T Quotes
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“The very definition of what it means to be alone has changed. To be physically alone is still relatively easy, but many of us struggle daily to turn off e-mail, computers, or cell phones... Our students...find requests not to text during these activities strange, annoying, and downright silly.”
Source: Teaching Naked: How Moving Technology Out of Your College Classroom Will Improve Student Learning
“The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.”
Source: Hopes and Prospects
“The very design of the gospel doth tend to self-abasing; and the work of grace is begun and carried on in humiliation. Humility is not a mere ornament of a Christian, but an essential part of the new creature: it is a contradiction to be a sanctified man, or a true Christian, and not humble.”
Source: The Practical Works of Richard Baxter: With a Preface, Giving Some Account of the Author, and of this Edition of His Practical Works; an Essay on His Genius, Works and Times; and a Portrait : in Four Volumes
“The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past.”
Source: Political Ideas in the Romantic Age: Their Rise and Influence on Modern Thought
“The very desire to be certain,to be secure,is the beginning of bondage.It's only when the mind is not caught in the net of certainty,and is not seeking certainty, that it is in a state of discovery.”
Source: Commentaries on Living 1
“The very desire to seek spiritual enlightenment is in fact nothing but the grasping tendency of the ego itself, and thus the very search for enlightenment prevents it. The 'perfect practice' is therefore not to search for enlightenment but to inquire into the motive for seeking itself. You obviously seek in order to avoid the present, and yet the present alone holds the answer: to seek forever is to miss the point forever. You always already are enlightened Spirit, and therefore to seek Spirit is simply to deny Spirit.”
“The very difference of character in marriage produces a harmonious combination.”
“The very discovery of the New world was the by-product of a dietary quest.”
“The very discovery of these hidden things is in itself a purifying experience! The soul needs to discover what is inside. The self nature needs to see what it really is, and what it is like-right to the very bottom.”
“The very dogs were all asleep, and the flies, drunk with moist sugar in the grocer's shop, forgot their wings and briskness, and baked to death in dusty corners of the window.”
Source: The Old Curiosity Shop: And Reprinted Pieces
“The very dull truth is that writing love scenes is the same as writing other scenes - your job is to be fully engaged in the character's experience. What does this mean to them? How are they changed by it, or not? I remember being a little nervous, as I am when writing any high-stakes, intense scene (death, sex, grief, joy).”
“The very earliest people who made film were magicians.”
“The very effort to forget teaches us to remember.”
Source: Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides ...
“The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health, or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.”
Source: Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not
“The very emphasis of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill, makes it certain that we are descended from an endlessly long chain of generations of murderers, whose love of murder was in their blood as it is perhaps also in ours.”
Source: Reflections
“The very energy sources that have gotten us to where we are now are also, if we continue doing what we're doing, a shortcut to the end of all that we hold near and dear.”
“The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and not for the benefit of an individual or a party.”
Source: The Works of John C. Calhoun Volume 2
“The very essence of architecture consists of a variety and development reminiscent of natural organic life. This is the only true style in architecture”
“The very essence of capitalism is under threat as business is now seen as a personal wealth accumulator. We have to bring this world back to sanity and put the greater good ahead of self-interest. We need to fight very hard to create an environment out there that is more long term focussed and move away from short termism.”
“The very essence of civilized culture is that we deliberately institute, in advance of the happening of various contingencies and emergencies of life, devices for detecting their approach and registering their nature, for warding off what is unfavorable or at least for protecting ourselves from its full impact.”
“The very essence of democracy is that every person represents all the varied interests which compose the nation.”
Source: India of My Dreams
“The very essence of democracy is the absolute faith that while people must cooperate, the first function of democracy, its peculiar gift, is to develop each individual into everything that he might be.”
“The very essence of gravity was design, and, consequently, deceit; it was a taught trick to gain credit of the world for more sense end knowledge than a man was worth; and that with all its pretensions it was no better, but often worse, than what a French wit had long ago defined it--a mysterious carriage of the body to cover the defects of the mind.”
Source: The Works of Laurence Sterne, in One Volume
“The very essence of I is being killed by You.”
Source: The Warrior
“The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.”
Source: The Descent of Man: the Evolution
“The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.”
“The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.”
“The very essence of martial arts is the thirst for knowledge and the truth about ourselves.”
“The very essence of meditation is to be so silent that there is no stirring of thoughts in you, that words don't come between you and reality, that the whole net of words falls down, that you are left alone. This aloneness, this purity, this unclouded sky of your being is meditation.”
“The very essence of our civilization is that we give a paramount place to morality in all our affairs, public or private.”
Source: India of My Dreams
“The very essence of playfulness is an openness to anything that may happen, the feeling that whatever happens, it's okay... you're either free to play, or you're not.”
“The very essence of politeness is to take care that by our words and actions we make other people pleased with us as well as with themselves.”
“The very essence of politeness seems to be to take care that by our words and actions we make other people pleased with us as well as with themselves.”
“The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest.”
Source: Laicus: Or, The Experiences of a Layman in a Country Parish
“The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”
Source: Epigrams of Oscar Wilde
“The very essence of school is elitism. Schools exist to teach, to test, to rank hierarchically to promote the idea that knowing and understanding more is better than knowing and understanding less.”
Source: In Defense of Elitism
“The very essence of spirituality is that it purifies your lower self, awaken your spiritual heart, and open your breast to receive god's theophanies.”
“The very essence of success is practice.”
“The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.”
Source: On becoming a person: a therapist's view of psychotherapy
“The very essence of the Sufi spiritual tradition requires you to purify your heart, to liberate yourself from your ego and to be courageous in facing any corrupt power, injustice and oppression. Unfortunately, colonial powers pushed an agenda by using Sufism against resistance, and some ulama played that game in the past and in the present.”
“The very essence of truth is plainness and brightness; the darkness and crookedness is our own. The wisdom of God created understanding, fit and proportionable to truth, the object and end of it, as the eye to the thing visible. If our understanding have a film of ignorance over it, or be blear with gazing on other false glitterings, what is that to truth?”
Source: The Prose Works of John Milton ...: With a Preface, Preliminary Remarks, and Notes
“The very essence of your Being is infinite, eternal silence. It is your true nature. It is the essence of all existence.”
“The very essence of your true self is the ability to recognize what you think is not always what you may feel.The heart is the slave~bns”
“The very exercise of leadership fosters capacity for it.”
Source: Ordeal by Battle
“The very existence of a man is a great mystery.”
“The very existence of armaments and great armies psychologically accustoms us to accept the philosophy of militarism. They inevitably increase fear and hate in the world.”
“The very existence of flamethrowers proves that sometime, somewhere, someone said to themselves, "You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done".”
“The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior of those who are not, so long he is the repository of power.”
“The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man”
“The very existence of social media is predicated on humankind's primitive drive of attention seeking. And when they successfully monetize your attention, they end up with billions of dollars and you end up with a screwed up mental state. And if we don't do anything about it now, the next generation will be a generation of mentally unstable glass creatures.”
Source: Good Scientist: When Science and Service Combine