T Quotes
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“The stated objective and the mission of Vladimir Putin's Russia is to destabilize the North Atlantic Alliance.”
“The stately heavens which glory doth array, are mirrors of God's admirable might; there, whence forth spreads the night, forth springs the day. He fix'd the fountains of this temporal light, where stately stars enstall'd, some stand, some stray, all sparks of his great power (though small) yet bright. By what none utter can, no, not conceive. All of his greatness, shadows may perceive.”
“The Stately Homes of England, How beautiful they stand, To prove the Upper Classes, Have still the Upper Hand.”
“The stately Homes of England,How beautiful they stand!Amidst their tall ancestral trees,O'er all the pleasant land.”
“The stately tuberose is reluctant to share its effusive scent, yielding only to enfleurage- petals pressed into fat between glass, rinsed in alcohol. The carnal charisma of tuberose, one of the perfumer's most expensive essential oils, heightens the white floral bouquet, lifting it up on angels' wings. -DB”
Source: Scent of Triumph
“The statement "I am in pain" may be one piece of evidence for the conclusion that the speaker is in pain, but it is not the only possible evidence, and since people sometimes tell lies, not even the best possible evidence. Even if there were stronger grounds for refusing to attribute pain to those who do not have language, the consequences of this refusal might lead us to reject the conclusion. Human infants and young children are unable to use language. Are we to deny that a year-old child can suffer?”
Source: Animal liberation: a new ethics for our treatment of animals
“The statement clearly shows the refusal of the Vatican II papacy to use its authority; things happen "automatically", and those who act bring judgement on themselves (but only on the side of tradition; modernist and progressive churchmen just go on their crazy way with an occasional "tut-tut" from Rome; they are moving in the right direction, only running too fast).”
Source: The Horn of the Unicorn
“The statement ‘He adopted the shooters stance’ is a police officer’s license to kill.”
“The statement I made in regard to, "Will can do whatever he wants," has illuminated the need to discuss the relationship between trust and love and how they co-exist...Should we be married to individuals who can not be responsible for themselves and their families within their freedom? Should we be in relationships with individuals who we can not entrust to their own values, integrity, and LOVE...for us??? Here is how I will change my statement...Will and I BOTH can do WHATEVER we want, because we TRUST each other to do so. This does NOT mean we have an open relationship...this means we have a GROWN one.”
“The statement 'I thought he was reaching for a gun' is a police officers license to kill.”
“The statement I wanted to make was that it makes no sense to put these real-life women into one limited template, so why then are we doing it to our fictitious heroines?”
“The statement is that I’m not one icon. I’m every icon. I’m an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time.”
“The statement of ideas in a poem may have to do with logic. More profoundly, it may be identified with the emotional progression of the poem, in terms of the music and images, so that the poem is alive throughout. Another, more fundamental statement in poetry, is made through the images themselves those declarations, evocative, exact, and musical, which move through time and are the actions of a poem.”
“The statement that 'God is dead' comes from Nietzsche and has recently been trumpeted abroad by some German and American theologians. But the good Lord has not died of this; He who dwells in the heaven laughs at them.”
Source: Letters, 1961-1968
“The statement that 'abortions is a women's choice over her body' is a half-truth, because there are two heart+beats, not one.”
“The statement that either God is the ultimate cause of the Universe or that the Universe appeared from nothing contains falsity because there is a third modality, which is that the Universe may have created itself. But, if the Universe has created itself, it had existed before its creation. If it existed before, what would be the difference between this Being and God, or would it mean that this Being is something we traditionally have chosen to call God?”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“The statement that either God is the ultimate cause of the Universe or that the Universe appeared from nothing contains falsity because there is a third modality, which is that the Universe may have created itself. But, if the Universe has created itself, it had existed before its creation. If it existed before, what would be the difference between this Being and God, or would it mean that this Being is something we traditionally have chosen to call God?
If there was Something, the Being, before the world's creation, the Being was uncreated. This uncreated Being is traditionally called God. The uncreated Being is the source of all creation, with the help of emptiness or absolute void. In that case, the Universe itself would be the Self-Creator, its own God.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“The statement that the essence of the human being consists in being-inthe-world likewise contains no decision aboutwhether the human being in a
theologico-metaphysical sense is merely a this-worldly or an other-worldly
Creature.
115th the existential determination of the essence of the human being,
therefore, nothing is decided about the "existence of God" or his "nonbeing," no more than about the possibility or impossibility of gods. Thus
it is not only rash hut also an error in procedure to maintain that the interpretation of the essence of the human being from the relation of his
essence to the mth of being is atheism. And what is more, this arbitrary
classification betrays a lack of careful reading. No one bothers to notice
that in my essay "On the Essence of Ground" (1929) the following appears
(,,, 2~, note I): "Through the ontological interpretation of Dasein as beingin-the-world no decision, whether positive or neptive, is made concerning
a possible being toward God. It is, however, the case that through an illumi-
.,tion of transcendence we first achieve nn adeqrcnte concept of Dnsein, with
respect to which it can now he asked how the relationship of Dasein to God
is ontologically ordered." If we think about this remark too quickly, as is
usually the case, we will declare that such a philosophy does not decide either for or against the existence of God. It remains stalled in indifference.
~hus it is unconcerned with the religious question. Such indifferentism
falls prey to nihilism.
Rut does the foregoing observation teach indifferentism? Why then
are particular words in the note italicized - and not just random ones? For
no other reason than to indicate that the thinking that thinks from the
question concerning the uuth of being questions more primordially than
metaphysics can. Only from the truthofbeing can the essence of the holy he
thought. [I~z] Only from the essence of the holy is the essence of divinity
to he thought. Only in the light of the essence of divinity can it be thought
or said what the word "God" is to signify. Or should we not first be able
to hear and understand all these words carefully if we are to be permirted
as human beings, that is, as eksistent creatures, to experience a relation of
God to human beings? How can the human being at the present stage of
world history ask at all seriously and rigorously whether the god nears or
withdraws, when he has above all neglected to think into the dimension
in which alone that question can be asked? But this is the dimension of
the holy, which indeed remains closed as a dimension if the open region of
being is not cleared and in its clearing is near to humans. Perhaps what is
distinctive about this world-epoch consists in the closure of the dimension
of the hale [des Heilen]. Perhaps that is the sole malignancy [Unheil].
But with this reference the thinking that points toward the truth of
I)eing as what is to be thought has in no way decided in favor of theism. It
can he theistic as little as atheistic. Not, however, because of an indifferent
attitude, hutoutofrespect forthe boundaries that have heen set forthinking
as such, indeed set by what gives itself to thinking as what is to be thought,
1)). the truth of being. Insofar as thinking limits itself to its task it tlirects
the human being at the present moment of the world's destiny into the
primordial dimension of his historical abode.”
“The statement ‘The dispatcher told me he had a gun’ is a police officer’s license to kill.”
“The statement “this is all the farther I can go” is in fact code for “this is all the farther I’m willing to go.” And if I want to go nowhere in life, all I have to do is keep confusing these two statements.”
“The statement ‘We will rebuild’ can be a form of insanity.”
“The statement, "The debt problem has become so extreme that we have no choice but to cut social spending" is presented as an objective assessment of our situation. But can you imagine a media commentator making the following assertion? "The debt problem has become so extreme that we have no choice but to raise taxes on the rich."”
“The statements of atheists ought to be perfectly clear of doubt. Now it is not perfectly clear that the soul is material.”
Source: Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects
“The statements of certain western officials show that contrary to their absurd claims, westerners are disqualified, and impetuous, lacking any cultural background.”
“The Staten Island Ferry remains a potential terrorist target.”
“The States acceded to the Union.”
“The States are great. I'd like to go just to see life, see things and hear people talk. It's like a circus where different acts go on at the same time.”
“The States are nations.”
“The States are separate and independent sovereigns. Sometimes they need to act like it.”
“The states can make the finest contribution to the building of India's future independence if they set the right example in their own territories.”
Source: Gandhi on Nehru
“The States has more publishers and a wider range of aesthetics but so much more competition - the amount of writers vying for the same spot as you is staggering. I think they're different challenges, but equally frustrating when you're trying to get your foot in the door.”
“The states have authority to interpret the Constitution, enforce it, and protect the people from violations of it by the federal government In the first place, there is not a syllable in the plan under consideration which directly empowers the national courts to construe the laws according to the spirit of the Constitution, or which gives them any greater latitude in this respect than may be claimed by the courts of every State.”
“The states have the authority to change this voting system for president, right now, in fact, if they wanted, on an emergency basis, they could adopt a ranked-choice system, which simply allows you to go to the poll, and rather than rolling your dice and deciding whether to vote your values or your fears, you get to rank your choices, knowing that if your first choice loses your vote is automatically assigned to your second choice. It's kind of a no-brainer system. It works very well.”
“The states in which we infuse a transfiguration and a fullness into things and poetize about them until they reflect back our fullness and joy in life... three elements principally: sexuality, intoxication and cruelty all belonging to the oldest festal joys.”
“The states is where resistance is opposition to Obamacare is taking place. The states is where tax reform is taking place, starting. The states is where whatever opposition to the latest crisis of the day is, be it health care, immigration, or guns. The states - the majority of which have Republican governors - are where this is all being dealt with, and you're not hearing about it. They don't get a lot of press coverage, but that's where this is happening.”
“The states of birth, suffering, love, and death, are extreme states: extreme, universal, and inescapable. We all know this, but we would rather not know it. The artist is present to correct the delusions to which we are all prey in our attempts to avoid this knowledge." - James Baldwin, "The Creative Process”
“The states of consciousness are all that psychology needs to do her work with. Metaphysics or theology may prove the Soul to exist; but for psychology the hypothesis of such a substantial principle of unity is superfluous.”
Source: Psychology, Briefer Course
“The States separately have very inadequate ideas of the present danger. Party disputes and personal quarrels are the great business of the day, whilst the concerns of the nation are secondary.”
“The States should be urged to concede to the General Government, with a saving of chartered rights, the exclusive power of establishing banks of discount for paper.”
Source: Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson
“The States should be watchful to note every material usurpation on their rights; to denounce them as they occur in the most peremptory terms; to protest against them as wrongs to which our present submission shall be considered, not as acknowledgments or precedents of rights, but as a temporary yielding to the lesser evil, until their accumulation shall overweigh that of separation.”
Source: Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late President of the United States
“The States still has the best audiences by far.”
“The States then being the parties to the constitutional compact, and in their sovereign capacity, it follows of necessity, that there can be no tribunal above their authority, to decide in the last resort, whether the compact made by them be violated; and consequently that as the parties to it, they must themselves decide in the last resort, such questions as may be of sufficient magnitude to require their interposition.”
Source: 1829-1836
“The States were much more fun. L.A. was L.A. It's not L.A. now. L.A. infested with jaded 12-year-olds is not the L.A. that I really dug.”
“The States which form the northern border of the United States westward from the Great Lakes to the Pacific coast include an area several times larger than France and could contain ten Englands and still have room to spare.”
Source: The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States
“The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false.”
“The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them.”
“The statesman who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals would not only load himself with most unnecessary attention but assume an authority which could safely be trusted to no council and senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of man who have folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it.”
Source: The Wealth of Nations: Representative Selections
“The statesman who yields to war fever must realise that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.”
“The statesman's task is to hear God's footsteps marching through history, and to try and catch on to His coattails as He marches past.”
“The statesman, lawyer, merchant, man of trade
Pants for the refuge of some rural shade,
Where all his long anxieties forgot
Amid the charms of a sequester'd spot,
Or recollected only to gild o'er
And add a smile to what was sweet before,
He may possess the joys he thinks he sees,
Lay his old age upon the lap of ease,
Improve the remnant of his wasted span.
And having lived a trifler, die a man.”
Source: Poems, with a memoir of the author