
“It is only dislocated minds whose movements are spasmodic.”
“It is only dogs that never bite their masters.”
Source: The ides of March
“It is only doubt that creates.”
Source: The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche
“It is only doubt that creates. It is only the minority that counts.”
Source: The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche
“It is only during a storm that a tree knows how strong it is.”
“It is only education and understanding of the past that teaches us not to repeat history.”
“It is only fair to admit, however, that my batting average in the crystal ball league is point, zero, zero, zero.”
“It is only fair to state, with regard to modern journalists, that they always apologize to one in private for what they have written against one in public.”
Source: The Soul of Man, and Prison Writings
“It is only for a while. I will receive you when you die, with special love.’
“‘That won’t do me any good.’ Essa struggles through sobs, finds speech, bends it until she can keep hold of it. ‘It won’t be a little while for me. It’ll be my life. And when you receive me, I’ll be dead.”
Source: Black Wine
“It is only for me, that luminosity she exudes, of ethereal beauty and haunting eminence.”
“It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us.”
Source: Assata: An Autobiography
“It is only for those without hope that hope is given.”
“It is only framed in space that beauty blooms; only in space are events, and objects and people unique and significant and therefore beautiful.”
Source: SELECTIONS FROM GIFT FROM THE SEA