T Quotes
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“To think that this is the only universe, that the physical creation is all there is, these are the dogmas of our times.”
“To think that we are disconnected in some way serves the occupation whether it's through indifference or a distancing. It is a colonial approach of making you a subject and them the spectators. That is disturbing and counterproductive. And then suddenly they are surprised or find it alienating that the microcosmic effects of Palestine are happening in the U.S., France, and England, whether it's from the Islamic movements or immigration factors. Keeping a false purity of their countries will harm them eventually.”
“To think that we can finally get it all together is unrealistic.”
Source: When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
“To think that we can or should all ‘go Amish’ and stick our heads in the sand with regard to technology is wishful thinking, but so too is the black-pilled fantasy that we can’t and shouldn’t use technology in our own projects and creations.
In the end technology is just a contemporary iteration of Prometheus’s fire. It can burn, yes, and its smoke can blind our eyes.
But it can also revolutionize our creativity and aid those of us employing it for higher than material purposes to shine a light through the shadows for anyone capable of seeing and following our freedom beacon.”
Source: Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality
“To think that we grasp the fullness of life is to say that by holding a mere drop of water in our hands we are able to understand the immensity of the ocean.”
“To think that we might easily have gone through life not knowing each other, missing all this free flow of love and ideas and warmth and sharing... We share really almost everything. (Avis DeVoto to Julia Child)”
Source: As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto: Food, Friendship, and the Making of a Masterpiece
“To think that when they come out with these gigantic songs, it's pretty tough to top them, you know.”
“To think that you are living life, even though you still haven’t realized nondual awakening, is like thinking that you are eating a mostly sweet, partially bitter—or vice versa—apple, while all you are doing is licking a photocopy of a picture of an apple seed.”
“To think that you are not following a rule is to follow a rule.”
“To think that you can create your own truth is to assume a power that you don’t have that will ensure a future that you don’t want.”
“To think that you don’t have a choice is actually a choice that’s an attempt to relieve you of the guilt of not making a choice.”
“To think the universe is only composed of the physical universe is to be rather shortsighted.”
“To think the welfare and the goodness of the next generations is indeed a good ethics, but there is much greater ethics than this: To think the welfare and the goodness of the current generations, the very people of now! The reason is simple: Future may not exist, it is only a possibility, but the people of now are not possibility, they are here!”
“To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.”
“To think there are men who dare so defile a church, a sacred sanctuary dedicated to God. We have to hold up our skirts and walk tiptoe, so covered is the floor, the aisle and pews, with the dark shower of tobacco juice.”
“To think things out properly and fairly, a fellow's got to be calm and old and toothless: When you're an old gaffer with no teeth, it's easy to say: 'Damn it, boys, you mustn't bite!' But, when you've got all thirty-two teeth.”
Source: Zorba the Greek
“To think to be wise alone is a very great folly.”
“To think, to judge, to choose our values is to be individuated, to create a distinct, personal identity. But thus to affirm that I exist is to open myself to the realization that I am finite, that my life is limited, that I am mortal, that one day I will die. The rebellion against the inevitability of death results in a rebellion against the challenges and opportunities of life. If I refuse to fully live, I cannot die.
So: fear of autonomy entails fear of self-responsibility entails fear of identity entails fear of aloneness entails fear of death.
That which does not exist cannot perish.”
Source: Honoring the Self: Self-Esteem and Personal Transformation
“To think to keep things as they are, is to let them move unpredictably, since nothing but death will still the beat of the heart or keep the universe from its perpetual motion.”
Source: The Lycian Shore
“To think too much is a disease.”
“To think truly is noble and to be deceived is base.”
Source: Theaetetus: Top Philosophy Collections
“To think twice in every matter and follow the lead of others is no way to make money.”
Source: Nippon Eitaigura: The Way to Wealth
“To think twice is quite enough.”
Source: The wisdom of Confucius
“To think we do not need to receive from others does not prove humility or maturity–it reveals pride.”
Source: The Father Heart of God/With Study Guide
“To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing.”
“To think well is to serve God in the interior court.”
Source: Centuries of Meditations
“To think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the world, not in loud words but great deeds. To live in faith that the whole world is on your side so long as you are true to the best that is in you.”
Source: Your Forces and How to Use Them
“To think what is true, to sense what is beautiful and to want what is good, hereby the spirit finds purpose of a life in reason.”
“To think what the Stasi went through to spy on us. Even they couldn't dream of a world in which citizens voluntarily carried tracking devices, conducted self-surveillance and reported on themselves, morning, noon and night.”
Source: Fortune Smiles
“To think what you want to think is to think truth, regardless of appearances.”
Source: Wallace D. Wattles Ultimate Collection – 10 Books in One Volume: The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Well, The Science of Being Great, How to Get What You Want and more: From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of Making of the Man Who Can or How to Promote Yourself and New Science of Living and Healing or Health Through New Thought and Fasting
“To think, when I was working I thought that owning possessions was a reflection of success. Little did I realize that I was happier with less stuff. In college I was enjoying some of the best moments of my life, and the things that mattered the most were the experiences and interactions that were shaping my future. And it's these new experiences that keep your life exciting. Maybe it's the reason people lose inspiration as they grow older: living a life with fewer surprises. I believe travel can take you back to that intoxicating place. The place where tasting a strange fruit or looking out at a remarkable vista makes you feel energized once again.”
Source: The Costa Rica Escape Manual: Your How-To Guide on Moving, Traveling Through, & Living in Costa Rica
“To think you can creates the force that can.”
Source: Heading for Victory: Or, Getting the Most Out of Life
“To think you can just go out and help people and somehow get a better life is not reincarnation as I know it. A better life comes from being happy and inner realizations. Now if helping others adds to that, well then, it's great.”
“To think you could have been dreaming the cure for cancer," Blue said. "Look, Sargent," Ronan retorted, "I was gonna dream you some eye cream last night since clearly modern medicine's doing jack shit for you, but I nearly had my ass handed to me by a death snake from the fourth circle of dream hell, so you're welcome."
Blue was appropriately touched. "Ah, thanks, man."
"No problem, bro.”
Source: The Raven King
“To think you know what is best for another person is an industrial-strength ego trip.”
“To think! All that power and he wasn't even rich!”
“To think, "I am a sinner, oh Father, save me," is a defective approach! You should say, "I am your son, I am your daughter, oh Father, take me on your lap, I am your child." This will be the approach. You should forget what you do not want.”
“To think, a sweater, is made entirely of knots. My stomach could clothe a village.”
“To think, after all this time, after all the searching and all the waiting, after all the regret and the time she'd spent away, she came back to find that happiness was right where she's left it. On a football field in Mullaby, North Carolina. Waiting for her.”
“To think, analyze and invent, he [Pierre Menard] also wrote me, “are not anomalous acts, but the normal respiration of the intelligence. To glorify the occasional fulfillment of this function, to treasure ancient thoughts of others, to remember with incredulous amazement that the doctor universal is thought, is to confess our languor or barbarism. Every man should be capable of all ideas, and I believe that in the future he will be." (Jorge Luis Borges, "Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote, 1939)”
“To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius-the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.”
“To think, it seems to me, is to hold an idea long enough to unlock and shape its power in the varied contexts of shared human knowledge.”
Source: Notebooks of the Mind: Explorations of Thinking
“To think, we have the garment industry instead of nature to thank for the zipper concept when it would have come in so handy for childbirth.”
“To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.”
Source: Watt
“To this culture warrior, gay marriage is not a vital issue. I don't believe the republic will collapse if Larry marries Brendan. However, it is clear that most Americans want heterosexual marriage to maintain its special place in American society. And as long as gays are not penalized in the civil arena, I think the folks should make the call at the ballot box. Traditional marriage is widely seen as a social stabilizer, and I believe that is true.”
“To this day, being able to “take advantage” of someone is the measure in my mind of having a parent. For me and Lindsay, the fear of imposing stalked our minds, infecting even the food we ate. We recognized instinctively that many of the people we depended on weren’t supposed to play that role in our lives, so much so that it was one of the first things Lindsay thought of when she learned of Papaw’s death. We were conditioned to feel that we couldn’t really depend on people—that, even as children, asking someone for a meal or for help with a broken-down automobile was a luxury that we shouldn’t indulge in too much lest we fully tap the reservoir of goodwill serving as a safety valve in our lives.”
Source: Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
“To this day, cranes carry the strands of our fate. They say that each
time two people’s paths cross, so do their strands. When they become
important to one another or make a promise to one another, a knot is tied,
connecting them”
Source: Six Crimson Cranes
“To this day George Sr. is the soft touch and I'm the enforcer. I'm the one who writes them a letter and says 'Shape up!' He writes, 'You're marvelous.'”
“To this day God is the name by which I designate all things which cross my willful path violently and recklessly, all things which upset my subjective views, plans and intentions and change the course of my life for better or worse.”
Source: Jung on Christianity
“To this day, huge numbers of people are convinced that Yeltsin excoriated the party bosses, published critical reports, and suffered for his beliefs. None of that happened. Those bosses, in the course of their internal intrigues, first appointed him head of the Moscow regional committee of the CPSU, that is, mayor of Moscow, and then, when they began to fall out with him, transferred him to the position of head of the State Construction Committee, that is, minister of construction. Some fall from grace! He did not even have to settle for a lower class of limousine, and remained firmly in the milieu of treacherous officialdom. His family remained the same, too, with exactly the same values, or rather, the same complete absence of values and only a craving for personal luxury and wealth. That was to prove crucial when the family was transformed into "the Family."
Yeltsin was devoid of genuine ideological motivation and driven only by a lust for power. He was an extremely talented individual, a truly intuitive politician who sensed the popular mood and knew how to exploit it. He was prepared to act decisively and boldly on occasion, but always in the interests of himself and his own power rather than of the people or the nation.
I am writing this vehement denunciation of Yeltisn, partially because I regret having been a blind admirer of his and of that part of Russian society which, only too ready to support everything he did, paved the way for the lawlessness we live with today.”
Source: Patriot: A Memoir