T Quotes
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“The task of the political philosopher can only be to influence public opinion, not to organize people for action. He will do so effectively only if he is not concerned with what is now politically possible but consistently defends the "general principles which are always the same." In this sense I doubt whether there can be such a thing as a conservative political philosophy. Conservatism may often be a useful practical maxim, but it does not give us any guiding principles which can influence long-range developments.”
“The task of the positional player is systematically to accumulate slight advantages and try to convert temporary advantages into permanent ones, otherwise the player with the better position runs the risk of losing it.”
“The task of the proletariat is to create a still more powerful fatherland with a far greater power of resistance, the Republican United States of Europe, as the foundation of the United States of the World.”
Source: The Bolsheviki and world peace
“The task of the prophet is not to smooth things over but to make things right.”
“The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes.”
“The task of the right eye is to peer into the telescope, while the left eye peers into the microscope.”
“The task of the software development team is to engineer the illusion of simplicity.”
Source: Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with Applications
“The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary.”
“The task of the strategist and leadership team is to reduce uncertainty in the areas that they can directly influence in order to pursue attractively difficult objectives.”
Source: The Strategy Book ePub eBook: How to Think and Act Strategically to Deliver Outstanding Results
“The task of the teacher of the Bible is to open up what’s closed, to make plain what is obscure, to unravel what is knotted and to unfold what is tightly packed.”
“The task of understanding is not to replicate in conceptual form something that already exists, but rather to create a wholly new realm, that together with the world given to our senses constitutes the fullness of reality.”
“The task of universal pragmatics is to identify and reconstruct universal conditions of possible mutual understanding.”
“The task of worrying is to come up with positive solutions for life's perils by anticipating dangers before they arise. If we are preoccupied by worries, we have that must less attention to expend on figuring out the answers. Our worries become self-fulfilling prophecies, propelling us toward the very disaster they predict.”
“The task of youth is not only its own salvation but the salvation of those against whom it rebels, but in that case there must be something vital to rebel against and if the elderly stiffly refuse to put up a vigorous front of their own, it leaves the entire situation in a mist.”
Source: The second twenty years at Hull-House, September 1909 to September 1929, with a record of a growing world consciousness
“The task of youth is not only its own salvation but the salvation of those against whom it rebels.”
Source: The second twenty years at Hull-House, September 1909 to September 1929, with a record of a growing world consciousness
“The task that has fallen to us as Americans is to move the conscience of the world, to keep alive the hope and dream of freedom. For if we fail or falter, there'll be no place for the world's oppressed to flee to. This is not a role we sought. We preach no manifest destiny. But like the Americans who brought a new nation into the world 200 years ago, history has asked much of us in our time. Much we've already given; much more we must be prepared to give.”
Source: Ronald Reagan
“The task that lies before me is daunting and the rewards are uncertain. I should probably let someone else do it.”
“The task that we face today is to understand the language of nature.”
“The task we all face as human beings ... is to find and become who we are. The task teachers face is to find their own way of teaching, one that manifests who they are.”
Source: Walking on Water: Reading, Writing, and Revolution
“The task we are burdened with is not just a burden but a privilege and joy. In serving kids, we get to see the true reality of the gospel.”
Source: God's Family Now: A New Look At Kids' Ministry
“The task we face is reorganizing the systems we depend on for daily life in a way that is consistent with the realities coming down at us.”
“The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.”
“The task which we have set ourselves is simply to show why and for what purpose we hold that standpoint during most of our lives, and why and for what purpose we are provisionally obliged to abandon it.”
Source: The Analysis of Sensations: And the Relation of the Physical to the Psychical
“The task will not be finished till all humans become the personification of civilization.”
Source: Solo Standing on Guard: Life Before Law
“The taste death cannot comes from the recipy of cowerdness.”
“The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading. They took his taper away, and he bred glow-worms to serve his purpose. They took the glow-worms away, and he almost burnt the house down with a tinder. To put it in a nutshell, leaving the novelist to smooth out the crumpled silk and all its implications, he was a nobleman afflicted with a love of literature. Many people of his time, still more of his rank, escaped the infection and were thus free to run or ride or make love at their own sweet will. But some were early infected by a germ said to be bred of the pollen of the asphodel and to be blown out of Greece and Italy, which was of so deadly a nature that it would shake the hand as it was raised to strike, and cloud the eye as it sought its prey, and make the tongue stammer as it declared its love. It was the fatal nature of this disease to substitute a phantom for reality, so that Orlando, to whom fortune had given every gift--plate, linen, houses, men-servants, carpets, beds in profusion--had only to open a book for the whole vast accumulation to turn to mist. The nine acres of stone which were his house vanished; one hundred and fifty indoor servants disappeared; his eighty riding horses became invisible; it would take too long to count the carpets, sofas, trappings, china, plate, cruets, chafing dishes and other movables often of beaten gold, which evaporated like so much sea mist under the miasma. So it was, and Orlando would sit by himself, reading, a naked man.”
“The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading. They took his taper away, and he bred glow-worms to serve his purpose. They took the glow-worms away and he almost burnt the house down with a tinder.”
Source: Orlando: A Biography
“The taste for glory can make ordinary men behave in extraordinary ways.”
Source: House of the Tiger King, Dyslexic edition
“The taste for pleasure attaches us to the present. The concern with our salvation leaves us hanging on the future.”
“The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.”
Source: On photography
“The taste for resin can be aquired, but there is no need to aquire it”
“The taste for splendor is hardly ever combined in the same souls with the taste for the honorable.”
Source: The Major Political Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Two
“The taste for well-being is the prominent and indelible feature of democratic times.”
Source: Democracy in America
“The taste for worst-case scenarios reflects the need to master fear of what is felt to be uncontrollable. It also expresses an imaginative complicity with disaster.”
“The taste forever refines in the study of women.”
Source: Rural Letters and Other Records of Thought at Leisure: Written in the Intervals of More Hurried Literary Labor
“The taste of a fruit for a king and a pauper is the same.”
“The taste of blood and that annoying sting of a bitten tongue. Once man got the taste of blood there was no going back, like a serpent circling itself eating its own tail.”
“The taste of chocolate is a sensual pleasure in itself, existing in the same world as sex... For myself, I can enjoy the wicked pleasure of chocolate... entirely by myself. Furtiveness makes it better.”
“The taste of death is upon my lips. I feel something that is not of this earth.”
“The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own.”
Source: Life on the Run
“The taste of democracy becomes a bitter taste when the fullness of democracy is denied.”
“The taste of life, the taste for life. That is never satisfied. That never can be satisfied, because life even as we are in the very act of living it, is so ravenously hungering after itself, that it never lets itself be fully tasted. The taste for life comes to us from the past, from the memories that hold us bound, but bound to what? To this folly of ours? To this mass of vexations? To so many stupid illusions? To so many insipid occupations?”
“The taste of love is always amazing; even when it’s bitter”
“The taste of love is determined by the sufferings of this sentimental experience. Love with less or no suffering can not be so nourishing for the mind.”
“The taste of moon is like honey to all honeymooners, but after some years does the moon's scar make it bitter?”
“The taste of moon's song.”
Source: Bonemeal
“The taste of people with large bank accounts tends not to be on the cutting edge.”
“The taste of rain -- Why kneel?”
Source: Book of Blues
“The taste of something red as blood and black as tar coats my tongue.”
Source: Dead Cowpokes Don't Wrangle: A Weird West Anthology
“The taste of success is different when no one believes you.”