I Quotes
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“It is precisely through the onset of old age, through loss or personal tragedy, that the spiritual dimension would traditionally come into people's lives. This is to say, their inner purpose would emerge only as their outer purpose collapsed and the shell of the ego would begin to crack open. The emphasis shifts from doing to Being, and our civilization, which is lost in doing, knows nothing of Being. It asks: being? What do you do with it?”
“It is precisely when our lives have become unmanageable and tragic that the ego can finally be knocked out of the controlling center of our psyche.”
Source: Ever Flowing On - 2nd Printing
“It is precisely when their interior worlds change shape that Bezukhov and Bolkonsky are confirmed as individuals; that they surprise; that they make themselves different; that their freedom catches fire, and with it the identity of their selves; these are moments of poetry: they experience them with such intensity that the whole world rushes forward to meet them with an intoxicating parade of wondrous details. In Tolstoy, man is the more himself, the more an individual, when he has the strength, the imagination, the intelligence, to transform himself.
By contrast, the people I see changing their attitude toward Lenin, Europe, and so on expose their nonindividuality. This change is neither their own creation nor their own invention, not caprice or surprise or thought or madness; it has no poetry; it is nothing but a very prosaic adjustment to the changing spirit of History. That is why they don't even notice it; in the final analysis, they always stay the same: always in the right, always thinking what, in their milieu, a person is supposed to think; they change not in order to draw closer to some essential self but in order to merge with everyone else; changing lets them stay unchanged.
Another way of expressing it: they change their mind in accordance with the invisible tribunal that is also changing its mind; their change is thus simply a bet on what the tribunal will proclaim to be the truth tomorrow.”
Source: Testaments Betrayed: An Essay in Nine Parts
“It is precisely when we have suffered defeat that we can determine to win and open the path to future victory.”
“It is precisely when we hear little from our partner which frightens, shocks, or sickens us that we should begin to be concerned, for this may be the surest sign that we are being gently lied to or shielded from the other’s imagination, whether out of kindness or from a touching fear of losing our love. It may mean that we have, despite ourselves, shut our ears to information that fails to conform to our hopes — hopes which will thereby be endangered all the more. My view of human nature is that all of us are just holding it together in various ways — and that’s okay, and we just need to go easy with one another, knowing that we’re all these incredibly fragile beings.”
“It is precisely when we help one another that we gain our victories over corruption, but the victory is assured only when we help one another with all our strength.”
Source: The Corrupt Society: From Ancient Greece to Present-Day America
“It is precisely women’s experience of God that this world lacks. A world that does not nurture its weakest, does not know God the birthing mother. A world that does not preserve the planet, does not know God the creator. A world that does not honor the spirit of compassion, does not know God the spirit. God the lawgiver, God the judge, God the omnipotent being have consumed Western spirituality and, in the end, shriveled its heart.”
“It is predicated on the assumption that you dislike what you are doing during the most physically capable years of your life. This is a nonstarter—nothing can justify that sacrifice.”
“It is predictable that God will take care of us. What's unpredictable is how he will do it.”
Source: Finding Grace: A True Story About Losing Your Way In Life...And Finding It Again
“It is preferable not to travel with a dead man.”
“It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.”
“It is preferable to regard labour, including, of course, the personal services of the entrepreneur, and his assistants, as the sole factor of production, operating in a given environment of technique, natural resources, capital equipment and effective demand. This is why we have been able to take labour as the sole physical unit which we require in our economic system, apart from units of money and of time.”
Source: General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money
“It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.”
“It is preposterous to believe that the Russians had any effect on the outcome of voting in America. It's absurd. There is no evidence.”
“It is preposterous to suppose that the people of one generation can lay down the best and only rules of government for all who are to come after them, and under unforeseen contingencies.”
Source: Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant
“It is presentation which lifts the card trick from the level of the commonplace puzzle to the status of an unforgettable and inexplicable mystery.”
Source: Expert Card Technique
“It is President Trump’s destiny to be remembered as an accused secret thief by the USA government.”
“It is presumable that no country will be able to borrow of foreigners upon better terms than the United States, because none can, perhaps, afford so good security.”
Source: Reports of the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, Prepared in Obedience to the Act of the 10th May, 1800: ... to which are Prefixed, the Reports of Alexander Hamilton, on Public Credit, on a National Bank, on Manufactures, and on the Establishment of a Mint ... Printed by Order of the Senate of the United States
“It is presumed that there exists a great unity in nature, in respect of the adequacy of a single cause to account for many different kinds of consequences.”
Source: Theoretical Philosophy, 1755-1770
“It is presumptuous to draw conclusions about a person from what one has heard”
Source: Indiscretion
“It is pretty amazing. My parents, who came from Nicaragua to the U.S. - who would have thought that they would have American kids on the Olympic team? I think that's the epitome of the Olympic dream.”
“It is pretty clear in the Bible story that the whale swallowing Jonah wasn't meant as a punishment from God, it was God saving him from drowning. So it was actually provision to give him a second chance. The whale itself was the start of Jonah's second chance.”
“It is pretty clear that society needs reshaping, and quickly.”
“It is pretty cool to have my own video game. As a kid, growing up, it was something I never even thought of. I thought about just trying to get the new game that was coming out, so that my buddies and I, we could all enjoy it together. When I was a kid, never once in my wildest dream - even when I turned pro- that was never something that I really thought about, having my own video game. Thanks to EA, it's a reality.”
“It is pretty damn obvious that there are positive impacts of climate change, even though we are not always allowed to talk about them.”
“It is pretty hard to find the right result to a controversial issue.”
“It is pretty hard to talk about responsibility unless you have exercised it yourself.”
“It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.”
“It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country”
“It is pretty tough for a goalie when you look at it. You're always the last line of defense. If you let a goal in, you can't go to the bench and hide between the guys or anything”
“It is pretty well settled that the city is the Negro's great contribution to civilization, for it was in Africa where the first cities grew up.”
“It is pride that makes error and discord among men.”
Source: The Coffee House of Surat
“It is pride which fills the world with so much harshness and severity. We are rigorous to offenses as if we had never offended.”
“It is prima facie highly implausible that life as we know it is the result of a sequence of physical accidents together with the mechanism of natural selection.”
Source: Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False
“It is prima facie highly implausible that life as we know it is the result of a sequence of physical accidents together with the mechanism of natural selection. We are supposed to abandon this naïve response, not in favor of a fully worked out physical/chemical explanation but in favor of an alternative that is really a schema for explanation, supported by some examples. What is lacking, to my knowledge, is a credible argument that the story has a nonnegligible probability of being true.”
“It is primarily through the growth of science and technology that man has acquired those attributes which distinguish him from the animals, which have indeed made it possible for him to become human.”
Source: The Human Meaning of Science
“It is principally for the sake of the leg that a change in the dress of man is so much to be desired. The leg is the best part of the figure and the best leg is the man s. Man should no longer disguise the long lines, the strong forms, in those lengths of piping or tubing that are of all garments the most stupid.”
“It is privilege of living to be acutely, agonizingly conscious of the moment that is always present and always passing.”
Source: Out of my time
“It is privilege that causes evil in the world, not wickedness, and not men.”
Source: The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens ...
“It is probable, as Anthony Faulkes suggests, that the pagan religion was never systematically understood by those who practiced it. Different areas of Scandinavia worshipped different gods at different times in the pre-Christian era; the localized nature of cults and rituals produced neither dogma nor sacred texts, as far as we know. Rather pre-Christian religion was 'a disorganized body of conflicting traditions that was probably never reduced in heathen times to a consistent orthodoxy such as Snorri attempts to present'.”
Source: The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes
“It is probable that a greater number of monuments of the skill and industry of man will, in the course of the ages, be collected together in the bed of the ocean than will exist at any other time on the surface of the continents.”
Source: Principles of Geology: Being an Inquiry how Far the Former Changes of the Earth's Surface are Referable to Causes Now in Operation
“It is probable that all heavy matter possesses - latent and bound up with the structure of the atom - a similar quantity of energy to that possessed by radium. If it could be tapped and controlled what an agent it would be in changing the world's destiny! The man who put his hand on the lever by which a parsimonious nature regulates so jealously the output of this store of energy would possess a weapon by which he could destroy the earth if he chose.”
“It is probable that both in life and in art the values of a woman are not the values of a man.”
Source: Selected essays
“It is probable that democracy owes more to nonconformity than to any other single movement.”
Source: Religion And The Rise Of Capitalism
“It is probable that television drama of high caliber and produced by first-rate artists will materially raise the level of dramatic taste of the nation.”
Source: Pioneering in television, prophecy and fulfillment: excerpts from speeches and statements
“It is probable that the lemon is the most valuable of all fruit for preserving health.”
Source: A Modern Herbal: The Medicinal, Culinary, Cosmetic and Economic Properties, Cultivation and Folk-lore of Herbs, Grasses, Fungi, Shrubs, & Trees with All Their Modern Scientific Uses
“It is probable that the
most inhuman monsters, even the Himmlers and the Mengeles, convince themselves that they are
engaged in noble and courageous acts.”
“It is probable that the principal credit of miracles, visions, enchantments, and such extraordinary occurrences comes from the power of imagination, acting principally upon the minds of the common people, which are softer.”
Source: Complete Essays
“It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn.”
Source: The enquirer. Reflections on education, manners, and literature. In a series of essays
“It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn. The true object of juvenile education, is to provide, against the age of five and twenty, a mind well regulated, active, and prepared to learn. Whatever will inspire habits of industry and observation, will sufficiently answer this purpose.”
Source: The Enquirer: Reflections on Education, Manners, and Literature. In a Series of Essays