T Quotes
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“The proof of your love for God is seen in your service to men”
“The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it.”
“The proof that most people don’t know how to measure their life by converting time into products is reflected in what they do with their free vacation time.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“The proof that one truly believes is in action.”
“The proof that our relationship is right with God is that we do our best whether we feel inspired or not.”
Source: My Utmost for His Highest
“The proof that the little prince existed is that he was charming, that he laughed, and that he was looking for a sheep. If anybody wants a sheep, that is a proof that he exists.”
Source: The Little Prince:
“The proof that the state is a creation of nature and prior to the individual is that the individual, when isolated, is not self-sufficing.”
Source: Politics
“The proof that you know something is that you are able to teach it”
“The proofs of the existence of God are to such an extent fallen into discredit that they pass for something antiquated, belonging to days gone by.”
“The proofs that God does not exist are very strong, but in lots of people they are not as strong as the feeling that He does.”
Source: East of Eden
“The propaganda machine is endless. Religion, media and schools spew intentional lies and misinformation about proper human-to-animal relationships.”
“The propaganda machine keeps on churning out lies and deceit. And the obedient, unthinking, apathetic people in our society keep accepting it.”
“The propaganda of Communism throughout the world, in organization and direction is in the hands of Jewish agents. As for anyone who does not know that the Bolshevist movement in Russia is Jewish, I can only say that he must be a man who is taken in by the suppression of our deplorable press.”
“The propaganda system allows the U.S. Ieadership to commit crimes without limit and with no suggestion of misbehavior or criminality; in fact, major war criminals like Henry Kissinger appear regularly on TV to comment on the crimes of the derivative butchers.”
“The propaganda that has here reached such a state of perfection covers all aspects of existence and constantly surprises one by finding new fields of endeavor. But once a new generation has grown up that has wholly emancipated itself from the tradition of a union between word and fact, the substance of the word will have been juggled out of it, and it will be like paper money which is nowhere backed by gold, and the propaganda itself will have lost its savor. "And with what shall it be salted? It will no longer be good for anything ... "(Matthew 5:13)”
Source: Daguerreotypes and Other Essays
“The propagandist must utilize all of the technical means at his disposal - the press, radio, TV, movies, posters, meetings, door-to-door canvassing...There is no propaganda as long as one makes use, in a sporadic fashion and at random, of a newspaper article here, a poster or radio program there.”
“The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.”
“The propagation of truth and nonviolence can be done less by books than by actually living on those principles.”
“The propensity to do good things is a choice.”
“The propensity to excessive simplification is indeed natural to the mind of man, since it is only by abstraction and generalisation, which necessarily imply the neglect of a multitude of particulars, that he can stretch his puny faculties so as to embrace a minute portion of the illimitable vastness of the universe. But if the propensity is natural and even inevitable, it is nevertheless fraught with peril, since it is apt to narrow and falsify our conception of any subject under investigation. To correct it partially - for to correct it wholly would require an infinite intelligence - we must endeavour to broaden our views by taking account of a wide range of facts and possibilities; and when we have done so to the utmost of our power, we must still remember that from the very nature of things our ideas fall immeasurably short of the reality.”
Source: The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings, Part 1
“The propensity to intellectualize is itself both essential and dangerous. I think in our modern world we are much more aware of its essential character than of its dangers, and that is why I think of it as being an expression of transcendence.”
“The propensity to make strong emotional bonds to particular individuals [is] a basic component of human nature”
“The propensity to play is situated in very ancient regions of the brain. Rats that have had their neocortex removed still engage in normal play.”
“The propensity to swindle grows parallel with the propensity to speculate during a boom the implosion of an asset price bubble always leads to the discovery of frauds and swindles”
“The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.”
Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations
“The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible.”
Source: The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde
“The proper aim of education is to promote significant learning. Significant learning entails development. Development means successively asking broader and deeper questions of the relationship between oneself and the world. This is as true for first graders as graduate students, for fledging artists as graying accountants.”
Source: Mentor: Guiding the Journey of Adult Learners (with New Foreword, Introduction, and Afterword)
“The proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs our gift.”
Source: The Four Loves
“The proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs our gifts...Thus a heavy task is laid upon Gift-love. It must work toward its own abdication. We must aim at making ourselves superfluous. The hour when we can say 'They need me no longer' should be our reward. But the instinct, simply in its own nature, has no power to fulfill this law.”
“The proper amount of wealth is that which neither descends to poverty nor is far distant from it.”
“The proper and limited use of government is to invoke a common justice and keep the peace - and that is all.”
“The proper artistic response to digital technology is to
embrace it as a new window on everything thats eternally
human, and to use it with passion, wisdom, fearlessness and joy”
“The proper balance between individual liberty and central authority is a very ancient problem.”
Source: Evolution and Ethics
“The proper balance of sugar and salt was the key to perfect barbecue sauce. Of course, when it came to barbecue sauce, everybody had an opinion about the combination of acid, aromatics, fruit, and flavorings---the ineffable umami---that made each bite so satisfying.
But Margot Salton knew with utter certainty that it all started with sugar and salt. She'd even named her signature product after it: sugar+salt. This sauce was her superpower. Her secret. Her stock-in-trade. When she'd had nothing---no home, no education, no family, no means of support---she had created the powerful alchemy of flavors that made grown men moan with pleasure, cautious women ignore their diets, and skeptical foodies beg for more.”
Source: Sugar and Salt
“The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.”
Source: Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations
“The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding. The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married. One should always be in love - that's the reason one should never marry.”
Source: Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast
“The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to.”
Source: Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People
“The proper biblical understanding of sin is much more radical and far-reaching. It can never be used as a weapon, because it will recoil on anyone who tries to deploy it that way.”
Source: Encounters with Jesus: Unexpected Answers to Life's Biggest Questions
“The proper bookmark for a Hunter Thompson book is a pair of brass knuckles.”
“The proper condition of the human is not bovine placidity... the highest degree of tension that can be creatively borne.”
“The proper course of action, when under attack, is usually to counterattack.”
Source: Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition
“The proper definition of a man is an animal that writes letters.”
Source: The Selected Letters of Lewis Carroll
“The proper direction of man's thought is not toward the creation of new laws for government, but toward the acceptance of every person's moral dignity.”
“The proper drinking of Scotch whisky is more than indulgence: it is a toast to civilization, a tribute to the continuity of culture, a manifesto of man's determination to use the resources of nature to refresh mind and body and enjoy to the full the senses with which he has been endowed.”
“The proper education of a man decides his welfare, but the interests of a whole family are secured by the correct education of a woman.”
“The proper education of poor children [is] the ground-work of almost every other kind of charity.... Without this foundation firstlaid, how much kindnessis unavoidably cast away?”
“The proper education of the young does not consist in stuffing their heads with a mass of words, sentences, and ideas dragged together out of various authors, but in opening up their understanding to the outer world, so that a living stream may flow from their own minds, just as leaves, flowers, and fruit spring from the bud on a tree.”
“The proper effect of the Eucharist is the transformation of man into God.”
“The proper end of teaching is to lead our students toward autonomy.”
“The proper ending for any story about people it seems to me, since life is now a polymer in which the Earth is wrapped so tightly, should be the same abbreviation, which I now write large because I feel like it, which is this one: ETC.”