Quotes 2821 till 2840 of 3427.
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To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.
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To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn't apparent because it's shrouded by sensation and delusion.
The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma -
To every man of vision the clear Voice speaks; there is no great leadership where there is not a mystic. Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside themselves was superior to circumstance. To choose the sure thing is treason to the soul.
The Man Nobody Knows (1924) On Jesus, in Ch. 1 : The Executive -
To get at the meaning of a statement the logical positivist asks, What would the world be like if it were true? The operationist asks, What would we have to do to come to believe it? For the pragmatist the question is, What would we do if did believe it?
The Conduct of Inquiry -
To get it right, be born with luck or else make it. Never give up. Get the knack of getting people to help you and also pitch in yourself. A little money helps, but what really gets it right is to never - I repeat - never under any conditions face the facts.
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To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
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To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.
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To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed. That can make life a garden.
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To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery. Not only Planck but also other physicists were intially at a loss as to what the proper context of the new postulate really was.
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To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist - the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar.
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To make converts is the natural ambition of everyone.
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To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
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To make men Socialists is nothing, but to make Socialism human is a great thing.
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To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.
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To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
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To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.
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To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
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To make our idea of morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow-men a secret element of gusto.
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To make someone an icon is to make him an abstraction, and abstractions are incapable of vital communication with living people.
Consider the Lobster (2005) 157
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