T Quotes
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“To ask the right questions is to not look for an answer. And as such, the right questions to ask are the ones that give us a better understanding.
The ones that get us closer to an answer but not the answer. Perfect conditions do not exist in the real world as everything continuously changes, and the context shifts with time, and our bias colors it.”
Source: Reality Check: In Pursuit of the Right Questions
“To ask them to legalize pot is something like asking them to put butter on the handcuffs before they place them on you: something else is hurting you—that's why you need pot, or whiskey, or whips and rubber suits, or screaming music turned so fucking loud you can't think. Or madhouses or mechanical cunts or 162 baseball games in a season. Or Vietnam or Israel or the fear of spiders.”
Source: Tales of Ordinary Madness
“To ask too much is the way to be denied all.”
“To ask what the limits of our imagination are suggests that we firmly believe in limits, but we don’t have much faith in imagination.”
“To ask whether the mainstream media has a conservative or liberal bias is like asking whether al-Qaida uses too much oil in their hummus. It's - I think they might use too much oil in their hummus - but it's the wrong question.”
“To ask whether the natural rights philosophy of the Declaration of Independence is true or false, is essentially a meaningless question.”
Source: Declaration of Independence: A Study in the History of Political Ideas
“To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality.”
“To ask, 'How do you do it?' is already starting off on the wrong foot. When reaching for the stars, there does not have to be a 'how' if there is a big enough 'why'.”
Source: Killosophy
“To aspire to be superhuman is a most discreditable admission that you lack the guts, the wit, the moderating judgment to be successfully and consummately human.”
Source: Collected Works: Do what you will
“To aspire to utopia at all cost, especially at the cost of freedom, is to seal your fate either to live bitter and frustrated with the impossible quest.”
“To aspiring writers, I say : Don't give up. Storytelling has been an integral part of the human condition since the beginning of time. Don't let anyone tell you your dreams don't have value. They do.”
“To aspiring writers, I would tell them that we live in a wonderful time where you're able to make your work visible, easily. If you think about it, even ten years ago or twenty years ago, there was a middle man, there was a publisher, there were studios, there was this world of rejection letters. Now, we're in a place where we have the technology and the ability to go shoot our own movies or to put stuff on YouTube or a blog, if you're a writer, or self-publish.”
“To assault the total culture totally is to be free to use all the fruits of mankind's wisdom and experience without the rotten structure in which these glories are encased and encrusted.”
“To assert dignity is to lose it.”
Source: The League of Frightened Men
“To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.”
“To assert that it is possible to establish peace between men of different nations is simply to assert that man, whatever his ethnical background, his race, religious beliefs, or philosophy, is capable of reason. Two forces within the individual contribute to the development of his conscience and of his morality: reason and sensitivity.”
“To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin".”
“To assert that the universe has a purpose implies the universe has intent. And intent implies a desired outcome. But who would do the desiring? And what would a desired outcome be? That carbon-based life is inevitable? Or that sentient primates are life's neurological pinnacle? Are answers to these questions even possible without expressing a profound bias of human sentiment? Of course humans were not around to ask these questions for 99.9999% of cosmic history. So if the purpose of the universe was to create humans then the cosmos was embarrassingly inefficient about it.”
“To assert that we desire to bring about revolution in other countries, by interfering with their lives, is to speak of something which does not exist and which we never preach.”
“To assess the damage is a dangerous act.”
Source: Loving in the war years: lo que nunca pasó por sus labios
“To assess the intelligence of a committee, divide the IQ of its stupidest member by the number of members.”
“To assess the quality of thoughts of people, don't listen to their words, but watch their actions.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“To assign to everybody his proper place in society is the task of the consumers. Their buying and abstention from buying is instrumental in determining each individual's social position.”
Source: Human Action
“To assign unanswered letters their proper weight, to free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves--there lies the great, the singular power of self-respect. Without it, one eventually discovers the final turn of the screw: one runs away to find oneself, and finds no one at home.”
“To assist a child we must provide him with an environment which will enable him to develop freely.”
“To assist him in his duties there was a rather large police force which did nothing but extract confessions, mostly from squirrels.”
Source: Bored of the Rings: A Parody of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings
“To associate with other like-minded people in small, purposeful groups is for the great majority of men and women a source of profound psychological satisfaction. Exclusiveness will add to the pleasure of being several, but at one; and secrecy will intensify it almost to ecstasy.”
Source: Complete Essays: 1930-1935
“To assume a cat's asleep is a grave mistake. He can close his eyes and keep both his ears awake.”
“To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.”
“To assume that a bigger pipeline is a better pipeline is a dangerous assumption.”
“To assume that all knowledge is accessible to the instruments of science or human logic is to hold this existence to the confines of both.”
“To assume that His plan fails and that he strives to no effect is to reduce Him to the level of His creatures and make Him no God at all.”
“To assume that I and I alone have all the answers is to eventually find myself entirely alone without any answers.”
“To assume that I can even begin to chart a ‘straight’ path is probably the best way I can take myself ‘straight’ to the very place I don’t want to go.”
“To assume that one's existential task is completed when the individual is brought into right relation with society, that is, when the individual has been socialized, is to absolutize society and confuse society with God.”
Source: Kierkegaard's Critique of Reason and Society
“To assume that wealth or sexuality or the usage of power, any of these things are not void in nature, gives them a reality they don't actually have.”
“To assume the best about another is the trait that has created modern society. Those occasions when our trusting nature gets violated are tragic. But the alternative - to abandon trust as a defense against predation and deception - is worse.”
Source: Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know
“To assume the gospel in one generation is to lose it in the next.”
“To assume you know someone well enough that you can and do predict their behavior and mental perspective is a gross and often tragic mistake, for it eliminates that person's freedom to create his or her own opinion and drastically affects the emerging picture of the relationship.”
“To assure him, Peter Lim decided that the newsroom adopt this approach: it was better to produce the best story than the first story. He had good reason. Finding scoops in a Singapore with many OB markers carried a real risk: the story was sometimes incomplete or, as in the case of the bus fare increase, premature. For completeness, you sometimes incomplete or, as in the case of the bus fare increase, premature. For completeness, you sometimes had to rely on official spokesmen. But once they knew you were on the story, they either prevailed on the editors to hold it until the time was right to release it, or gave it to every newspaper. The edict went against the grain. No journalist could resist the temptation to be first with the news.”
Source: OB Markers: My Straits Times Story
“To assure the prosperity of a firm should be a long-term strategy and the turnover of key managers should be taken into account from the stand point of long-term consideration and not from the monthly or quarterly flavors.”
“To atone, I teach and try to set an example... I love spreading this stuff around. Just because it's trite doesn't mean it isn't right. In fact, I like to say, 'If it's trite, it's right.'”
“To attach full confidence to an institution of this nature, it appears to be an essential ingredient in its structure, that it shall be under private and not a public direction-under the guidance of individual interest, not of public policy; which, would be . . . liable to being too much influenced by public necessity.”
Source: The Vision of Hamilton: Hamilton's 4 Reports and LaRouche's 4 Laws
“To attach no importance to public opinion, is a proof that you do not merit its suffrage.”
“To attack and defend,
each soul treads the path of loss,
allies entwined with adversaries,
the delicate dance of afterglow and shroud.
In this fragile balance, we falter,
as we seek to delineate foes,
to knit chaos from the fabric of silence,
where hearts clash in unspoken truths.”
Source: Interrelation and Other Works
“To attack terrorism, firstly attack the ignorance which is the greatest source of terrorism! Attack the ignorance worldwide because ignorance often creates sick minds!”
“To attain "success" without attaining positive self-esteem is to be condemned to feeling like an imposter anxiously awaiting exposure.”
Source: A Woman's Self-Esteem: Struggles and Triumphs in the Search for Identity
“To attain, and to keep, a professional-managerial job requires class-specific human capital. Developing and displaying that capital is a central preoccupation of upper-middle class life.”
Source: Facing Social Class: How Societal Rank Influences Interaction
“To attain Buddhahood ... we must scatter this life's aims and objects to the wind.”
“To attain eternal happiness one must suffer. He who has reached the state of self-sacrifice has true joy. Temporal joy will vanish.”