T Quotes
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“The Englishman walks before the law like a trained horse in the circus. He has the sense of legality in his bones, in his muscles.”
“The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being; the American wants to be considered a good guy.”
“The Englishman's strong point is his vigorous insularity; that of the American his power of adaptation. Each of these attitudes has its perils. The Englishman stands firmly on his feet, but he who merely does this never advances. The American's disposition is to step forward even at the risk of a fall.”
“The Englishmen in the Middle East divided into two classes. Class one, subtle and insinuating, caught the characteristics of the people about him, their speech, their conventions of thought, almost their manner. He directed men secretly, guiding them as he would. In such frictionless habit of influence his own nature lay hid, unnoticed.
Class two, the John Bull of the books, became the more rampantly English the longer he was away from England. He invented an Old Country for himself, a home of all remembered virtues, so splendid in the distance that, on return, he often found reality a sad falling off and withdrew his muddle-headed self into fractious advocacy of the good old times. Abroad, through his armoured certainty, he was a rounded sample of our traits. He showed the complete Englishman. There was friction in his track, and his direction was less smooth than that of the intellectual type: yet his stout example cut wider swathe.
Both sorts took the same direction in example, one vociferously, the other by implication. Each assumed the Englishman a chosen being, inimitable, and the copying him blasphemous or impertinent. In this conceit they urged on people the next best thing. God had not given it them to be English; a duty remained to be good of their type. Consequently we admired native custom; studied the language; wrote books about its architecture, folklore, and dying industries. Then one day, we woke up to find this chthonic spirit turned political, and shook our heads with sorrow over its ungrateful nationalism - truly the fine flower of our innocent efforts.
The French, though they started with a similar doctrine of the Frenchman as the perfection of mankind (dogma amongst them, not secret instinct), went on, contrarily, to encourage their subjects to imitate them; since, even if they could never attain the true level, yet their virtue would be greater as they approached it. We looked upon imitation as a parody; they as a compliment.”
Source: The Seven Pillars of Wisdom
“The Englishmen is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet.”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“The engorged moon hung full and low in the sky like a yellow skull. Misshapen clouds stretched across the floating orb with elongated hands and bony fingers grasping. As they neared the docks, the gas lamps grew fewer and the streets gloomier. The cobblestones blackened as they passed the deserted brickfields. Bottle-shaped kilns spat their outrage with orange tongues of fire into the cooling air. Mangy dogs snarled in hunger and wandering sea-gulls screamed their displeasure at the hansom’s passage.”
Source: The Wolf of Dorian Gray: A Werewolf Spawned by the Evil of Man
“the engrossing pursuit of Americans is wealth.”
Source: Traits of American Life
“The enhancements made them predators any way you looked at it. Hunters. They were good at their jobs. They looked like soldiers. Doctors. Officers. But they were much more than that and anyone in close confines with them felt the difference sooner rather than later.”
Source: Toxic Game
“The enigma of cinema is gone because of the focus on business. As soon as you attach numbers to a film, you limit it. Films are meant to be an escape from reality.”
“The enigma of stuttering is profound. For in a moment, you would sound very fluent, and at other times, you would struggle to utter even a word.”
Source: Stamerenophobia
“The enjoyment comes from knowing the receiver understands the spirit of the gift.”
Source: What I Know For Sure
“The enjoyment has been diminishing. Now, there's no question that it's sort of fun to get high.”
“The enjoyment of freedom which could be exercised without any motivation would be the real hallmark of a maniac.”
“The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.”
Source: The life and character of ... J. E. ... Together with a number of his sermons, etc
“The enjoyment of life is only possible if the world could get connected to the spirit... you become the spirit as Christ has said in simple words that you have to be born again.”
“The enjoyment of life is only possible if we could get connected to the spirit.”
“The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.”
“The enjoyment of one's tools is an essential ingredient of successful work.”
Source: Art of Computer Programming, Volume 2: Seminumerical Algorithms
“The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgment of reason, and perverts its liberty.”
Source: Perpetual Peace
“The enjoyment of the choicest natural scenes in the country and the means of recreation connected with them is thus a monopoly, in a very peculiar manner, of a very few very rich people. The great mass of society, including those to whom it would be of the greatest benefit, is excluded from it. In the nature of the case private parks can never be used by the mass of the people in any country nor by any considerable number even of the rich, except by the favor of a few, and in dependence on them.”
Source: Frederick Law Olmsted: Writings on Landscape, Culture, and Society
“The enjoyment of the sufferer finds expression in those moans; if he did not feel enjoyment in them he would not moan.”
Source: Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
“The enjoyment that all morality has given us to now and that it continues to give us--and so, what has kept it going up to now--lies in everyone's right, without lengthy investigation, to praise and blame. And who could endure life without praising and blaming!”
“The enjoyment that comes from our acts of kindness give us a glimpse of the world that might be, hopefully our future world. Good natured, friendly, human.”
“The enjoyment was just from the too intense consciousness of one's own degradation; it was from feeling oneself that one had reached the last barrier, that it was horrible, but that it could not be otherwise; that there was no escape for you; that you never could become a different man; that even if time and faith were still left you to change into something different you would most likely not wish to change; or if you did wish to, even then you would do nothing; because perhaps in reality there was nothing for you to change into.”
Source: Notes from Underground
“The enjoyments of elegant life you early chose to abandon, preferring to wander for many successive years over the rudest portions of Europe and Asia-regions new to Science-in the hope, happily realized, of winning new truths.
By a rare union of favourable circumstances, and of personal qualifications equally rare, you have thus been enabled to become the recognized Interpreter and Historian (not without illustrious aid) of the Silurian Period.”
Source: Thesaurus Siluricus: The Flora and Fauna of the Silurian Period, with Addenda (from Recent Acquisitions)
“The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.”
“The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society.”
“The enlarging of the soul requires not only some remodeling, but some excavating.”
Source: Men and Women of Christ
“The enlightened are servants of the rich and poor, helpers of the weak and powerful, friends of the lowly and eminent. They are servants of mankind.”
“The enlightened attention rejects nothing nor welcomes anything-like a mirror it responds equally to all.”
“The enlightened being can look through states of mind, but they are also outside of them.”
“The enlightened give thanks for what most people take for granted.”
“The enlightened give thanks for what most people take for granted.... As you begin to be grateful for what most people take for granted, the vibration of gratitude makes you more receptive to good in your life.”
“The enlightened man has cleared out his mind...
When you wake up fully, you see everything clearly.
You are not distracted
because you see everything as it is.”
“The enlightened man is one with the law of causation.”
“The Enlightened mind sees truly – without distinction – anything that comes before it; it understands the true nature of everything, just as a mirror faithfully reflects all objects. If one looks into the depths of the Enlightened mind one sees everything. It is like the experience of Sudhana as described in the Gandavyuha-Sutra. Sudhana is a pilgrim wandering in search of truth, and at the crucial point of the sutra he reaches a magnificent tower in south India. Entering the tower he sees the whole cosmos mirrored, stretching out to infinity – but all contained within this magical tower. In fact, the tower is a symbol of the bodhicitta, or of the
Enlightened mind itself.”
Source: The Bodhisattva Ideal : Wisdom and Compassion in Buddhism
“The Enlightened one (Gnani Purush) never wastes his time in counting money; focus of the awareness of the self (upayog) is wasted in doing this. One's focused awareness (upayog) is where he has ‘interest’!”
“The Enlightened one has told you in never-to-be-forgotten words that this little span of life is but a passing shadow, a fleeting thing.”
Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi
“The enlightened ones (Vitraag Lords) tells us to use the weapon of non-violence (ahinsa) against violence (hinsa). Violence cannot be conquered with violence. It can only be conquered with non-violence.”
Source: Non-Violence: Ahimsa
“The enlightened question to ask in any relationship is, “what can I give rather than what can I get?”
Source: Manifest Your Bliss: A Spiritual Guide to Inner Peace
“The enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution.”
Source: The Art of War
“The enlightened teacher is someone who has become absorbed in eternity. While they may have a body like others, the essence of their being is light.”
“The enlightened world will be one in which everyone is in love with everyone all the time. We will see each other as God created us: as the perfect, loving, and lovable people we really are. The purpose of romantic love is to jump-start our enlightenment.”
“The enlightened worry less than others,
quarrel less than others,
fight less than others,
transgress less than others;
care more than others,
give more than others,
and love more than others.”
“The Enlightenment dream is a good one. The idea that people should rationally appreciate their place in nature, assess threats and possibilities, and regulate their behavior in response is inspiring.”
“The enlightenment experience is not what you think. How could it be anything that you can configure, anything you can imagine, any way that you think it should be?”
“The Enlightenment faith that things are getting a little bit better each decade becomes difficult to support. People recognized that there had just been a war that was worse than the war of 1812, and worse than the Revolution; things were clearly not getting better and better.”
“The Enlightenment has always aimed at liberating men from fear and establishing their sovereignty. Yet the fully enlightened earth radiates disaster triumphant.”
“The Enlightenment is not a nightmare, nor is it something that comes easily to us. It is an aspiration - and a good one!”
“The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America.”