T Quotes
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“To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.”
“To conclude this discussion, assessment of justice demands engagement with the 'eyes of mankind',first, because we may variously identify with the others elsewhere and not just with our local community;second, because our choices and actions may affect the lives of others far as well as near;and third,because what they see from their respective perspective of history and geography may help us to overcome our own parochialism.”
Source: The Idea of Justice
“To conclude this personal note, I, William Joyce, will merely say that I left England because I would not fight for Jewry against the Führer and National Socialism, and because I believe most ardently, as I do today, that victory and a perpetuation of the old system would be an incomparably greater evil for [England] than defeat coupled with a possibility of building something new, something really national, something truly socialist.”
“To conclude this preface I would just like to add that certainly aphoristic literature, although of extreme philosophical, artistic, and often even scientific value, is not loved by the general public, less and less accustomed to reading, meditating and thinking, perhaps because they realize, even following the advice of certain pseudo intellectuals, that to be happy and carefree you must not make your brain work too much, however I remain of the opposite opinion, precisely to safeguard our humanity, and therefore I agree with the following concept expressed by John Stuart Mill and for this reason I continue to strive to promote the aphoristic genre, here is the pearl of the great English philosopher: "It is better to be a discontented man than a satisfied pig, to be Socrates unhappy than a contented imbecile, and if the imbecile and the pig are of a different opinion it is because they see only one side of the question.”
Source: William Shakespeare Aphoristic Dictionary: With essays by Carl William Brown
“To conclude: time doesn’t pass. (I hope the reader is now convinced!)
Well, what does pass, then? I shall argue that it is the conscious awareness of the fleeting self that changes from moment to moment. The misconception that time flows or passes can be traced back to the tacit assumption of a conserved self. It is natural for people to think that ‘they’ endure from moment to moment while the world changes because ‘time flows’. But as Alice remarked in Lewis Carroll’s story, ‘It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.’ Alice was right: ‘you’ are not the same today as you were yesterday. To be sure, there is a very strong correlation – a lot of mutual information, to get technical about it – between today’s you and yesterday’s you – a thread of information made up of memories and beliefs and desires and attitudes and other things that usually change only slowly, creating an impression of continuity. But continuity is not conservation. There are future yous correlated with (that is, observing) future states of the world, and past yous correlated with (observing) past states of the world. At each moment, the you appropriate to that world-state interprets the correlation with that state as ‘now’. It is indeed ‘now’ for ‘that you’ at ‘that time’. That’s all!
The flow-of-time phenomenon reveals ‘the self’ as a slowly evolving complex pattern of stored information that can be accessed at later times and provide an informational template against which fresh perceptions can be matched. The illusion of temporal flow stems from the inevitable slight mismatches.”
Source: The Demon in the Machine: How Hidden Webs of Information Are Solving the Mystery of Life
“To conclude, The Light of humane minds is Perspicuous Words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity; Reason is the pace; Encrease of Science, the way; and the Benefit of man-kind, the end.”
Source: Annotated LEVIATHAN with English Grammar Exercises: by Thomas Hobbes (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)
“To conclude, the tragedy of March 25 [1969] caught me by surprise. Yahya Khan fooled even me.”
“To conclude, therefore, let no man out of a weak conceit of sobriety, or an ill-applied moderation, think or maintain, that a man can search too far or be too well studied in the book of God's word, or in the book of God's works; divinity or philosophy; but rather let men endeavour an endless progress or proficience in both."—Bacon: "Advancement of Learning".”
Source: The Annotated Origin: A Facsimile of the First Edition of On the Origin of Species
“To conclude, therefore, let no man upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation think or maintain that a man can search too far, or be too well studied in the book of God's word, or the book of God's works, divinity or philosophy; but rather let men endeavor an endless progress or proficience in both; only let men beware that they apply both to charity, and not to swelling; to use, and not to ostentation; and again, that they do not unwisely mingle or confound these learnings together.”
Source: The Works of Francis Bacon: Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Albans, and Lord High Chancellor of England
“To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wider social context.”
“To condemn free-market capitalism because of anything going on today makes no sense. There is no evidence that capitalism exists today. We are deeply involved in an interventionist-planned economy that allows major benefits to accrue to the politically connected of both political parties. One may condemn the fraud and the current system, but it must be called by its proper names Keynesian inflationism, interventionism, and corporatism.”
Source: Pillars of Prosperity: Free Markets, Honest Money, Private Property
“To condemn pornography, radical feminists must condemn the concept of individuality. They must deny that personal choices are personal.”
Source: XXX: A Woman's Right to Pornography
“To condemn someone to death is to surrender; it proves that you failed. You are not able to change him, to change her; you have to kill him or her. You surrender. ... You only demonstrate your lack of capacity, your helplessness. This is failure.”
“To condemn spontaneous and delightful occupations because they are useless for self-preservation shows an uncritical prizing of life irrespective of its content.”
Source: The Sense of Beauty
“To condense fact from the vapor of nuance.”
Source: Snow Crash
“To conduct great matters and never commit a fault is above the force of human nature.”
Source: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography
“To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget.”
“To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it.”
“To confess?! But what if the priest snitched me to God?”
Source: The New Land
“To confess greatness and financial prosperity will be a joke if you still waste time and spend time on non-productive events.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“To confess ignorance is often wiser than to beat about the bush with a hypothetical diagnosis.”
Source: The Quotable Osler
“To confess that you are totally Ignorant about the horse, is social suicide: you will be despised by everybody, especially the horse.”
“To confess your fallibility and then do nothing about it is not humble; it is boasting of your modesty.”
“To confess your sins to God is not to tell [God] anything [God] doesn't already know. Until you confess them, however, they are the abyss between you. When you confess them, they become the bridge.”
Source: Wishful thinking: a theological ABC.
“To confess your sins to God is not to tell God anything God doesn't already know. Until you confess them, however, they are the abyss between you. When you confess them, they become the Golden Gate Bridge.”
Source: Wishful Thinking: A Seeker's ABC
“To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.”
“To confine soldiers to purely military functions while urgent and vital tasks have to be done, and nobody else is available to undertake them, would be senseless. The soldier must then be prepared to become a propagandist, a social worker, a civil engineer, a schoolteacher, a nurse, a boy scout. But only for as long as he cannot be replaced, for it is better to entrust civilian tasks to civilians.”
“To conform is to lose your soul”
Source: Then We Came to the End: A Novel
“To conform within rational limits to a given style is no more servile than to pay one's taxes or to write according to the rule of grammar.”
“To confound the tyranny of man there should exist for a century a third sex, both male and female, and stronger than men. This new sex would prove with the lash that men as well as women are made for its pleasure; and then you would hear men protesting against the tyranny of the hermaphrodite sex and admitting that strength should not be the sole rule of right. Just why do they refuse to grant the women the independence which they would demand from the third sex?”
“To confront a person with their own shadow is to show them their own light.”
“To confront death every day, to see it yourself, you have to love the living.”
Source: Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner
“To confront death, in any guise, is to identify with the victim and face what is unsettling and sobering”
“To confront inequality is to confront this incoherent ideology, & ultimately to confront ourselves, our incoherent selves.”
“To congratulate oneself on one's warm commitment to the environment, or to peace, or to the oppressed, and think no more is a profound moral fault.”
“To conjure a particular knowledge you visualize an architectural structure and then you walk around and see the details that then bring back the words or the poetry or the lines of thought. Memory's going extinct because we rely on machines and copies and so on. The idea of working with structures that conjure dreams, personages, history, time, that can be contained in this way as you walk through your mind, is a challenge.”
“To connect is to dissolve the imaginary pyramids of artificial privilege.”
“To connect the meditator (dhyata) to the object of meditation (dhyeya) is Purusharth (spiritual effort to progress as the Self) and meditation (dhyan) is the effect [resultant state].”
Source: Anger
“To connect to people at the deepest level, you need stories.”
“To connect with decision makers, we need to present ideas in their language, not ours. Know their business. Talk with them, not at them. Otherwise, they can't hear us when we speak.”
“To connect with people, be yourself, at your best.”
Source: Everyone Communicates, Few Connect: What the Most Effective People Do Differently
“To connect with the fairies... go outdoors.”
“To connect with the great river we all need a path, but when you get down there there's only one river.”
“To Cono’s mind the three assailants were all three nearly motionless even as they skittered and dodged, firing, maneuvering for a kill. Cono felt exhilaration—the ecstatic awareness that his strange brain and body had ordained him for just such moments, by allowing him to enter a space outside of time.”
Source: Performance Anomalies
“To conquer [our enemies] we must dare, and dare again, and dare for ever; and thus will France be saved”
“To conquer a piece of earth and make it as beautiful as one can dream of it being: That is art, too. A man cannot be separated from the earth. I come out of the garden every day feeling, oh, inspired in a way that one needs in order to convert the daily-ness of the life into something greater than that little life itself.”
“To conquer by sheer force is becoming harder and harder every day. Defensive is getting continuously the advantage of offensive, as we progress in the satanic science of destruction.”
Source: The Nikola Tesla Treasury
“To conquer death you only have to die.”
Source: Angel of Death: A Forensic Mystery
“To conquer demons, first conquer your mind. When the mind is subdued, demons withdraw obediently. To control knaves, first control your own mood. When your mood is balanced, scoundrels cannot get at you.”
“To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”