T Quotes
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“The sole purpose of knowledge is to create hunger for experience.”
“The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.”
“The sole purpose of marketing is to sell more to more people, more often and at higher prices. There is no other reason to do it.”
“The sole purpose of religion is not to be a psychological panacea or just a little bit more numerous, better and different social set of norms. It is concerned with questions of why life and for what purpose. Both matter and intelligence exist without us creating them. We merely use them without being the original creators of those things. Internal to us, we have an urge to find meaning to life and our existence. Our consciousness asks for a suitable explanation. Have we come to exist by chance? It is highly unlikely given the extremely accurate conditions required in numerous factors for the life to exist. The human mind suggests that there should be a creator for everything which is not its own creator. Therefore, faith in God is not based on speculative conjecture of 'god of the gaps'. Taking a position that there must be a Creator of this universe is a logical answer instead of believing in existence due to blind random forces by chance.”
Source: Reflections on the Origins in the Post COVID-19 World
“The sole purpose of strategic planning is to enable the company to gain, as effectively as possible, a sustainable edge over its competitors.”
“The sole reason to serve as a Christian is Jesus, yet He is easily lost in the various activities that consume our days.”
“The sole relief I am asking for is to be released from military prison after serving six years of confinement as a person who did not intend to harm the interests of the United States or harm any service members.”
“The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language.”
“The sole sacred duty is to fear God.”
“The sole social evil is darkness; humanity is identity, for all men are made of the same clay.”
“The sole/soul purpose of a book is to be read.”
“The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.”
“The sole virtue of losing your short-term memory is that it does free you to be your own editor.”
Source: The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing
“The sole way to save oneself is to save others. Or to struggle to save others -even that is sufficient.”
“The sole work and deed of universal freedom is therefore death, a death too which has no inner significance or filling, for what is negated is the empty point of the absolutely free self. It is thus the coldest and meanest of all deaths, with no more significance than cutting off a head of cabbage or swallowing a mouthful of water.”
Source: Phenomenology of Spirit
“The solemn and devotional ceremonies of the Piscean Age and the fear of God will give way to a friendly, intimate relationship with God. At long last, Jesus’ happy teachings will resurface.”
Source: The Second Coming of Jesus Christ - a Short Essay
“The solemn fop; significant and budge; A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge”
Source: The Works of William Cowper, Comprising His Poems, Correspondence, and Translations
“The solemn pledge to abstain from telling the truth was called socialist realism.”
“The solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.”
“The solemnity of the annual Nobel ceremonies in Stockholm with the cheerful bad taste of the grand opening of a shopping center in Los Angeles.”
“The Solent was one the worse stretches of sea in England; the current and tides were atrocious, but it was summer and this time the currents and tides were predictable. However, I did not know this; I picked a spot that I could see from the phone, where I would swim from.”
Source: Psycho Steve
“The soles of her feet were summer-tough, numb to the jagged shells and bits of pinecone.”
Source: Summer by the Tides
“The soles of his shoes are worn the way the edges of erasers become rounded with use. As though he walks around correcting his mistakes.”
Source: The Wasted Vigil
“The soles of Neil Armstrong's boots on the moon made permanent impressions on our souls and in our national psyche. Ann and I watched those steps together on her parent's sofa. Like all Americans we went to bed that night knowing we lived in the greatest country in the history of the world. God bless Neil Armstrong.”
“The solicitor general is sometimes referred to as the 10th Supreme Court justice - a pretty important position.”
“The solid, contour less body, like a block of granite and the rasping red skin, bore the same relation to the body of a girl as the rose hip to the rose. Why should the fruit be held inferior to the flower?”
Source: 1984
“The solid truth of the matter is, when you find - if you want to help heal the hurt, if you want to hurt people and - help people in pain, the best way to do so is to call upon the great strength of the country, which is the compassion of our fellow Americans.”
“The solid waste is returned to Earth with the shuttle. If we [astronauts] ever dump solid waste overboard, it's going to give new meaning to wishing upon a falling star.”
“The solid wealth of insurance companies and the success of those who organsie gambling are some indication of the profits to be derived from the efficient use of chance.”
Source: The use of lateral thinking
“The solidarity - now, you can`t challenge [Donald Trump] until he gets there [White House], but let me tell you, we are united. We are going to do our job.”
“The solidarity which binds all men together as members of a common family makes it impossible for wealthy nations to look with indifference upon the hunger, misery and poverty of other nations whose citizens are unable to enjoy even elementary human rights. The nations of the world are becoming more and more dependent on one another and it will not be possible to preserve a lasting peace so long as glaring economic and social imbalances persist.”
“The solidity of our soul is not formed in the vastness of the arena,
It's formed in a space that often has room for only one.”
“The solitary and thoughtful stroller finds a singular intoxication in this universal communion. The man who loves to lose himself in a crowd enjoys feverish delights that the egoist locked up in himself as in a box, and the slothful man like a mollusk in his shell, will be eternally deprived of. He adopts as his own all the occupations, all the joys and all the sorrows that chance offers.”
“The solitary ascent of the Dru had the immediate effect of expanding the horizons of my ideas about mountaineering. It made me aware of possibilities well in advance of the times, which were characterized by very restricted methods. This was how the superb pyramid of K2 surfaced once more in the list of my projects. But I chose K2 as a way for giving concrete form to my new concept of mountaineering: to climb the second highest mountain in the world solo, alpine style, and without oxygen.”
“The solitary beauty thunders in solitude for what people call loneliness, there it hears the music in roar....”
“The solitary Bee Whose buzzing was the only sound of life, Flew there on restless wing, Seeking in vain one blossom where to fix.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Robert Southey: Complete in One Volume
“The solitary chess game Rick is playing when the camera first focuses on him in Casablanca was a real game Bogart was playing by mail with Irving Kovner of Brooklyn. Bogart would play chess with anyone at any time, and, when he was making Casablanca he was also doing his patriotic duty by playing a number of mail games with sailors in the U.S. Navy.
Whatever the quality of his game, Bogart loved chess. "I enjoy chess because there's no luck to it," he told Ezra Goodman.”
Source: Round Up the Usual Suspects: The Making of Casablanca--Bogart, Bergman, and World War II
“The solitary monk who shook the world
From pagan slumber, when the gospel trump
Thunder' d its challenge from his dauntless lips
In peals of truth.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Robert Montgomery ...
“The solitary mortal is certainly luxurious, probably superstitious, and possibly mad: the mind stagnates for want of employment, grows morbid, and is extinguished like a candle in foul air.”
“The solitary mountain-side was made dismal by it. Laughter, when out of place, mistimed, or bursting forth from a disordered state of feeling, may be the most terrible modulation of the human voice. The laughter of one asleep, even if it be a little child,— the madman’s laugh,— the wild, screaming laugh of a born idiot,— are sounds that we sometimes tremble to hear, and would always willingly forget. Poets have imagined no utterance of fiends or hobgoblins so fearfully appropriate as a laugh. And even the obtuse lime-burner felt his nerves shaken, as this strange man looked inward at his own heart, and burst into laughter that rolled away into the night, and was indistinctly reverberated among the hills.”
Source: Ethan Brand
“The solitary side of our nature demands leisure for reflection upon subjects on which the dash and whirl of daily business, so long as its clouds rise thick about us, forbid the intellect to fasten itself.”
Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects
“The solitary speaks."One receives as a reward for much ennui , ill-humour and boredom, such as a solitude without friends, books, duties or passions must entail, one harvests those quarters of an hour of the deepest immersion in oneself and nature. He who completely entrenches himself against boredom also entrenches himself against himself: he will never get to drink the most potent refreshing draught from the deepest well of his own being.”
Source: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
“The solitude and peace of mind are serving me quite well, not the least of which is due to the excellent and truly enjoyable relationship with my cousin; its stability will be guaranteed by the avoidance of marriage.”
Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein
“The solitude lends much appeal, because a sea without a harbour surrounds it. Even a modest boat can find few anchorage, and nobody can go ashore unnoticed by the guards. Its winter is mild because it is enclosed by a range of mountains which keeps out the fierce temperature; its summer is unequal. The open sea is very pleasant and it has a view of a beautiful bay.”
“The solitude of the poet is the uniqueness of his experience, and the particulaity of his sensitivity and imagination.”
“The solitude of the sea intensifies the thoughts and the facts of one's experience which seems to lie at the very centre of the world, as the ship which carries one always remains the centre figure of the round horizon.”
Source: Chance
“The solitude of writing is a solitude without which writing could not be produced, or would crumble, drained bloodless by the search for something else to write.”
Source: Writing
“The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It's quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.”
Source: Conversations with Nadine Gordimer
“The solo is a nuanced distillation of sorrow.”
“The solo years have been more meaningful to the audiences than the Smiths years, but the press in England only write about me in relation to the Smiths era.”