P Quotes
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“Preceding the birth of every religion, there was someone who was an incarnation of this process: imagination causes inspiration causes intuition causes beauty, which causes imagination…the dynamic that takes place in the dimension of spirit. That is, for whatever reasons that will remain mysterious, although they are suggested in various schools of thought, someone got the cause thing down right, and the rest flowed. After the fact, an effort was made, almost always by others, to control both the impact of this and the possible benefits from it. Ambition and desire took over. Where you had an exact presentation, or manifestation, of beauty and truth, somebody began using it for other purposes.”
Source: Re:
“Precept is instruction written in the sand; the tide flows over it and the record is gone; example is graven on the rock, and the lesson is not soon lost.”
“Preceptive wisdom that has not been vivified by life has in itself no affinity for life.”
“Precepts are like seeds; they are little things which do much good; if the mind which receives them has a disposition, it must not be doubted that his part contributes to the generation, and adds much to that which has been collected.”
“Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.”
“Precepts of Solomonology
1. Silence is better speech
2. Curiosity is better than ignorance
3. Patience is better than anger
4. Knowledge is better than silver
5. Humility is better than honor
6. Discipline is better than decadence
7. Learning is better than teaching
8. Diligence is better than impermanence
9. Health is better wealth
10.Wisdom is better than gold”
“Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where to find.”
“Precepts, conventions - above all traditions - have no value in art.”
“Precious and spacious
The aspiring heart has to remain
Always.”
“Precious attribute of woe-worn humanity! that can snatch ecstatic emotion, even from under the very share and harrow, that ruthlessly ploughs up and lays waste every hope.”
Source: The last man, by the author of Frankenstein
“Precious beyond price are good resolutions. Valuable beyond price are good feelings.”
Source: Speech in Season
“Precious few are those who can live in the lap of luxury ... who can keep their moral, spiritual and financial equilibrium ... while balancing on the elevated tightrope of success. ... there is about one in a hundred who can dance to the tune of success without paying the piper named Compromise.”
Source: Growing Strong in the Seasons of Life
“Precious gems are profoundly buried in the earth and can only be extracted at the expense of great labor.”
“Precious is sleep, better to be of stone,
while the oppression and the shame still last;
not seeing and not hearing, I am blest;
so do not wake me, hush! keep your voice down.”
Source: Complete Poems and Selected Letters
“Precious jewel, you glow, you shine, reflecting all the good things in the world. Just look at yourself.”
“precious laughing time is wasted, because I have to put up with Satan's stupid minions who smile without attempting to anger somebody else - leave us alone already.”
“Precious metals are a little better than cash but still a terrible investment from a long-term investor’s perspective.”
“Precious moments are small elements of time, we show and share love and kindness, with those we care about.”
“Precious Saviour! come in spirit, and lay Thy strong, gentle grasp of love on our dear boys and girls, and keep these our lambs from the fangs of the wolf.”
“Precious," the cat said and leaned forward, angling his head. Shane longed for the cat's kiss, but instead the cat bent to nip Shane's chin. "So mine. And so hungry.”
Source: An Unauthorized Field Guide to the Hunt
“Precious things lost are transmutable. They refuse oblivion. They simply wait to be rendered into testimonies, into stories and songs.”
Source: Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora
“Precious to me - it is the Dinner Bell. Oh blessed Bell! Thou bringest beef and beer.”
Source: Verses and Translations
“Precious was one of a large number of people on the street, many of whom appeared to be women; some, like Precious, actually were.”
“Precipices are the routine routes of the unroutine men.”
“Precipitous decisions by companies pertaining to employees, devoid of documented established ground of denial of any of the demands or rights sought by the employees, or as adumbrated in law, would be construed in all probability unpalatable by the labor department and Judiciary.”
“Precisamente "rondar las cosas por el otro lado" es lo que diferencia al poeta del científico o del político, quienes, por el contrario, prefieren tenerlas siempre de frente, muy de frente.”
Source: Imagen de Julio Cortázar
“Precisamos da desgraça para escavar certas minas misteriosas escondidas na inteligência humana; precisamos da pressão para fazer a pólvora explodir.”
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo
“Precisamos ir além do que já conhecemos”
Source: Pequeno Manual Antirracista
“Precisamos que as pessoas tentem imaginar de verdade – de uma vez por todas – como é ter seu corpo invadido, sua mente despedaçada, sua alma estilhaçada.”
Source: The Vagina Monologues
“Precisaremos de uma força-tarefa de psicoterapeutas para combater o tsunami de tristeza que vem pela frente. As águas já recuaram assustadoramente na orla da pandemia, mas não se sabe o tamanho do vagalhão de infelicidade que desabará sobre os homens e as mulheres, sobre as crianças que crescem e os velhos que sobrarem. Antes do coronavírus, apenas a obtusidade proibicionista, que dura meio século, ainda impedia o acesso a uma classe de substâncias – os psicodélicos – que a pesquisa científica indica ser capaz de mitigar as dores da alma impostas pelo tempo. Depois da Covid-19, seguir bloqueando a pesquisa que mapeia seu potencial será um crime ao estilo dos genocidas instalados em alguns governos.”
Source: Psiconautas: viagens com a ciência psicodélica brasileira
“precisava deste resto de solidão para aprender sobre este resto de companhia. este resto de vida, américo, que eu julguei já ser um excesso, uma aberração, deu-me estes amigos. e eu que nunca percebi a amizade, nunca esperei nada da solidariedade, apenas da contingência da coabitação, um certo ir obedecendo, ser carneiro. eu precisava deste resto de solidão para aprender sobre este resto de amizade.”
Source: A máquina de fazer espanhóis
“Precise adaptation, with each part finely honed to perform a definite function in an optimal way, can only lead to blind alleys, dead ends, and extinction.”
“Precise forecasts masquerade as accurate ones.”
Source: The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't
“Precise, graceful, and generous, the poems in SuperLoop, seem to be born out of a deep, careful attention and a profound compassion. Sometimes the quiet observer, sometimes the kid in the center of the messed-up carnival, these poems are the fireflies you’ve missed all winter, the longed-for return of the bees. Unaffected and inherently hopeful, Callihan’s work is as merciful as it is moving.”
“Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.”
“Precisely because a living being may die, it is necessary to care for that being so that it may live. Only under conditions in which the loss would matter does the value of the life appear. Thus, grievability is a presupposition for the life that matters.”
Source: Frames of War: When is Life Grievable?
“Precisely because Galilean science is, in the formation of its concepts, the technic of a specific Lebenswelt , it does not and cannot transcend this Lebenswelt . It remains essentially within the basic experiential framework and within the universe of ends set by this reality.”
Source: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
“Precisely because intelligent design does not turn the study of biological origins into a Bible-science controversy, intelligent design is a position around which Christians of all stripes can unite.”
“Precisely because Marx was convinced that the cause of the proletariat was of decisive importance for the whole future of mankind, he wanted to create for that cause not a flimsy platform of rhetorical invective or wishful thinking, but the rock-like foundation of scientific truth.”
“Precisely because of the greatness of God, we don't have to be great at all. Just in awe.”
“Precisely because our political speeches are meant to be reported, they are not worth reporting. Precisely because they are carefully designed to be read, nobody reads them.”
“Precisely because she had tended and pitied, the desolation is hers as well.”
Source: Letters to a Young Doctor
“Precisely because we cannot predict the moment, we must be ready at all moments.”
Source: The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis
“Precisely because we do not communicate by singing, a song can be out of place but not out of character; it is just as credible that a stupid person should sing beautifully as that a clever person should do so.”
“Precisely because white denial has long trumped claims of racism, people of color tend to underreport their experiences with racial bias rather than exaggerate them.”
Source: Speaking Treason Fluently: Anti-Racist Reflections From an Angry White Male
“Precisely constructed models for linguistic structure can play an important role, both negative and positive, in the process of discovery itself. By pushing a precise but inadequate formulation to an unacceptable conclusion, we can often expose the exact source of this inadequacy and, consequently, gain a deep understanding of the linguistic data. More positively, a formalized theory may automatically provide solutions for many problems other than those for which it was explicitly designed.”
Source: Syntactic Structures
“Precisely how are we supposed to win a war if we're not allowed to, you know, actually shoot anyone? --From SCAPEGOATS: The Goat Protocols”
Source: Scapegoats The Goat Protocols
“Precisely in an age when the inviolable rights of the person are solemnly proclaimed and the value of life is publicly affirmed, the very right to life is being denied or trampled upon, especially at the more significant moments of existence: the moment of birth and the moment of death.”
Source: The Encyclicals of John Paul II
“Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others.”
Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words Addressed to Those who Think
“Precisely in Sebastian Bach, we can clearly recognise that not this or that style alone can lay claim to the title of a church style, but that only a soul filled with the holiest and highest can speak the language that can bring the most exalted things home to us, and that discards the mean and the unworthy.”