T Quotes
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“To a man the greatest blessing is individual liberty; to a dog it is the last word in despair.”
“To a man utterly without a sense of belonging, mere life is all that matters. It is the only reality in an eternity of nothingness, and he clings to it with shameless despair.”
Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer
“To a man who has not succeeded we say 'You made a mistake'.
To a man who ha lost at the lottery, 'You had bad luck'.”
Source: Gauguin's Intimate Journals
“To a man who is uncorrupt and properly constituted, woman always remains something of a mystery and a romance. He never interprets her quite literally. She, on her part, is always striving to remain a poem, and is never weary of bringing out new editions of herself in novel bindings.”
Source: Smoking and Drinking
“To a man who was required to marry before he was allowed to have sex with his lover, marriage is a ‘righteous’ form of prostitution.”
“To a man whose mind is free there is something even more intolerable in the sufferings of animals than in the sufferings of man. For with the latter it is at least admitted that suffering is evil and that the man who causes it is a criminal. But thousands of animals are uselessly butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. If any man were to refer to it, he would be thought ridiculous. And that is the unpardonable crime.”
Source: Jean-Christophe: The market-place
“To a man with an empty stomach food is God”
“To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.”
Source: Armageddon?: essays 1983-1987
“To a mankind that recognizes the equality of man everywhere, every war becomes a civil war.”
“To a materialist life is nothing but a complex self-sustaining pattern, easily disrupted and gone when destroyed.”
“To a materialist, matter is essential: a stone is a stone, a mountain is a mountain, water is water and earth is earth. As far as I am concerned, I am a materialist of the body, which means that the body is the basis of all my work.”
“To a mathematician the eleventh means only a single unit: to the bushman who cannot count further than his ten fingers it is an incalculable myriad.”
Source: George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion
“To a mind like mine, restless, inquisitive, and observant of everything that was passing, it is easy to suppose that religion was the subject to which it would be directed; and, although this subject principally occupied my thoughts, there was nothing that I saw or heard of to which my attention was not directed.”
Source: The Confessions of Nat Turner, the Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southampton, Virginia
“To a mind of sufficient intellectual power, the whole of mathematics would appear trivial, as trivial as the statement that a four-footed animal is an animal.”
Source: The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell
“To a misogynist: To err is woman.”
“To a Mistress Dying Lover. YOUR beauty, ripe and calm and fresh As eastern summers are, Must now, forsaking time and flesh, Add light to some small star. Philosopher. Whilst she yet lives, were stars decay'd, Their light by hers relief might find; But Death will lead her to a shade Where Love is cold and Beauty blind. Lover. Lovers, whose priests all poets are, Think every mistress, when she dies, Is changed at least into a star: And who dares doubt the poet wise? Philosopher. But ask not bodies doom'd to die To what abode they go; Since Knowledge is but Sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know.”
“To a modern mind, it is difficult to feel enthusiastic about a virtuous life if nothing is going to be achieved by it.”
Source: History of Western Philosophy
“To a monster the norm must seem monstrous, since everyone is normal to himself.”
Source: East of Eden
“To a mother, a child is everything; but to a child, a parent is only a link in the chain of her existence.”
Source: Venetia
“To a mouse, cheese is cheese. That is why mouse traps are effective.”
“To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.”
“To a narrative therapist, there are few interactions between couples that are not influenced by patriarchy. If there is an abuse of power in a relationship, a narrative therapist would view the responsibility for the abuse of power as lying in the hands of the person abusing the power. A narrative approach would invite the abuser to Recognize the abuse as abuse. Position himself against it. Accept total responsibility for stopping it.”
Source: Verbally Abusive Relationship
“To a naturalist nothing is indifferent; the humble moss that creeps upon the stone is equally interesting as the lofty pine which so beautifully adorns the valley or the mountain: but to a naturalist who is reading in the face of the rocks the annals of a former world, the mossy covering which obstructs his view, and renders indistinguishable the different species of stone, is no less than a serious subject of regret.”
Source: Theory of the Earth: With Proofs and Illustrations, in Four Parts
“To a new generation of butterflies, hopefully less stupid than last. Maybe they were burgeoning even now in fat little cocoons. Or maybe not.”
“To a newspaperman, a human being is an item with skin wrapped around it.”
“To a nonpainter, oil paint is uninteresting and faintly unpleasant. To a painter, it is the life's blood: a substance so utterly entrancing, infuriating, and ravishingly beautiful that it makes it worthwhile to go back into the studio every morning, year after year, for an entire lifetime.”
Source: What Painting Is
“To a nonstop world, the Rule of Benedict brings balance and simplicity. In the face of a complex world with the twenty-four-hour workdays and constant motion, the Rule asks for a life that deals with a little bit of everything in proper measure: work, prayer, solitude, relationships. The Rule, in other words, is an antidote to excess and to human dwarfism. A proverb says, "Wherever there is excess, something is lacking." The Rule of Benedict mandates a measured life.”
“To a normal person, $10 million will seem like enough. But anyone who thinks that's enough is not the type that can acquire that much in the first place.”
“To a novelist, fluidity is the ultimate good omen; suddenly difficult problems are simply solved, intractable structural knots loosen themselves, and you come upon the key without even recognizing that this is what you hold.”
“To a parent, your child wasn't just a person: your child was a *place*, a kind of Narnia, a vast eternal place where the present you were living and the past you remembered and the future you longed for all existed at once. You could see it every time you looked at her: layered in her face was the baby she'd been and the child she'd become and the adult she would grow up to be, and you saw them all simultaneously, like a 3-D image.”
Source: Little Fires Everywhere
“To a particular person, a particular personality, mind, lifestyle, voice, gait, laugh, salary, penis, or vagina, cannot be interesting for a very long time.”
Source: On Friendship: A Satirical Essay
“To a partisan hammer, every aspect of the 'other' looks like a nail.”
“To a people famishing and idle, the only acceptable form in which God can dare appear is work and promise of food as wages.”
Source: All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections
“To a people warlike and indigent, an incursion into a rich country is never hurtful.”
Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius
“To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.”
Source: Autobiography of values
“To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission. It roots in a bare wisdom that exists in senses more than mind, a wisdom that, in primitive form, evolved the mind which so often overlooks it.”
Source: Autobiography of values
“To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or sea-side stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall. Teach him something of natural history, and you place in his hands a catalogue of those which are worth turning around. Surely our innocent pleasures are not so abundant in this life, that we can afford to despise this or any other source of them.”
“To a person who expects every desert to be barren sand dunes, the Sonoran must come as a surprise. Not only are there no dunes, there's no sand. At least not the sort of sand you find at the beach. The ground does have a sandy color to it, or gray, but your feet won't sink in. It's hard, as if it's been tamped. And pebbly. And glinting with -- what else -- mica.”
“To a pessimist, losing bobby pins is as hopeless as losing hair.
To an optimist, losing hair gives hope to get the lost bobby pins back.”
“To a philosopher no circumstance, however trifling, is too minute.”
Source: The Citizen of the World; Or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, Residing in London, to His Friends in the East
“To a philosophic eye, the vices of the clergy are far less dangerous than their virtues.”
Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
“To a physician, each man, each woman, is an amplification of one organ.”
Source: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life
“To a physicist, beauty means symmetry and simplicity. If a theory is beautiful, this means it has a powerful symmetry that can explain a large body of data in the most compact, economical manner. More precisely, and equation is considered to be beautiful if it remains the same when we interchange its components among themselves.”
Source: Parallel Worlds: A Journey through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos
“To a physicist life looks nothing short of a miracle. It's just amazing what living things can do.”
“To a physicist, we have the 'I' word, the I-word is 'impossible.' That's dangerous.”
“To a pitcher, a base hit is the perfect example of negative feedback.”
“To a poet, his works aren't just a reflection of life itself, but an entire life in the boundless invisible. Isn't the heavenly oasis of all human emotions - the soul - invisible? I reaped: We cannot see the wind, but we can feel it, we cannot see the warmth of the sun, but we can also feel it. This bond between nature and humans is the best proof of the Creator’s existence.”
“To a poet nothing can be useless.”
Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq
“To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth…but only a problem of art is solved in poetry.”
“To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.”