I Quotes
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“It is the subject of the will, i.e., his own volition, which fills the
consciousness of the singer, often as a released and satisfied desire ;
(joy), but still oftener as an inhibited desire ( grief), always as an
affect, a passion, a moved state of mind. Besides this, however, and
along with it, by the sight of surrounding nature, the singer becomes conscious of himself as the subject of pure will-less knowing, whose unbroken blissful peace now appears, in contrast to the
stress of desire, which-is always restricted and always needy. The
feeling of this contrast, this alternation, is really what the song as a
whole expresses and what principally constitutes the lyrical state.
In it pure knowing comes to us as it were to deliver us from willing
and its strain; we follow, but only for moments; willing, the remembrance of our own personal ends, tears us anew from peaceful
contemplation; yet ever again the next beautiful environment in
which pure will-less knowledge presents itself to us lures us away
from willing. Therefore, in the song and the lyrical mood, willing
(the personal interest of the ends) and pure perception of the environment are wonderfully mingled; connections between them are
sought and imagined; the subjective mood, the affection of the will,
imparts its own hue to the perceived environment, and vice versa.
Genuine song is the expression of the whole of this mingled and
divided state of mind.”
“It is the subjective world that rules the objective. Change the subject, and the object is bound to change; purify youreslf, and the world is bound to be purified.”
Source: Personality Development
“It is the success which makes great men.”
Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut
“It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness”
Source: Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution
“it is the sum of small things successfully done that lifts a life out of bondage to the humdrum.”
Source: Wake Up and Live!: A Formula for Success That Really Works!
“It is the sun that shares our works.
The moon shares nothing. It is a sea.”
Source: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
“It is the sunset rather than the sunrise that suits the atmosphere of the cemeteries!”
“IT is the super glue to integrate people, processes, and technologies into unique business competencies such as innovation.”
Source: The Change Agent CIO
“It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.”
“It is the superfluous things for which men sweat.”
“It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.”
Source: Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century
“It is the surest proof of man's natural enmity against God that he dares to impute falsehood to one who is truth itself.”
Source: According to Promise
“It is the surface I am interested in. Because the surface is the inside.”
“It is the surgeon’s duty to tranquillize the temper, to beget cheerfulness, and to impart confidence of recovery.”
Source: The Lectures of Sir Astley Cooper: On the Principles and Practice of Surgery
“It is the surmounting of difficulties that makes heroes.”
“It is the sweat of the servants that make their squire look smart.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.”
Source: Little house in the Ozarks: a Laura Ingalls Wilder sampler : the rediscovered writings
“It is the sweetest spring within the memory of man. So green, so mild, so beautiful! Ah, what a contrast between nature without and my own soul so torn with doubt and terror!”
Source: A Study in Terror: Volume 1: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Revolutionary Stories of Fear and the Supernatural
“It is the swimmer who first leaps into the frozen stream who is cut sharpest by the ice; those who follow him find it broken, and the last find it gone. It is the men or women who first tread down the path which the bulk of humanity will ultimately follow, who must find themselves at last in solitudes where the silence is deadly.”
Source: Woman and Labor
“It is the system itself that, that is incapable of producing freedom for the twenty-two million Afro-Americans. Just like a chicken can't lay a duck egg, a chicken can't lay a duck egg, because the system of the chicken isn't constructed in the way to produce a duck egg. And just as that chicken system can't produce, is not capable to, of producing a duck egg, the political and economic system of this country is absolutely incapable of producing freedom and justice and equality and human dignity for the twenty-two million Afro-Americans.”
“It is the system of nationalist individualism that has to go....We are living in the end of the sovereign states....In the great struggle to evoke a Westernized World Socialism, contemporary governments may vanish....Countless people...will hate the new world order....and will die protesting against it.”
“It is the system, rather than individuals, that is the source of pollution and degradation. My prison-house environment is but another manifestation of the Midas-hand, whose cursed touch turns everything to the brutal service of Mammon.”
Source: Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist
“It is the tale, not he who tells it.”
Source: Different Seasons: Four Novellas
“It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.”
Source: The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin: Accurately Revised in Six Volumes, Adorned with Copper-plates : with Some Account of the Author's Life and Notes Historical and Explanatory
“It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.”
“It is the task of radical thought, since the world is given to us in unintelligibility, to make it more unintelligible, more enigmatic, more fabulous.”
“It is the task of radical thought, since the world is given to us unintelligibly, to make it more unintelligible, more enigmatic, more fabulous.”
“It is the task of San shamans to activate their supernatural potency, to cause it to ‘boil’ up their spines until it explodes in their heads and takes them off to the spirit realms – that is, they enter a state of trance at the far end of the intensified trajectory.”
Source: The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art
“It is the task of several months and it is a fact that a girl, either while rehearsing or actually playing, may be training for some character or feature in some future production not yet definitely fixed even in my own mind.”
“It is the task of the architect to give life a gentler structure.”
“It is the task of the scenarist to invent little pieces of business that are so characteristic and give so deep an insight into his creatures, that their personalities clearly and organically unfold before the eyes of the audience so that the latter feel that the actions of these people are contingent upon their characters, that there exists some kind of a logical fate, and that nothing is left to mere accident or coincidence.”
“It is the task of the "science of man" to arrive eventually at a correct description of what deserves to be called human nature. What has often been called "human nature" is but one of its many manifestations - and often a pathological one - and the function of such mistaken definition usually has been to defend a particular type of society as being the necessary one.”
Source: The Sane Society
“It is the task of the translator to release in his own language that pure language that is under the spell of another, to liberate the language imprisoned in a work in his re-creation of that work.”
Source: Illuminations
“It is the task of youth not to reshape the church, but rather to listen to the word of God.”
“It is the teacher's and the lawmaker's responsibility to allow the child to express his feelings about growing up. What happens to a child at that particular age? It is a terribly vulnerable time, and if we provide youths with an environment to
be free, to be expressive, without embarrassing them, without shaming them, they would grow up to be healthy, compassionate adults. Instead, if we force them to “belong, belong, belong,” they all become repressed. There is a complete absence of options.”
“It is the 'Teacher', that shapes a novice; not only with his studies, but character too.”
“It is the teacher's job to point out mistakes so that an individual doesn't continue to hurt themselves or others.”
“It is the teaching of the Bible and of sound Political ethics that the education of children belongs to the sphere of the family and is the duty of the parents. The theory that the children of the Commonwealth are the charge of the Commonwealth is a pagan one, derived from heathen Sparta and Platoís heathen republic, and connected by regular, logical sequence with legalized prostitution and the dissolution of the conjugal tie.”
“It is the tears of the earth that keep her smiles in bloom.”
Source: Collected poems and plays of Rabindranath Tagore
“It is the tendency of Government to grow, for practices and programs to become the nearest thing to eternal life we'll see on this earth.”
Source: Actor, Ideologue, Politician: The Public Speeches of Ronald Reagan
“It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme.”
Source: The Forgotten Man's Almanac: Rations of Common Sense from William Graham Sumner
“It is the tenderness that breaks our hearts. The loveliness that leaves us stranded on the shore, watching the boats sail away. It is the sweetness that makes us want to reach out and touch the soft skin of another person. And it is the grace that comes to us, undeserving though we may be.”
“It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science.”
Source: Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science
“It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.”
“It is the test of a novel writer's art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass; but the reader may be sure that it is always there.”
Source: Ralph the heir. With illustr. by F.A. Fraser
“It is the the duty of a Webmaster to allocate URIs which you will be able to stand by in 2 years, in 20 years, in 200 years.”
“It is the theory of all modern civilized governments that they protect and foster the liberty of the citizen; it is the practice of all of them to limit its exercise, and sometimes very narrowly.”
“It is the theory that decides what can be observed.”
“It is the theory which decides what can be observed”
“It is the theory which decides what we can observe”