W Quotes
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“What is public opinion? It is private indolence.”
Source: Friedrich Nietzsche (English Edition)
“What is pure Bill? Or excellent or admirable? The death of a million people in a flood? God evidently through so. He is incapable of acts that are not admirable, and it is He who brought about the Flood. How about the slaying of children in Jericho? There are a few Bible stories that are not as terrible as they are happy. We just prefer to leave out the terrible part, but that only makes the good anemic.”
Source: Dekker 4-in-1 Bundle: Black, Showdown, Heaven's Wager & Kiss
“What is qualified? What have I been qualified for in my life? I haven't been qualified to be a mayor. I'm not qualified to be a songwriter. I'm not qualified to be a TV producer. I'm not qualified to be a successful businessman. And so, I don't know what qualified means.”
“What is quite worrisome is the absence of analysis and reflection. Take the word "terrorism." It has become synonymous now with anti-Americanism, which, in turn, has become synonymous with being critical of the United States, which, in turn, has become synonymous with being unpatriotic. That's an unacceptable series of equations.”
“What is racism? Racism is a marriage of racist policies and racist ideas that produces and normalizes racial inequities.”
Source: How to Be an Antiracist
“What is raised by printing notes is just as much taken from the public as is a beer-duty or an income-tax. What the Government spends the public pays for. There is no such thing as an uncovered deficit.”
Source: Tract on Monetary Reform
“What is rank if not protection from the consequences which fall upon common men?”
Source: Crowns Of Amara: The Return Of The Oracle
“What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational”
“What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational. On this conviction the plain man like the philosopher takes his stand,and from it philosophy starts in its study of the universe of mind as well as the universe of nature.”
Source: Philosophy of right
“What is Raven from my perspective? I believe it is the collective consciousness of the suffering masses melding into one voice. I believe it is conscience personified. Perhaps, a messenger with a message. Or even, the depths of my consciousness rising to the surface. Whatever it is, “Raven” started me on a quest. And I have been on this journey for quite some time.”
Source: I Will Be Silent
“What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written.”
“What is reading but silent conversation?”
Source: Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen
“What is real and what is not? In this world is there really something like a wall separating reality from the unreal? I think there might be. No, not might - there is one. But it's an entirely uncertain wall. Depending on circumstances and the person, its texture, its shape transforms. Like some living being (page 399).”
Source: The City and Its Uncertain Walls
“What is real and what is not is for your heart to decide and for your heart to know.”
“What is real for me are the illusions I create with my paintings. Everything else is quicksand.”
“What is real for us is what we observe and recognize. We create our own experiences by our recognition and imagination, and we modulate the energies with our emotions.”
Source: Quantum Energetics and Spirituality Volume 1: Aligning with Universal Consciousness
“What is real is always worth it.”
Source: White Oleander
“What is real is beyond all reach.”
“What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things.”
“What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface.”
“What is real to me is the power of our awareness when we are focused on something beyond ourselves. It is a shaft of light shining in a dark corner. Our ability to shift our perceptions and seek creative alternatives to the conondrums of modernity is in direct proportion to our empathy. Can we imagine, witness, and ultimately feel the suffering of another?”
“What is real, what is not. Who can tell. We inhabit different worlds.”
Source: Box of Lies: A Love Story, Without Love
“What is real will remain.”
Source: The Cocoon Philosophy: Your Journey to Unfurling
“What is realisation? Realisation is my conscious and constant sailing with my Inner Pilot in His Golden Boat towards the uncharted land, where sooner than at once beauty, divinity and Immortality seeds grow into the richest harvest.”
“What is reality anyway! It's nothing but a collective hunch.”
“What is reality but the dreamworld of a limited imagination.”
“What is reality except for the things that people universally experience the same way?”
Source: An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
“What is reality? If it feels real, looks real, is it not so?”
Source: Throne of the Fallen
“What is reality if it isn't how we feel about things?”
“What is reality? Were my childhood experiences reality? Were my adult experiences reality? Are prayers and rituals reality? Do they make a difference?”
Source: Forgotten Burial: A Restless Spirit s Plea for Justice
“What is reality? An icicle forming in fire.”
“What is reality? Is it not merely a term for the philosopher to conjure with, behind which he may craftily conceal his ignorance?”
“What is reality? The answer Jesus gives to this question is: God and his kingdom. That is what you can count on and what you have to come to terms with.”
“What is realized in the novel is the process of coming to know one's own language as it is perceived in someone else's language, coming to know one's own belief system in someone else's system.”
Source: The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays
“What is really a stretch to me is to make quick decisions.”
“What is really amazing, and frustrating, is mankind's habit of refusing to see the obvious and inevitable until it is there, and then muttering about unforeseen catastrophes.”
“What is really beautiful must always be true.”
Source: Armance
“What is really desired, under the name of riches, is essentially, power over men ... this power ... is in direct proportion to the poverty of the men over whom it is exercised, and in inverse proportion to the number of persons who are as rich as ourselves.”
Source: Unto this Last
“What is really disappointing about this president is not just lack of leadership, but his tendency to always place the blame for his lack of leadership somewhere else”
“What is really happening in meditation is that we are developing the ability to think when we want to, and to not think when we don’t want to.”
Source: Running with the Mind of Meditation: Lessons for Training Body and Mind
“What is really important for a woman, you know, even more than being beautiful or intelligent, is to be entertaining.”
“What is really important in Man is the part of him that we do not understand. Of much of it we are not even conscious, just as we are not normally conscious of keeping up our circulation by our heart-pump, though if we neglect it we die.”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“What is really important is not what we believe to be true in our heads, but what we know to be true in our hearts: love. In other words, if a person is loving and kind, that ought to be enough to connect with one another and work together for the sake of all of our children. We need to care about all human beings, all life on the planet, and the planet itself. That’s where we have to agree.”
Source: The One Idea That Saves The World: A Message of Hope in a Time of Crisis
“What is really important is to educate people how to protect themselves and how to ensure that, despite their poverty, they can get tested and access drugs. So I just hope that those who can will make those drugs available.”
“What is really important is what you learn after thinking you know it all.”
“What is really important to all of us on our deathbed is the love of friends and family, the legacy you’re leaving behind, knowing that you have done things that made you and others happy!”
“What is really important to me is a sense of humour and a mischief about life. Life is just too boring otherwise.”
“What is really important you can't understand with your mind.”
“What is really momentous and all-important with us is the present, by which the future is shaped and colored.”
Source: Literary recreations and miscellanies
“What is really needed to make democracy function is not knowledge of facts, but right education.”
Source: Collected Works