I Quotes
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“It is the Power you generate in the private that Empowers your Public Prayer Life.”
“It is the powerful who know how to honour, it is their art, their domain for invention.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche
“It is the practice of daydreaming. You need to find a quiet place and sit in a comfortable position, close your eyes, and imagine what you want as though it’s here and it’s yours. Imagine it until you can feel it and believe that it has already happened.”
Source: The Magic of Daydreaming
“It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers.”
“It is the Prana that is manifesting as motion.”
Source: Raja Yoga: Conquering the Internal Nature
“It is the prayer of my innermost being to realize my supreme identity in the liberated play of consciousness, the Vast Expanse. Now is the moment, Here is the place of Liberation.”
Source: Art Psalms
“It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.”
“It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects.”
“It is the prerogative of wizards to be grumpy. It is not, however, the prerogative of freelance consultants who are late on their rent, so instead of saying something smart, I told the woman on the phone, "Yes, ma'am. How can I help you today?”
Source: Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files
“It is the prerogative of women to make men wait.”
Source: All Hallows' Eve in Stickleback Hollow
“It is the preservation of the species, not of individuals, which appears to be the design of Deity throughout the whole of nature.”
“It is the Press which has corrupted our political morals - and it is to the Press we must look for the means of our political regeneration.”
“It is the prime responsibility of every citizen to feel that his country is free and to defend its freedom is his duty. Every Indian should now forget that he is a Rajput, a Sikh or a Jat. He must remember that he is an Indian and he has every right in this country but with certain duties.”
“It is the principle of sin, rebellion against God and His truth which has brought about birth defects and other destructive natural occurrences.”
“It is the privilege and duty of the present generation to pass on to its successors, unimpaired, the heritage of liberty bequeathed to it by the founders of the Republic.”
“It is the privilege of adults to give advice. It is the privilege of youth not to listen. Both avail themselves of their privileges, and the world rocks along.”
“It is the privilege of affection to see a friend in all the situations of his soul.”
Source: Selected Philosophical and Scientific Writings
“It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate, whose faithful work will answer for him.”
Source: The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life
“It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.”
“It is the privilege of greatness to confer intense happiness with insignificant gifts.”
Source: The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche: Human, all-too-human
“It is the privilege of loneliness; in privacy one may do as one chooses. One might weep if no one saw.”
Source: Mrs. Dalloway
“It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.”
Source: The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison
“It is the privilege of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers, and where the humour of each displays itself, without ceremony or restraint.”
Source: Waverley Novels: Kenilworth
“It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.”
“It is the privilege of the rich To waste the time of the poor To water with tears in secret A tree that grows in secret That bears fruit in secret That ripened falls to the ground in secret And manures the parent tree Oh the wicked tree of hatred and the secret The sap rising and the tears falling.”
Source: New Selected Poems of Stevie Smith
“It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!”
Source: Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel
“It is the privilege of true genius, And especially genius who opens up a new path, To make great mistakes with impunity”
“It is the process of evolution which identifies innovative benefits from any source and selects them on merit without prejudice”
“It is the professional pilot's bounden duty to know the idiosyncrasies of each type (of airplane), for he must spend a large proportion of his active career exploiting its qualities and compensating for its faults. These secrets cannot be discovered in a ground school.”
Source: Fate Is the Hunter
“It is the profoundest of cosmic ironies. The divine power, our true spiritual essence, does not achieve perfection until it hits the 'rock' bottom of the cosmos - the dense and crude earth. It remains imperfect until the moment of entombment for the simple reason that until that dark nadir is reached the experiential adventure of existence remains incomplete, and Self is not yet endowed with the entire spectrum of the light of consciousness - from spirit to matter - from the highest high to the lowest low.”
Source: The New Hermetics: 21st Century Magick for Illumination and Power
“It is the property of a great and good mind to covet, not the fruit of good deeds, but good deeds themselves, and to seek for a good man even after having met with bad men.”
“It is the property of fools to be always judging.”
“It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the flowers in spring, to reawaken in us the sharp edge of sense and that impression of mystic strangeness which otherwise passes out of life with the coming of years; but the sight of a loved face is what renews a man's character from the fountain upwards.”
Source: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: The Merry Men and Other Stories
“It is the proud boast of many a modern man that he has never paid for porn, but he doesn't need to; women pay for it with their physical and mental health everyday. And with their lives. Whereas the average life expectancy in the USA is 78 years old, the average life expectancy of a porn star is 37 years. Not shelf life - actual life.”
Source: Welcome to the Woke Trials
“It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.”
“It is the province of poetry to be more realistic and present than the artificial narratives of an outer discourse, and not afraid of the truthful difficulty of the average human life.”
“It is the province of the tarot reader to move backwards, forwards, even sideways in time.”
Source: 365 Tarot Spreads: Revealing the Magic in Each Day
“It is the prowess of scholars that meetings bring delight and departures leave memories.”
“It is the psychic depression of decadence which has come to this place and time. It is what happens to people who ignore their artists and deny their children. It is a terminal case of involutional melancholia which comes from within and cannot be cured by T.V. or psychotherapy or anything but a creative life, which is hard to come by in a country where it doesn't pay to do anything for yourself.”
“It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.”
“It is the public schools, however, which can be made, outside the homes, the greatest means of training decent self-respecting citizens. We have been so hotly engaged recently in discussing trade-schools and the higher education that the pitiable plight of the public-school system in the South has almost dropped from view. Of every five dollars spent for public education in the State of Georgia, the white schools get four dollars and the Negro one dollar; and even then the white public-school system, save in the cities, is bad and cries for reform. If this is true of the whites, what of the blacks? I am becoming more and more convinced, as I look upon the system of common-school training in the South, that the national government must soon step in and aid popular education in some way. To-day it has been only by the most strenuous efforts on the part of the thinking men of the South that the Negro’s share of the school fund has not been cut down to a pittance in some half-dozen States; and that movement not only is not dead, but in many communities is gaining strength. What in the name of reason does this nation expect of a people, poorly trained and hard pressed in severe economic competition, without political rights, and with ludicrously inadequate common-school facilities? What can it expect but crime and listlessness, offset here and there by the dogged struggles of the fortunate and more determined who are themselves buoyed by the hope that in due time the country will come to its senses?”
Source: The Souls of Black Folk
“It is the pull of opposite poles that stretches souls. And only stretched souls make music.”
Source: Working and Thinking on the Waterfront: A Journal, June 1958-May 1959
“It is the pure arrogance of the newly rich and the newly powerful to think content is easy.”
“It is the purity of man's heart and mind, and his innocent and faithful approach to action with the purpose of all good to everyone, which really succeeds in yielding maximum results with minimum effort.”
“It is the purpose of government to see that not only the legitimate interests of the few are protected but that the welfare and rights of the many are conserved.”
Source: Looking Forward
“It is the purpose of life that each of us strives to become actually what he or she is potentially. Each photographer, then, should be obsessed with stretching towards that goal through an understanding of others and the world we inhabit. When that happens, the results, like photographs, are really the expressions of the life of the maker.”
“It is the purpose of the government to see that not only the legitimate interests of the few are protected but that the welfare and rights of the many are conserved.”
Source: Looking Forward
“It is the purpose that makes strong the vow; But vows to every purpose must not hold.”
Source: The plays of William Shakespeare: With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators
“It is the pursuit and attainment of political party power that divides and defines a nation. Not race, not religion, not national origin, not color, not gender, not socioeconomic status, nor sexual orientation, no these are all just sacrificial pawns of the political arena. If you want to know where common sense goes to die and where tribalism goes to be born, look no further than party politics.”
Source: A Walk with Prudence
“It is the pursuit of happiness that brings us happiness, and not the happiness achieved.”