W Quotes
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“What is common in all these dreams is obvious. They completely satisfy wishes excited during the day which remain unrealized. They are simply and undisguisedly realizations of wishes.”
Source: Dream Psychology. Psychoanalysis for Beginners
“What is common sense isn't common practice.”
“What is ‘common sense’? (It is that which is) Everywhere applicable, theoretically as well as practically!”
“What is common sense to one, is not always so common to another.”
“What is common sense? That which attracts the least opposition that which brings most agreeable and worthy results.”
“What is common to all paths that are spiritual is, of course, the Spirit-breath, life energy, that is why all true paths are essentially one path, because there is only one Spirit, one breath, one life, one energy in the universe. It belongs to none of us and all of us. We all share it. Spiritually does not make up otherworldly; it renders us more fully alive.”
“What is common to many is least taken care of, for all men have greater regard for what is their own than what they possess in common with others.”
“What is common to our societies is the development into a managed mass society, with big bureaucracy, managing people. The Russians do it by force. We do it by persuasion.”
“What is commonest and cheapest and nearest and easiest is Me, Me going in for my chances, spending for vast returns, Adorning myself to bestow myself on the first that will take me, Not asking the sky to come down to my goodwill, Scattering if freely forever.”
Source: Walt Whitman's
“What is commonly called 'falling in love' is in most cases an intensification of egoic wanting and needing. You become addicted to another person, or rather to your image of that person. It has nothing to do with true love, which contains no wanting whatsoever.”
Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“What is commonly called a pest is nature's way of bringing back into balance an imbalance that man has created.”
“What is commonly called literary history is actually a record of choices.”
“What is commonly called ugliness in nature can in art become full of beauty.”
Source: Rodin on Art and Artists
“What is Communism? Communism is the doctrine of the conditions of the liberation of the proletariat. What is the proletariat? The proletariat is that class in society which lives entirely from the sale of its labor and does not draw profit from any kind of capital; whose weal and woe, whose life and death, whose sole existence depends on the demand for labor.”
Source: The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document
“What is companionship where nothing that improves the intellect is communicated, and where the larger heart contracts itself to the model and dimension of the smaller?”
Source: Imaginary conversations of Greeks and Romans
“What is compelling with 'War Horse' is the jaw-dropping, awe-inspiring craftsmanship in this movie.”
“What is complicated about my relationship to my parents’ house is that it has never been uncomplicated. It’s always had pain. It’s always had love.”
Source: The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir
“What is comprehended is embedded into reality as fact.”
Source: Life Is A Cocktail
“What is concealed becomes beautiful.”
Source: The Menu of Happiness
“What is conceived well is expressed clearly.”
“What is concerning is that work in the informal sector is characterised by vulnerability, low wages and no rights. So it is not the way that we lift people out of poverty in Africa.”
“What is concisely referred to as global warming, is a fatal mistake of the present time.”
“What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?”
“What is conserved in the ground? Stone, bronze, ivory, bone, sometimes pottery. Never wood objects, no fabric or skins. That completely skews our notions about primitive man.”
“What is considered as a vow (vrat)? For this Dada [Gnani Purush], the five mahavrats (great vows of truth, non-possessiveness, non-violence, non-stealing, and celibacy as expounded by Lord Mahavir) prevail at all times! He lives in wordly life yet He prevails in the mahavrats, what must that be like? One in whom pudgal pariniti (the belief that 'I am doing' in what are the results of the non-Self) does not arise at all! Where there is mahavrat, there is no pudgal pariniti. And where there is anuvrat (observance of minor religious vows), there to a certain extent, pudgal pariniti is present and to certain extent, it has also decreased!”
Source: Generation Gap
“What is considered as Purusharth (real spiritual effort to progress as the Self)? It is when there is a sense of independence (swatantrapanu), there is Self-dependency (Swa-dhin), there is no dependency on external factors (paradhin). Whereas here, work is only done when other circumstances come together. That which happens subject to scientific circumstantial evidences is prarabdh (an effect of past life karma).”
Source: Life Without Conflict
“What is considered impossible is someone else’s opinion. What is possible is my decision.”
Source: All You Need Is a Ball: What Soccer Teaches Us about Success in Life and Business
“What is considered moksha of the Vitraags [the enlightened ones]? It is where despite having a physical body, pain does not touch him, hence even worldly happiness does not affect him. The natural happiness keeps arising from within.”
Source: The Science Of Karma
“What is considered sinful in one of the great religions to which citizens belong isn't necessarily sinful in the others. Criminal law therefore cannot be based on the notion of sin; it is crimes that it must define.”
Source: Memoirs
“What is considered to be “right” is kindness, love, and charity, and what is considered to be “wrong” is hatred, fighting, and selfishness. These things seem to be right and wrong in religious texts like the Bible and in many cultures. From what I perceive, a common theme in righteousness and wrongness is human interaction. Specifically, how a person is treated. Doing something with one of the “right” traits is considered to be a good intention, because it has the benefit of others in mind. Kindness, love, and charity are meant to aid people; those who express these traits have the benefit of the recipient in mind. So, in morality, there is a benefit-intention duality. That is what standards for morality comprise; a benefit-intention duality, which is my own neologism that describes that actions are considered moral through the consideration of the benefit of others. So, the benefit is important, but in morality, a person must intend to be doing something for the benefit of others.”
Source: The Reformation
“What is constant? Is the mind anything more than a conglomeration of thoughts? Where is the mind apart from thought? If there is no thought, can there be a mind? They cancel each other out, do they not?”
“What is constantly changing is superior to what is static.
The Hothouse”
Source: Travelling Light
“What is constitutive is the action that divides madness, and not the science elaborated once this division is made.”
Source: Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
“What is contrary to women's nature to do, they never will be made to do by simply giving their nature free play.”
Source: The Subjection of Women
“What is cooking? 'Cooking' is a loose term. It's understanding energy or the lack thereof.”
“What is correct action in a deteriorating world?”
“What is courage without risk... It wouldn’t really be courage, would it?”
“What is courage? Courage is the willingness to risk failure...There is only one danger I find in life, and that, indeed, is a real one. You may take too many precautions.”
“What is courage? It is the ability to be strong in trust, in conviction, in obedience. To be courageous is to step out in faith - to trust and obey, no matter what.”
“What is courage? This courage will not be the opposite of despair. We shall often be faced with despair, as indeed every sensitive person has been during the last several decades in this country. Hence Kierkegaard and Nietzsche and Camus and Sartre have proclaimed that courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.”
“What is creative is the seeking of perfection - and not attaining it.”
“What is creativity? Having spent my life in one creative endeavor after another, I can tell you it's not something magical or mystical. It's something very simple. To me, it's just a moment - a moment where we look at the ordinary, but we see the extraordinary. It happens all the time in my photography.”
“What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.”
Source: The works of Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield: embracing novels, romances, plays, poems, biography, short stories and great speeches
“What is crucial is the provision of opportunities for telling all the diverse stories, for interpreting membership as well as ethnicity, for making inescapable the braids of experience woven into the fabric of America's plurality.”
Source: Releasing the Imagination: Essays on Education, the Arts, and Social Change
“What is crucial is there be laws.”
“What is crucial is what you think when you fail, using the power of “non-negative thinking”
Source: Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life
“What is crucial to your survival as a race is not the redistribution of power and wealth within the prison but rather the destruction of the prison itself.”
“What is dance but a dose of stability, for it restores the balance of calm and chaos beneath.”
Source: The Book of Dance
“What is dance? I am dancing all the time. Every gesture, the body line of every pose, the way I get from place to place, the movement in the acting - none of it would be the way it is if I weren't a dancer.”
“What is dancing other than the desire for a moment of freely-given joint creation? It takes time, but even more than time, it takes trust. Trust, not so much in another—humans are so damn changeable—but trust in the part of another that does not change. The part that is whole and happy.”
Source: Dance: A Spiritual Affair