I Quotes
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“It is the essence of genius to make use of the simplest ideas.”
“It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain”
Source: The Pursuit of Justice
“It is the essence of the institutions of liberty that it be recognized that guilt is personal and cannot be attributed to the holding of opinions or to mere intent in the absence of overt acts.”
“It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive. Why should it exaggerate? There is that which should be destroyed and that which should be simply illuminated and studied. How great is the force of benevolent and searching examination! We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.”
“It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive.... We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.”
“It is the eternal struggle between these two principles - right and wrong. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time and will ever continue to struggle. It is the same spirit that says, "You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it."”
Source: Political Debates Between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, in the Celebrated Campaign of 1858 in Illinois: Including the Preceding Speeches of Each at Chicago, Springfield, Etc., Also the Two Great Speeches of Mr. Lincoln in Ohio, in 1859, as Carefully Prepared by the Reporter of Each Party and Published at the Times of Their Delivery
“It is the eternal truth that you must always seek and promote otherwise you are just holding on to unsupported concepts that are the seeds of future lies.”
Source: Life Is A Circus
“It is the eternal, inescapable law that growth comes only from work and preparation, whether the growth be material, mental, or spiritual. Work has no substitute.”
“It is the evening that questions thus from within me.”
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and Nobody
“It is the everlasting disgrace of the Clinton Administration that it has chosen to betray America's heritage as a beacon of freedom, and instead to act as the ally and agent of a police state in retrieving one of its prisoners.”
“It is the evil in man that makes democracy necessary, and man's belief in justice that makes democracy possible.”
“It is the evil that lies in ourselves that is ever least tolerant of the evil that dwells within others.”
Source: Wisdom and Destiny
“It is the exact experience of mathematics. Not merely the adding up of your grocery bill, or the daily uses that we make of number. But the great concept of a universal exactitude, that numbers are an instrument of magic. And by means of them, men can unlock all the wonders of the world.”
“It is the exception, not the norm, for a company to maintain a strong culture with public ownership.”
“It is the excitement of becoming - always becoming, trying, probing, falling, resting, and trying again- but always trying and always gaining”
“It is the expensiveness of our pleasures that makes the world poor and keeps us poor in ourselves. If we could but learn to find enjoyment in the things of the mind, the economic problems would solve themselves.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion
“It is the experience of living that is important, not searching for meaning. We bring meaning by how we love the world.”
Source: How to Live Between Office Visits: A Guide to Life, Love and Health
“It is the experience of love that enables us to change.”
“It is the experiences, the memories, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found.”
Source: Into the Wild
“It is the experiences, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found. God it's great to be alive!”
“It is the experiences, the memories, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found. God it's great to be alive! Thank you. Thank you.”
Source: Into the Wild
“It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.”
“It is the eye of the master that fatteth the horse, and the love of the woman that maketh the man.”
Source: John Lyly: Selected Prose and Dramatic Work
“It is the fable of Jesus Christ, as told in the New Testament, and the wild and visionary doctrine raised thereon, against which I contend. The story, taking it as it is told, is blasphemously obscene.”
Source: The Age of Reason: Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology
“It is the face of a girl who has seen the world, who realizes that it hates her, and who hates it in return.”
Source: Fever
“It is the fact that the electrons cannot all get on top of each other that makes tables and everything else solid.”
Source: The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Desktop Edition Volume I
“It is the facts that matter, not the proofs. Physics can progress without the proofs, but we can't go on without the facts ... if the facts are right, then the proofs are a matter of playing around with the algebra correctly.”
“It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.”
“It is the faith and perseverance and single-mindedness with which Hitler has perfected his weapons of destruction that commands my admiration.”
Source: Collected Works
“It is the faith of the man that determines the size of the man. Therefore, in a society that raises up paper giants as fast as they fall, we can know that (although they are small by society’s standards), there are Godly giants out there that walk on paper.”
“It is the faithfulness of God that allows epistemology to model ontology.”
“It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.”
“It is the familiar that usually eludes us in life. What is before our nose is what we see last.”
“It is the familiarity with suppression that makes it normal and acceptable.”
Source: Life Is A Circus
“It is the fancy of every mortal that being cradled in the arms of mortality is a safe place for the time being.”
“It is the fashion these days to make war, and presumably it will last a while yet.”
“It is the fashion to style the present moment an extraordinary crisis.”
Source: The Works of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, Embracing Novels, Romances, Plays, Poems, Biography, Short Stories and Great Speeches: Coningsby, v. 2. Selected speeches
“It is the fashion to talk of our changing climate and bewail the hot summers and hard winters of tradition, but how seldom we pause to marvel at the remarkable constancy of the weather from year to year.”
Source: The Peverel papers: nature notes written in Liphoo, Hampshire, 1921-1927
“It is the fate of all things to ripen, and then to decay.”
“It is the fate of every great achievement to be pounced upon by pedants and imitators who drain it of life and turn it into an orthodoxy which stifles all stirrings of originality.”
Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer
“It is the fate of every truth to be an object of ridicule when it is first acclaimed.”
Source: An Anthology
“It is the fate of great achievements, born from a way of life that sets truth before security, to be gobbled up by you and excreted in the form of shit. For centuries great, brave, lonely men have been telling you what to do. Time and again you have corrupted, diminished and demolished their teachings; time and again you have been captivated by their weakest points, taken not the great truth, but some trifling error as your guiding principal. This, little man, is what you have done with Christianity, with the doctrine of sovereign people, with socialism, with everything you touch. Why, you ask, do you do this? I don't believe you really want an answer. When you hear the truth you'll cry bloody murder, or commit it. … You had your choice between soaring to superhuman heights with Nietzsche and sinking into subhuman depths with Hitler. You shouted Heil! Heil! and chose the subhuman. You had the choice between Lenin's truly democratic constitution and Stalin's dictatorship. You chose Stalin's dictatorship. You had your choice between Freud's elucidation of the sexual core of your psychic disorders and his theory of cultural adaptation. You dropped the theory of sexuality and chose his theory of cultural adaptation, which left you hanging in mid-air. You had your choice between Jesus and his majestic simplicity and Paul with his celibacy for priests and life-long compulsory marriage for yourself. You chose the celibacy and compulsory marriage and forgot the simplicity of Jesus' mother, who bore her child for love and love alone. You had your choice between Marx's insight into the productivity of your living labor power, which alone creates the value of commodities and the idea of the state. You forgot the living energy of your labor and chose the idea of the state. In the French Revolution, you had your choice between the cruel Robespierre and the great Danton. You chose cruelty and sent greatness and goodness to the guillotine. In Germany you had your choice between Goring and Himmler on the one hand and Liebknecht, Landau, and Muhsam on the other. You made Himmler your police chief and murdered your great friends. You had your choice between Julius Streicher and Walter Rathenau. You murdered Rathenau. You had your choice between Lodge and Wilson. You murdered Wilson. You had your choice between the cruel Inquisition and Galileo's truth. You tortured and humiliated the great Galileo, from whose inventions you are still benefiting, and now, in the twentieth century, you have brought the methods of the Inquisition to a new flowering. … Every one of your acts of smallness and meanness throws light on the boundless wretchedness of the human animal. 'Why so tragic?' you ask. 'Do you feel responsible for all evil?' With remarks like that you condemn yourself. If, little man among millions, you were to shoulder the barest fraction of your responsibility, the world would be a very different place. Your great friends wouldn't perish, struck down by your smallness.”
Source: Listen, Little Man!
“It is the fate of most men who mingle with the world, and attain even the prime of life, to make many real friends, and lose them in the course of nature. It is the fate of all authors or chroniclers to create imaginary friends, and lose them in the course of art. Nor is this the full extent of their misfortunes; for they are required to furnish an account of them besides.”
Source: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Volume 2 (of 2) (Illustrations)
“It is the fate of operating systems to become free.”
“It is the Father's life, and the Father's life alone, that ever lives the Christian life. It is the Father's life, and Father's life alone, which will live the Christian life in you. Embrace a formula or a list in order to "live the Christian life," and you are doomed to frustration.”
Source: The secret to the Christian life: have we overlooked the main point?
“It is the fault of the United States that these terrible people, these insurgents and terrorists are out there. They are the ones that we ought to be focusing our energy on defeating and not just wring our hands about the fact that it's going to be difficult.”
“It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.”
“It is the favourite stratagem of our passions to sham a retreat, and to turn sharp round upon us at the moment we have made up our minds that the day is our own.”
Source: Adam Bede
“It is the fear of being as dependent as a young child, while not being loved as a child is loved, but merely being kept alive against one's will.”
Source: The view from 80
“It is the fear of death - 24/7 in every shade of hospital white and doomsday black--that sells the pharmaceutical, political, financial, film, and food product promising to make good the wish to live forever.”