T Quotes
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“To say something nice about themselves, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do.”
“To say sorry is the utmost easiest thing, howbeit to accept it is the utmost difficult thing.”
“To say that "the camera cannot lie" is merely to underline the multiple deceits that are now practised in its name.”
Source: Understanding media: the extensions of man
“To say that 'I will not be free till all humans (or all sentient creatures) are free' is simply to cave in to a kind of nirvana-stupor, to abdicate our humanity, to define ourselves as losers.”
Source: T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism
“To say that 'prayer changes things' is not as close to the truth as saying, 'prayer changes me and then I change things.' God has established things so that prayer, on the basis of redemption, changes the way a person looks at things.”
Source: My Utmost for His Highest
“To say that 'wealth in America is so unfairly distributed in America,' as Ronald Dworkin does, is grossly misleading when most wealth in the United States is not distributed: at all. People create it, earn it, save it, and spend it.”
“To say that a bad government must be established for fear of anarchy is really saying that we should kill ourselves for fear of dying.”
Source: Memoir of the Life of Richard H. Lee, and His Correspondence with the Most Distinguished Men in America and Europe
“To say that a being who is sentient has no interest in continuing to live is like saying that a being with eyes has no interest in continuing to see. Death—however “humane”—is a harm for humans and nonhumans alike.”
“To say that a body or its gravitational field 'bends in space' in its vicinity is the discuss visual space in acoustic terms.”
“To say that a humorist exaggerates to get big laughs, I don't see how that's big news.”
“To say that a man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most of man's decisions are based on his rational process. That I don't believe at all.”
“To say that a man is an idealist is merely to say that he is a man.”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“To say that a man is made up of certain chemical elements is a satisfactory description only for those who intend to use him as a fertilizer.”
“To say that a man is sinful because he sins is to give an operational definition of sin. To say that he sins because he is sinful is to trace his behavior to a supposed inner trait. But whether or not a person engages in the kind of behavior called sinful depends upon circumstances which are not mentioned in either question. The sin assigned as an inner possession (the sin a person "knows") is to be found in a history of reinforcement.”
“To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.”
Source: The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm
“To say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men.”
Source: Essays
“To say that a painting is like a story is a pedestrian utterance, not altogether untrue, but uninspired, though that hardly stops people from making such invidious and unwarranted comparisons. The painting that was my life was static, hardly a story at all, moving but with no moving parts, changing but without alteration.”
Source: So Much Blue
“To say that a person feels listened to means a lot more than just their ideas get heard. It's a sign of respect. It makes people feel valued.”
“To say that a poet is justified in employing a disintegrating form in order to express a feeling of disintegration, is merely a sophistical justification for bad poetry, akin to the Whitmanian notion that one must write loose and sprawling poetry to "express" the loose and sprawling American continent. In fact, all feeling, if one gives oneself (that is, one's form) up to it, is a way of disintegration; poetic form is by definition a means to arrest the disintegration and order the feeling; and in so far as any poetry tends toward the formless, it fails to be expressive of anything.”
“To say that a schlemiel is a luckless person is to touch only the negative side. It is the schlemiel's avocation and profession to miss out on things, to muff opportunities, to be persistently, organically, preposterously and ingeniously out of place. A hungry schlemiel dreams of a plate of hot soup, and hasn't a spoon.”
“To say that a single human being, because of his birth, becomes an untouchable, unapproachable or invisible is to deny God.”
Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi
“To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.”
“To say that a thing is beautiful is simply an act of faith, not a measurement on some kind of scale.”
“To say that a thing is imaginary is not to dispose of it in the realm of mind, for the imagination, or the image making faculty, is a very important part of our mental functioning. An image formed by the imagination is a reality from the point of view of psychology; it is quite true that it has no physical existence, but are we going to limit reality to that which is material? We shall be far out of our reckoning if we do, for mental images are potent things, and although they do not actually exist on the physical plane, they influence it far more than most people suspect.”
“To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.”
Source: What Is Art?
“To say that a writer's hold on reality is tenuous is an understatement-it's like saying the Titanic had a rough crossing. Writer's build their own realities, move into them and occasionally send letters home. The only difference between a writer and a crazy person is that a writer gets paid for it.”
Source: The Martian Child: A Novel About A Single Father Adopting A Son
“To say that Agatha Christie’s characters are cardboard cut-outs is an insult to cardboard cut-outs.”
“To say that an artist sells out means that an artist is making a conscious choice to compromise his music, to to weaken his music for the sake of commercial gain.”
“To say that an author is a reader or a reader an author, to see a book as a human being or a human being a book, to describe the world as text or a text as the world, are ways of naming the readers craft.”
“To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that is has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly an idea at all.”
“To say that an idea is necessary is simply to affirm that we cannot conceive the contrary; and the fact that we cannot conceive the contrary of any belief may be a presumption, but is certainly no proof, of its truth.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of Thomas Henry Huxley
“To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.”
Source: Collected Writings
“To say that atheism is not a religion is the equivalent of saying anarchy is not really a political creed”
“To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.”
“To say that being non-judgmental is better than being judgmental is itself a judgment, and therefore a violation of principle.”
“To say that certainly America was very lucky to get a large amount of land, and the native Indians were extremely unlucky to have white men coming over here, is one thing. But to say that the whole of the American prosperity was based on exploiting the indigenous population would be a great mistake.”
“To say that climate change will be catastrophic hides a cascade of value-laden assumptions that do not emerge from empirical science.”
“To say that color is waves of light and nothing more is pointless. Existence produces its own beauty for itself, and appreciates it by itself.”
Source: ZA ZEN
“To say that corrupt means corrupt the ends is to believe in the immaculate conception of ends and principles.”
Source: Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals
“To say that everything in the bible is to be believed , simply because it is found in that volume, is equally absurd and pernicious... To discard a portion of scripture is not necessarily to reject the truth, but may be the highest evidence that one can give of his love of truth.”
“To say that film and television are the same thing is to say poetry and the novel are the same simply because they are words written on a page.”
“To say that gender is performative is a little different because for something to be performative means that it produces a series of effects. We act and walk and speak and talk in ways that consolidate an impression of being a man or being a woman.”
“To say that George Lucas cannot write a love scene is an understatement; greeting cards have expressed more passion.”
“To say that God is an incorporeal substance, is to say in effect there is no God at all. What alleges he against it, but the School-divinity which I have already answered? Scripture he can bring none, because the word incorporeal is not found in Scripture.”
Source: The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury
“To say that God is love is in effect to say simply that love is God.”
“To say that God is sovereign is to declare that He is the Almighty, the Possessor of all power in Heaven and earth, so that none can defeat His counsels, thwart His purpose, or resist His will.... The sovereignty of the God of Scripture is absolute, irresistible, infinite.” To put it now in its strongest form, we insist that God does as He pleases, only as He pleases, always as He pleases; that whatever takes place in time is but the outworking of that which He decreed in eternity.”
Source: The Sovereignty of God
“To say that God permits evil in the world may not be pleasing to the ear. But if He is held responsible for the good, it follows that He has to be responsible for the evil too.”
Source: Light of India: The Message of the Mahatma
“To say that God turns away from the sinful is like saying that the sun hides from the blind.”
“To say that God's sovereignty is limited by man's freedom is to make man sovereign.”
Source: What is Reformed Theology?: Understanding the Basics
“To say that he 'nailed a subject's soul to the canvas' makes the assumption that we persons, as well as artists, can see one another's souls.
Maybe we do. Maybe we all have the ability to perceive another's soul, and do so every day, only we take it for granted, and don't even know it when we're doing it. We call it knowing someone's 'character' or 'personality.”
Source: Mrs. Poe