W Quotes
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“What is to be done about these literary people, who will never understand that painting is a craft and that the material side comes first? The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished.”
“What is to be done with millions of facts that bear witness that men, CONSCIOUSLY, that is fully understanding their real interests, have left them in the background and have rushed headlong on another path, to meet peril and danger, compelled to this course by nobody and nothing, but, as it were, simply disliking the beaten track, and have obstinately, willfully, struck out another difficult absurd way, seeking it almost in the darkness.”
Source: Notes from Underground
“What is to be done with people who can't read a Sunday paper without messing it all up?... Show me a Sunday paper which has been left in a condition fit only for kite flying, and I will show you an antisocial and dangerous character who has left it that way.”
Source: No Poems
“What is to be done? We who are still half alive, living in the often fibrillating heartland of a senescent capitalism -- can we do more than reflect the decay around and within us? Can we do more than sing our sad and bitter songs of disillusion and defeat?”
Source: The Politics of Experience and The Bird of Paradise
“What is to be expected of them is not treachery, or physcial cowardice, but stupidity, unconscious sabotage, an infallible instinct for doing the wrong thing.”
Source: A Collection of Essays
“What is to be gained if we are so intent in reaching out to the unchurched that we then unchurch the reached?”
Source: The Courage to Be Protestant: Truth-lovers, Marketers, and Emergents in the Postmodern World
“What is to be got at to make the air sweet, the ground good under the feet, can only be got at by failure, trial, again and again and again failure.”
Source: Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout
“What is to be happy, what does it look like if not like Nounou? Does it require romantic love, being known, having influence? Nounou had none of that. For some, isn't in enough not to be sick or starving? Isn't it enough to be a person, cared for in material needs, left alone with her thoughts, nothing demanded of her? Obviously not. It was then that I knew my life was in trouble. Before that my unhappiness was just kid stuff. The kind I assumed I'd grow out of.”
Source: The Persians
“What is to be my quest? Bilbo went to find a treasure, there and back again; but I go to lose one, and not return, as far as I can see”
“What is to be once resolved on should be first often well considered.”
“What is to be renounced? The adverse internal state of being that results in hurting oneself (artadhyan) and the adverse internal state of being that hurts oneself and others (raudradhyan). If these two have not been renounced, then nothing at all has been renounced.”
Source: Spirituality in Speech
“What is to be sought in designs for the display of information is the clear portrayal of complexity. Not the complication of the simple; rather the task of the designer is to give visual access to the subtle and the difficult - that is, revelation of the complex.”
“What is to be taught I learn; what is to be discovered I seek; what is to be prayed for I sought from the gods.”
“What is to be the consequence, in case the Congress shall misconstrue this part [the necessary and proper clause] of the Constitution and exercise powers not warranted by its true meaning, I answer the same as if they should misconstrue or enlarge any other power vested in them . . . the success of the usurpation will depend on the executive and judiciary departments, which are to expound and give effect to the legislative acts; and in a last resort a remedy must be obtained from the people, who can by the elections of more faithful representatives, annul the acts of the usurpers.”
“What is to be will be, and what isn't to be happens sometimes.”
Source: Anne of the Island
“What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.”
“What is to become of an independent statesman, one who will bow the knee to no idol, who will worship nothing as a divinity but truth, virtue, and his country? I will tell you; he will be regarded more by posterity than those who worship hounds and horses; and although he will not make his own fortune, he will make the fortune of his country.”
Source: Works: with a life of the author
“What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.”
Source: This Business of Living
“What is to give light must endure burning.”
Source: The Doctor and the Soul: From Psychotherapy to Logotherapy
“What is to reach the heart must come from above; if it does not come from thence, it will be nothing but notes, body without spirit.”
“What is to you "received" it is "enough"
The unlimited happiness is in these two words
The person who has won "for himself"
One day his "death" and all are forget him
But the person who has live "others"
He is would be "remembered" even after death always”
“What is today a matter of academic speculation begins tomorrow to move armies and pull down empires.”
Source: What is Christianity?: And Other Addresses
“What is today accepted as truth will tomorrow prove to be only amusing.”
“What is today but yesterday's tomorrow?”
“What is today supported by precedents will hereafter become a precedent.”
“What is tolerance? It is a necessary consequence of humanity. We are all fallible, let us then pardon each other's follies. This is the first principle of natural right.”
Source: Philosophical Dictionary
“What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity.”
Source: Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary
“What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.”
Source: The Living Thoughts of Voltaire
“What is toleration? It is the prerogative of humanity. We are all steeped in weaknesses and errors: Let us forgive one another's follies, it is the first law of nature.”
“What is Toll?
Toll: It's like expecting a red carpet in a accident zone.”
“What is too absurd to be believed is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie.”
Source: Lord of Chaos: Book Six of 'The Wheel of Time'
“What is too much? There is no such thing!”
“What is too often forgotten is that nature obviously intends the botched to die, and that every interference with that benign process is full of dangers.”
Source: Mencken Chrestomathy
“What is tragic today is that there is a number of Muslims who think that all the solutions are to be found simply by external actions. They don't have to do anything within themselves. This is a deeply Western idea - modern, Western idea, where you try to improve the world without improving yourself. And this is what the Muslims who talk about others putting their heads in the sand and that "We are doing jihad and we are political" and so forth, they are emulating a very important mistake of modernism.”
“What is translated from English and into English - and in what quantities - is a question of power.”
“What is treated as of no value is apt to grow valueless”
“What is troubling us is the tendency to believe that the mind is like a little man within.”
“What is true [in psychology] is alas not new, the new not true.”
“What is true about (ex-Iraq Survey Group head) David Kay's evidence, and this is something I have to accept, and is one of the reasons why I think we now need a new inquiry - it is true David Kay is saying we have not found large stockpiles of actual weapons.”
“What is true about a person? Would I change in the same way the river changes color but still be the same person?... And then I realized it was the first time I could see the power of the wind. I couldn't see the wind itself, but I could see it carried water that filled the rivers and shaped the countryside.”
Source: The Joy Luck Club
“What is true about music is true about life: that beauty reveals everything because it expresses nothing.”
“What is true belongs to me!”
“What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.”
Source: Pensées of Joubert
“What is true for a given person in a given situation is not necessarily true for that person in a different situation, or for another person in the same situation, and still less if both are different.”
Source: Cosi Fan Tutti
“What is true for E. coli is also true for the elephant.”
“What is true for the emotions may also be true for the intellect. Some of our perplexities may come from a mismatch between the purposes for which our cognitive faculties evolved and the purposes to which we put them today.”
Source: The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
“What is true for you is what you have observed yourself. And when you lose that, you have lost everything.”
Source: Scientology, a New Slant on Life
“What is true for you?
What makes your heart smile?
When do you feel most yourself?
What do you love to do?
Ask yourself these questions,
and live your life, as best you can,
in accordance with the answers.
This is how you taste happiness.
This is how you love yourself.
This is how you grow.”
“What is true happiness? It's not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”
“What is true has never been a question to be decided by polls or popular opinion. Truth isn’t ‘democratic’—it’s something that God has written into the very fabric of nature.”