T Quotes
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“To be free one must be a slave to reason. But to be a slave to reason (the very condition of freedom) exposes one to both the revisionary power and the constructive compulsion of reason. This susceptibility is terminally amplified once the commitment to the autonomy of reason and autonomous engagement with discursive practices are sufficiently elaborated. That is to say, when the autonomy of reason is understood as the automation of reason and discursive practices—the philosophical rather than classically symbolic thesis regarding artificial general intelligence.”
“To be free one needs constant and unrelenting vigilance over one's weaknesses. A vigilance which requires a moral energy most of us are incapable of manufacturing. We relax back into the moulds of habit. They are secure, they bind us and keep us contained at the expense of freedom. To break the moulds, to be heedless of the seductions of security is an impossible struggle, but one of the few that count. To be free is to learn, to test yourself constantly, to gamble.”
Source: Tracks
“To be free people we must assume total responsibility for ourselves, but in doing so must possess the capacity to reject responsibility that is not truly ours. To be organized and efficient, to live wisely, we must daily delay gratification and keep an eye on the future; yet to live joyously we must also possess the capacity, when it is not destructive, to live in the present and act spontaneously. In other words, discipline itself must be disciplined. The type of discipline required to discipline discipline is what I call balancing.”
“To be free, we need to open the cages of our concepts. This happens the moment we decide on it.”
Source: IO - HOW TO WIN AT THE GAME OF LIFE
“To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else.”
“To be free, first of all, is to be free from wrong views that are the foundation of all kinds of suffering and fear and violence.”
“To be free, the workers must have choice. To have choice they must retain in their own hands the right to determine under what conditions they will work.”
Source: The American Federationist
“To be free, to be happy and to be fruitful, can only be attained through sacrifice of many common but overestimated things.”
Source: The Art Spirit
“To be free, to come to terms with our lives, we have to have a direct experience of ourselves as we really are, warts and all.”
Source: The Trauma of Everyday Life
“To be free. Such a thing would be greater than all the magic and all the treasures in all the world.”
“To be friends is a beautiful thing, Tessa, and I do not scorn it, but I have hoped for a long time now that we might be more than friends.”
“To be friends.... or not... to be or not... to be or not....”
“To be friends with God means to pray with simplicity, like children talking to their parents.”
Source: The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation
“To be fruitful and productive is to invest in time”
“To be fulfilled, a prophecy needs lots of flexibility.”
“To be full of things is to be empty of God; to be empty of things is to be full of God.”
“To be fully alive, fully human and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. To live fully is to always be in no-man’s-land, to experience each moment as completely new and fresh. To live is to be willing to die over and over again.”
“To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. To live fully is to be always in no-man's-land, to experience each moment as completely new and fresh. To live is to be willing to die over and over again. From the awakened point of view, that's life. Death is wanting to hold on to what you have and to have every experience confirm you and congratulate you and make you feel completely together.”
Source: When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
“To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.”
Source: Working and Thinking on the Waterfront: A Journal, June 1958-May 1959
“To be fully alive, you must never stop dreaming.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“To be fully alive,
you must risk the ground beneath your feet — only then will you understand the freedom
of standing on air.”
“To be fully alive, you need time with God to recharge.”
Source: Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working
“To be fully awake is a choice to face the stark realities that we would much prefer to avoid. And it is this that prompts so many to embrace the slumber of being ‘woke.”
“To be fully human is perhaps why I'm Christian, because I see in the life of Jesus a way of being fully human.”
“To be fully human is to be able to make deliberate choices.”
Source: Cosmogenesis: The Growth of Order in the Universe
“To be fully human is...to know that it's possible to face the unimaginable and somehow put one foot in front of the other.”
“To be fully human, fully myself, To accept all that I am, all that you envision, This is my prayer. Walk with me out to the rim of life, Beyond security. Take me to the exquisite edge of courage And release me to become.”
“To be fully present with what is, is to be content... and to be content is to be blessed by everything that happens in life.”
Source: You Can Have What You Want
“To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.”
Source: The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims
“To be furious in religion is to be irreligiously religious.”
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
“To be furious, is to be frighted out of fear.”
Source: The Beauties of Shakspeare ... By the Rev. William Dodd, LL.D.
“To be gay and out of shape is almost as much of a stigma as just being gay used to be.”
“To be gay is nothing to be proud of. It's in how you are gay that you have something to be proud of, considering the obstacles placed in your path if you are gay.”
“To be generous is the best way to live in this world.”
“To be generous, guiltless, and of a free disposition is to take those things for bird-bolts that you deem cannon-bullets.”
Source: Twelfth Night
“To be gentle and kind, modest and truthful, to be full of faith and integrity, doing no wrong is of God; goodness sheds a halo of loveliness around every person who possesses it, making their countenances beam with light, and their society desirable because of its excellency. They are loved of God, of holy angels, and of all the good earth, while they are hated, envied, admired, and feared by the wicked.”
Source: Journal of Discourses
“To be gentle is the test of a lady.”
“To be gentle with ourselves requires a willingness to be exposed and perhaps be hurt. As I have already suggested, there is nothing weak or ‘cowardly’ about gentleness, especially when we are relearning to live in this world by minimizing our ‘numbing strategies’ so that we can practise super self-care. When we face our fears, we are acting courageously. Courage happens in the mundane. If we observe people in our local community, we can see courage being practised all around us. Just turning up for life every day requires courage, especially when we are prepared to be present.”
Source: Super Self Care: How to Find Lasting Freedom from Addiction, Toxic Relationships and Dysfunctional Lifestyles
“To be gentle, tolerant, wise and reasonable requires a goodly portion of toughness.”
“To be getting an education means this: to be learning what is your own, and what is not your own.”
Source: Epictetus: the Discourses as reported by Arrian the Manual, and fragments
“To be given dominion over another is a hard thing; to wrest dominion over another is a wrong thing; to give dominion of yourself to another is a wicked thing.”
“To be given permission to be confused -- and remain confused -- for as long as it takes would have been a huge gift.”
Source: True You: A Journey to Finding and Loving Yourself
“To be given the opportunity to help shape new artists' careers and mentor them to see their dreams come to fruition is a task I welcome with open arms.”
“To be given the reins of creativity is a beautiful thing when you're used to just showing up to a casting and standing there having clothes put on you.”
“To be God’s heartbeat is to be an answer to his need”
“To be God's people, to love Him fervently with whole hearts, is our sole desire.”
“To be God sounds amazing and terrifying, the bible says multiple times that God sees everything, and knows everything, but also the bible states God experiences grief, and anger when his creations do bad things to each other. Going by that logic let's say there's other life in the far away planets with similar, or worse things happening when looking at it from that perspective being God sounds like it comes with unimaginable emotional turmoil and mental strength on his end that humans couldn't bear, or emulate.”
“To be godless is probably the first step to innocence... to lose the false sense of sin and subordination, the false grief for things supposed to be lost.”
Source: The vampire Lestat
“To be godless is probably the first step to innocence," he said, "to lose the sense of sin and subordination, the false grief for things supposed to be lost." So by innocence you mean not an absence of experience, but an absence of illusions." An absence of need for illusions," he said. "A love of and respect for what is right before your eyes.”
“To be good Americans, we must be better Jews, and to be better Jews, we must become Zionists.”