T Quotes
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“The ideal of a well-stocked mind aiming at excellence in all walks of life has been replaced by the dream of a well-stocked wine cellar, the cellar now being a specially made wine cooler strategically placed in one’s house, to be viewed by even the most unobservant visitor.”
“The ideal of all Kosovo is membership in the EU and a permanent friendship with the United States. I believe and I am convinced our dreams will come true.”
“The ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility.”
Source: Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art
“The ideal of brotherhood of man, the building of the Just City, is one that cannot be discarded without lifelong feelings of disappointment and loss. But, if we are to live in the real world, discard it we must.”
“The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.”
Source: The journal of Jules Renard
“The ideal of character always runs beyond the attainment.”
Source: Problems of Life: Selections from the Writings of Rev. Lyman Abbott
“The ideal of explication differs not only from previous philosophy, and from Carnap’s own previous framework of rational reconstruction, but also from most present analytic philosophy. It differs from Quine’s influential programme, for instance, encapsulated in Neurath’s metaphor of reconstructing the boat of our conceptual scheme on the open sea, without being able to put it in dry-dock and reconstruct it from new materials. In Carnap’s framework, our collective mental life is not – to adopt the metaphor – all in the same boat. It consists rather of a give and take between two kinds of communicative devices that operate in different ways. Carnap’s boat is only one of these two parts, not both. It is the medium of action and practical decisions, in which vague concepts of ordinary language have a continuing, perhaps essential, role. This is not, in Carnap’s terms, a proper linguistic ‘framework’ at all. It is a medium not for the pursuit of truth but for getting things done, and it is well adapted to this purpose. To improve it further, we chip away at it and replace its components, a few at a time, with better ones – and this reconstruction, it is true, we carry out at sea. But the better components we acquire from the ports we call at, where we go shopping for proper linguistic frameworks. We take on board better materials and better navigational instruments that help us to reach whatever ports we hope to visit in future – where we can again bring on new and improved materials and instruments. Sometimes, the improved instruments will so influence our knowledge of where we are going that the whole plan of the journey will be revised, and we will change course. But the decision what port to head for next we have to make on board, in our pragmatic vernacular, with whatever improvements we have incorporated up to that point.”
Source: Carnap and Twentieth-Century Thought: Explication as Enlightenment
“The ideal of faith in ourselves is of the greatest help to us. If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. Throughout the history of mankind, if any motive power has been more potent than another in the lives of all great men and women, it is that of faith in themselves.”
Source: Practical Vedanta Philosophy
“The ideal of happiness has always taken material form in the house, whether cottage or castle; it stands for permanence and separation from the world.”
Source: The Second Sex
“The ideal of having a real job that you risk your soul in and make good or be damned, belongs to the heroic age of capitalist enterprise, imbued with self-righteous beliefs about hard work, thrift, and public morals. Such an ideal might still have been mentioned in public fifty years ago; in our era of risk-insured semimonopolies and advertised vices it would be met with a ghastly stillness.”
Source: Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society
“The ideal of helping is to make others independent of you. You help them to become more independent rather than making them addicted to you.”
Source: The Mishap Lineage: Transforming Confusion into Wisdom
“The ideal of man is to be a revelation himself, clearly to recognize himself as a manifestation of God.”
“The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.”
“The ideal of perfect Success is an ideal belonging to the same sort of individual as the inventor of Equal Rights of man and Perfectibility.”
Source: Tarr
“The ideal of progress, freedom of thought, and the decline of ecclesiastical power go together.”
Source: A History of Freedom of Thought (Illustrated)
“The ideal of self-advancement which the civilizing west offers to backward populations brings with it the plague of individual frustration. All the advantages brought by the West are ineffectual substitutes for the sheltering and soothing anonymity of communal existence.”
Source: THE TRUE BELIEVER
“The ideal of service and the urge to practice it form the very heart of education.”
“The ideal of the rule of law, along with equality under the law, is one of the bases of tolerance. It means that, one way or another, governments themselves must act in accordance with the law- a responsibility they sometimes try to evade. The treatment of asylum seekers in Australia is an example, where successive Commonwealth governments have produced a series of changes to the law. In a liberal-democratic society the rule of law also means that there must be open discussion about those laws and how they are being upheld in the courts. It also means predictability- known rules about the relationship between people and governments, and in certain matters, between individuals. It is intended to mean fairness - no one should be condemned unheard, and hearings must be carried out openly by courts or tribunals as independent of governments as possible. (In their wars against asylum seekers, governments have shuffled procedures around as if they were fairground illusionists.)”
Source: 10 Steps to a More Tolerant Australia
“The ideal of the supreme being is nothing but a regulative principle of reason which directs us to look upon all connection in the world as if it originated from an all-sufficient necessary cause.”
Source: Critique of pure reason
“The ideal of universal literacy, in the West anyway, was first of all a Protestant idea - that everybody had to be able to read to save their soul. That idea got transposed into an idea of the importance of literacy for democratic citizenship.”
“The ideal of warriorship is that the warrior should be sad and tender, and because of that, the warrior can be very brave as well.”
Source: Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior
“The ideal of womanhood in India is motherhood - that marvellous, unselfish, all - suffering, ever - forgiving mother.”
Source: Awakened India
“The ideal pecuniary [financial] man is like the ideal delinquent in his unscrupulous conversion of goods and persons to his own ends, and in a callous disregard of the feelings and wishes of others and of the remoter effects of his actions; but he is unlike him in possessing a keener sense of status, and in working more consistently and far-sightedly to a remoter end.”
Source: Conspicuous Consumption
“The ideal person is he who, in the midst of the greatest silence and solitude, finds the intensest activity, and in the midst of the intensest activity finds the silence and solitude of the desert.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“The ideal person is simply the one you love
and who also loves you.”
“The ideal person is simply the one you love and who loves you back.”
“The ideal photographic document would appear to be without author or art.”
“The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.”
Source: The Uses of Literature
“The ideal pre-show meal I think is pho, the Vietnamese soup. It's very light and good for you, and then the broth is great for the throat.”
“The ideal project does not exist, each time there is the opportunity to realize an approximation.”
“The ideal protective layer for a lithium metal anode needs to be chemically stable to protect against the chemical reactions with the electrolyte and mechanically strong to withstand the expansion of the lithium during charge.”
“The ideal purpose of being disciplined is not to make an obedient individual but to make a trained leader”
“The ideal racecar will expire 100 yards past the finish line.”
“The ideal ratio is one computer to every five students; we are nowhere close to that percentage in a lot of schools in America.”
“The ideal reader cannot sleep when holding the writer he was meant to be with.”
Source: The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2003
“The ideal reader of my novels is a lapsed Catholic and failed musician, short-sighted, colour-blind, auditorily biased, who has read the books that I have read.”
“The ideal reader's the same, and I suppose this person has never had a face or a gender or an age. It's just some kind of unknown other who will be sympathetic and read each word carefully and understand what I'm writing about. I suppose every writer feels this.”
“The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it.”
“The ideal relationship is one between two self-sufficient people who unite in a mature, respectful way while maintaining clear boundaries.”
Source: Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find—and Keep—Love
“The ideal revolutionary command should effectively direct all planning and implementation. It must not allow the growth of any other rival center of power. There must be one command pooling and directing the subsequent governmental departments, including the armed forces.”
“The ideal scientist thinks like a poet and works like a bookkeeper”
Source: Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
“The ideal set up by the Party was something huge, terrible, and glittering-a world of steel and concrete, of monstrous machines and terrifying weapons-a nation of warriors and fanatics, marching forward in perfect unity, all thinking the same thoughts and shouting the same slogans, perpetually working, fighting, triumphing, persecuting-three hundred million people all with the same face.”
Source: 1984
“The ideal set up would be to own an NBA team, a D-League team, and a WNBA team.”
“The ideal set-up would be the story man, the director, and the layout man, as well as musician, operating as a sort of story unit. They all should be keenly interested in the picture. No one in person should donate to an extent where he would keep the others from entering into the production and freely expressing themselves.”
“The ideal situation for a parent is one that no one has - having a fulfilling job that requires you to work three days a week. It's better for the parents, because they get to spend time with the children and also have a source of pride and achievement - and income - outside the home.”
“The ideal situation for any state is to experience sharp economic growth while its rivals' economies grow slowly or hardly at all.”
Source: The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (Updated Edition)
“The ideal situation would be to bypass all of the drama and mayhem and just get the music right to the people. I'm confident that we'll eventually figure it out.”
“The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power of means to coerce others.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“The ideal society has yet to be built - one which balances nicely collective well-being and individual well-being.”
Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words
“The ideal state for a philosopher, indeed, is celibacy tempered by polygamy.”
Source: Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche