T Quotes
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“To discover a system for the avoidance of war is a vital need of our civilisation.”
Source: The Conquest of Happiness
“To discover and to teach are distinct functions; they are also distinct gifts, and are not commonly found united in the same person.”
“To discover depravity in those whom we have loved, is one of the most exquisite tortures to a virtuous mind, and the conviction is often rejected before it is finally admitted.”
Source: The romance of the forest, by the authoress of 'A Sicilian romance'.
“To discover he is loved in return ought really to disenchant the lover with the beloved.”
“To discover how much of our resources must be mobilized for war, we must first examine our political aim and that of the enemy. We must gauge the strength and situation of the opposite state. We must gauge the character and abilities of its government and people and do the same in regard to our own. Finally, we must evaluate the political sympathies of other states and the effect the war may have on them.”
“To discover how to be human now is the reason we follow this star.”
Source: For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio
“To discover new continents, you must be willing to lose sight of the shore.”
“To discover one's own spiritual poverty is to achieve a positive conquest by the spirit.”
Source: Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy
“To discover our own intimate contradictions is a success in itself because our interior judgment is spontaneously free. The man guided by the voice of the Consciousness walks victorious through the Correct Path.”
“To discover that you can paint without special talent is a great revelation. An endless stream runs through you, enough to paint for lifetimes. Talent is universal. You can dip into that source to your heart's content. Everyone is good at what comes to them spontaneously. If nothing is put in your way, talent will meet you there.”
Source: Life, Paint and Passion: Reclaiming the Magic of Spontaneous
“To discover the depth, leave the surface and to discover the surface, leave the depth! You shall meet wisdom only when you know both the surface and the depth!”
“To discover the exact location of a 'thing' is a simple matter of factual research. To discover the exact location of a person: where to locate the self?”
Source: The Pickup
“To discover the grace in your Life just look at what you have!”
“To discover the laws of operative power in material productions, whether formed by man or brought into being by Nature herself, is the work of a science, and is indeed what we more especially term Science.”
Source: Lectures on the Progress of Arts and Science, Resulting from the Great Exhibition in London ...
“To discover the meaning of what is called "social justice" has been one of my chief preoccupations for more than 10 years. I have failed in this endeavour or rather, have reached the conclusion that, with reference to society of free men, the phrase has no meaning whatever.”
“To discover the mode of life or of art whereby my spirit could express itself in unfettered freedom.”
Source: Stephen D
“To discover the real you, look at what you spend time thinking about when no one is looking.”
Source: Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God
“To discover the rules of society that are best suited to nations, there would need to exist a superior intelligence, who could understand the passions of men without feeling any of them, who had no affinity with our nature but knew it to the full, whose happiness was independent of ours, but who would nevertheless make our happiness his concern, who would be content to wait in the fullness of time for a distant glory, and to labour in one age to enjoy the fruits in another. Gods would be needed to give men laws.”
“To discover the soul living in somebody's body, we watch the surrounding of the body, and if it's messy and disordered, so is the soul.”
“To discover the thing you're brilliant at you first have to endure realizing all the things you're average at.”
“To discover the true principles of morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods. They need but common sense. They have only to look within themselves, to reflect upon their own nature, to consult their obvious interests, to consider the object of society and of each of the members who compose it, and they will easily understand that virtue is an advantage, and that vice is an injury to beings of the species.”
“To discover the various use of things is the work of history.”
Source: Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production
“To discover to the world something which deeply concerns it, and of which it was previously ignorant; to prove to it that it had been mistaken on some vital point of temporal or spiritual interest, is as important a service as a human being can render to his fellow creatures.”
Source: On Liberty
“To discover what becomes of men who do not pay debts owed to Ratilla, one must visit the underworld.”
Source: Crowns Of Amara: The Return Of The Oracle
“To discover what time is look well at music, for in music time is exactly measured and defined with rhythm and soul.”
“To discover what you really believe, pay attention to the way you act -- and to what you do when things don't go the way you think they should. Pay attention to what you value. Pay attention to how and on what you spend your time. Your money. And pay attention to the way you eat.”
Source: Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything
“To discover your mission and put it into action - instead of worrying on the sidelines - is to find peace of mind and a heart full of love.”
“To discover your real questions, simply take a time-out. Stop looking ahead of yourself at where you’re going or backward at where you’ve been. When you do stop, there’s a sense of going nowhere. There’s a sense of gap, which is a tremendous relief. You can simply breathe and be who you are.”
“To discover, or recover, the sense of religious certainty one must worship.”
“To discriminate against a thoroughly upright citizen because he belongs to some particular church, or because, like Abraham Lincoln, he has not avowed his allegiance to any church, is an outrage against the liberty of conscience, which is one of the foundations of American life.”
Source: Americanism in Religion
“To discuss evil in a manner implying neutrality, is to sanction it.”
Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z
“To discuss with a good and right person and teaching him is an easy way, but guiding and teaching, the rude, ignorant, uncivil, and evil-minded person is a challenging matter. If anyone achieves that task, he or she deserves to rank a unique person.”
“To disdain today is to prove that yesterday has been misunderstood.”
Source: Wisdom and Destiny: Works of Maeterlinck
“To disguise nothing, to conceal nothing, to write about those things that are closest to our pain, our happiness; to write about our sexual clumsiness, the agonies of Tantalus, the depth of our discouragement-what we glimpse in our dreams-our despair. To write about the foolish agonies of anxiety, the refreshment of our strength when these are ended; to write about our painful search for self, jeopardized by a stranger in the post office, a half-seen face in a train window, to write about the continents and populations of our dreams, about love and death, good and evil, the end of the world.”
“To dislocate the functioning of a city without destroying it can be more effective than a riot because it can be longer-lasting, costly to the society but not wantonly destructive, moreover, it is more difficult for Government to quell it by superior force.”
“To dismiss a guest is a more ungracious act than not to admit him at all.”
“To dismiss basic contexts such as link colours, page layouts, navigation systems, and visual hierarchy as 'boring' or 'pedestrian' is akin to laughing at a car's steering wheel as unimaginative.”
Source: The Art & Science of Web Design
“To dismiss the current extinction wave on the grounds that extinctions are normal events is like ignoring a genocidal massacre on the grounds that every human is bound to die at some time anyway.”
“To dispair is to turn your back on God.”
“To disparage the dictate of reason is equivalent to contemning the command of God.”
Source: Philosophical Texts
“To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment.”
“To display one's talents is not an objectionable subject. However, denial of other's talents is tantamount to denying yourself.”
“To display the greatest powers, unless they are applied to great purposes, makes nothing for the character of greatness.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“To dispose a soul to action we must upset its equilibrium.”
Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer
“To dispose of a two-headed Org, jump up and down three times, roll a head of cabbage, and giggle!”
“To dispute with a drunkard is to debate with an empty house.”
“To disregard what the world thinks of us is not only arrogant but utterly shameless.
[Lat., Negligere quid de se quisque sentiat, non solum arrogantis est, sed etiam omnino dissoluti.]”
“To disrespect the masses is moral; to honor them, lawful.”
“To dissociate the child from love is, for our species, a methodological error: contraception, which is to make love without making a child; artificial (in vitro) fertilization, which is to make a child without making love; abortion, which is to unmake the child; and pornography, which is to unmake love: all these, to varying degrees, are incompatible with natural law.”
“To distance ourselves from our experience makes our feelings a liability, while staying in conversation with our experience makes our feelings a resource.”