T Quotes
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“The most striking about modern industry is that it requires so much and accomplishes so little. Modern industry seems to be inefficient to a degree that surpasses one's ordinary powers of imagination. Its inefficiency therefore remains unnoticed.”
Source: SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL
“The most striking aspect of linguistic competence is what we may call the 'creativity of language,' that is, the speaker's ability to produce new sentences, sentences that are immediately UNDERSTOOD by other speakers although they bear no physical resemblance to sentences which are 'familiar.”
Source: Selected Readings on Transformational Theory
“The most striking characters are sometimes the product of an infinity of little accidents.”
“The most striking contradiction of our civilization is the fundamental reverence for truth which we profess and the thorough-going disregard for it which we practice.”
Source: The Standardization of Error
“The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.”
“The most striking difference between ancient and modern sophists is that the ancients were satisfied with a passing victory of the argument at the expense of truth, whereas the moderns want a more lasting victory at the expense of reality”
Source: The Origins of Totalitarianism
“The most striking difference between little ones and grownups is that little ones cannot worry, and they cannot worry because they have no past and no future. They live only in the present moment. Just watch children. If they play, they play and don't even hear us call them and don't notice anything that is going on around them. If they eat, they eat; if they sleep, they sleep. There is a beautiful English word which describes how they do whatever they do, they do it 'whole-heartedly', whereas grownups always are half-hearted.”
“The most striking difference between the ancient and modern sophists is that the ancients were satisfied with a passing victory of the argument at the expense of truth, whereas the moderns want a more lasting victory at the expense of reality. In other words, one destroyed the dignity of human thought whereas the others destroy the dignity of human action. The old manipulators of logic were the concern of the philosopher, whereas the modern manipulators of facts stand in the way of the historian. For history itself is destroyed, and its comprehensibility—based upon the fact that it is enacted by men and therefore can be understood by men—is in danger, whenever facts are no longer held to be part and parcel of the past and present world, and are misused to prove this or that opinion.”
Source: The Origins of Totalitarianism
“The most striking fault in work by young or beginning novelists, submitted for criticism, is irrelevance--due either to infatuation or indecision. To direct such an author's attention to the imperative of relevance is certainly the most useful--and possibly the only--help that can be given.”
Source: Pictures and conversations
“The most striking feature if this map is the stark fat of the Two Roads. There is the road that leads to Life, and there is the road that leads to Death. There is Good, and there is Evil. There is Right and there is Wrong.”
“The most striking feature of contemporary culture is the unslaked craving for transcendence.”
Source: The Real American Dream
“The most striking feature of the new is the sheer mass. Photography was previously a mass phenomenon, but now, quantity is doubtless the outstanding quality. For a long time photos have been taken frequently and everywhere, but now photos are taken permanently and everywhere,... What is new is that we can watch them practically in real time.”
“The most striking feature of the perennial philosophy/psychology is that it presents being and consciousness as a hierarchy of dimensional levels, moving from the lowest, densest, and most fragmentary realms to the highest, subtlest, and most unitary ones.”
Source: Eye to Eye: The Quest for the New Paradigm
“The most striking features of the correctly bred German Shepherds are firmness of nerves, attentiveness, unshockability, tractability, watchfulness, reliability and incorruptibility together with courage, fighting tenacity and hardness.”
“The most striking finding is that between 1900 and 2006, nonviolent resistance campaigns were nearly twice as likely to achieve full or partial success as their violent counterparts.”
Source: Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict
“The most striking impression was that of an overwhelming bright light. I had seen under similar conditions the explosion of a large amount—100 tons—of normal explosives in the April test, and I was flabbergasted by the new spectacle. We saw the whole sky flash with unbelievable brightness in spite of the very dark glasses we wore. Our eyes were accommodated to darkness, and thus even if the sudden light had been only normal daylight it would have appeared to us much brighter than usual, but we know from measurements that the flash of the bomb was many times brighter than the sun. In a fraction of a second, at our distance, one received enough light to produce a sunburn. I was near Fermi at the time of the explosion, but I do not remember what we said, if anything. I believe that for a moment I thought the explosion might set fire to the atmosphere and thus finish the earth, even though I knew that this was not possible.”
Source: Enrico Fermi, Physicist
“The most striking thing about Graham's discussion of how to allocate your assets between stocks and bonds is that he never mentions the word "age".”
Source: The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel
“The most striking thing about highly effective leaders is how little they have in common. What one swears by, another warns against. But one trait stands out: the willingness to risk.”
“The most striking thing about modern industry is that it requires so much and accomplishes so little.”
Source: SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL
“The most striking thing about the rich is the gracious democracy of their manners -- and the crude vulgarity of their way of life.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“The most striking thing is that even before Osama bin Laden was killed, he seemed largely irrelevant to the Arab Spring.”
“The most striking thing Snowden has revealed is the depth of what the NSA and the Five Eyes countries [Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Great Britain, and the US] are doing, their hunger for all data, for total bulk dragnet surveillance where they try to collect all communications and do it all sorts of different ways. Their ethos is "collect it all."”
“The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic.”
“The most strongly enforced of all known taboos is the taboo against knowing who or what you really are behind the mask of your apparently separate, independent, and isolated ego.”
Source: The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
“The most stubborn of heads may waver when bashed against a rock.”
Source: Toils of the Valiant: Book Two of the Chronicles of Vrandalin
“The most stupendous miracle in all music.”
“The most stupendous system of organized robbery known has been that of the church towards woman, a robbery that has not only taken her self-respect but all rights of person; the fruits of her own industry; her opportunities of education; the exercise of her judgment, her own conscience, her own will.”
Source: Woman, church and state: a historical account of the status of woman through the Christian ages, with reminiscences of the matriarchate
“The most stupid mistake a counter-insurgency operation can make is alienating the population. If you alienate the population, you're finished.”
“The most stupid religion is Islam.”
“The most stylish country in the world is Italy.”
“The most sublime act is to set another before you.”
Source: William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose
“The most sublime courage I have ever witnessed has been among that class too poor to know they possessed it, and too humble for the world to discover it.”
“The most sublime efforts of philosophy can extend no farther than feebly to point out the desire, the hope, or, at most, the probability, of a future state, there is nothing, except a divine revelation, that can ascertain the existence, and describe the condition of the invisible country which is destined to receive the souls of men after their separation from the body.”
Source: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edited and Abridged): Abridged Edition
“The most sublime labour of poetry is to give sense and passion to insensate things; and it is characteristic of children to take inanimate things in their hands and talk to them in play as if they were living persons... This philological-philosophical axiom proves to us that in the world's childhood men were by nature sublime poets...”
Source: New Science
“The most sublime truth of all has never been stated or written or sung. Not because it is far away and can not be reached, but because it is so intimately close, closer than anything that can be spoken. It is alive as the stillness in the core of your being, too close to be described, too close to be objectified, too close to be known in the usual way of knowledge. The truth of who you are is yours already. It is already present.”
“The most subtle art, the strongest and deepest art - supreme art - is the one that does not at first allow itself to be recognized.”
“The most subtle flattery that a woman can receive is by actions, not by words.”
“The most subtle of our acts is to simulate blindness for snares that we know are set for us.”
“The most subversive people are those who ask questions.”
“The most subversive thing a woman can do is talk about her life as if it really matters.”
Source: Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution
“The most successful and brilliant work a lighting designer can do is usually the least noticeable.”
“The most successful are not the most perfect, but the imperfect who dare to believe that they can despite the damning verdict.”
Source: Pearls Of Eternity
“The most successful athletes are self-motivated. “The most important thing is to love your sport,” said Peggy Fleming, the former Olympic figure-skating champion. “Never do it to please someone else—it has to be yours. That is all that will justify the hard work needed to achieve success.”
Source: Mind Gym: An Athlete's Guide to Inner Excellence
“The most successful businesses have an idea for the future that's very different from the present.”
“The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better.”
“The most successful businessmen were often uneducated when measured by the scholastic standards of the teaching profession. But they were equal to their social function of adjusting production to the most urgent demand. Because of these merits the consumers chose them for business leadership.”
Source: Human action: a treatise on economics
“The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken.”
Source: Howards End
“The most successful column is one that causes the reader to throw down the paper in a peak of fit.”
“The most successful comics are always the hardest-working ones.”
“The most successful educational approach to the Negro is throgh a religious appeal. We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the Minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.”