Quotes 3801 till 3820 of 10681.
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If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?
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If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
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If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do is to study the words of those who were.
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If only every man who sees my films did not get the impression he can make love to me, I would be a lot happier.
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If only nature is real and if, in nature, only desire and destruction are legitimate, then, in that all humanity does not suffice to assuage the thirst for blood, the path of destruction must lead to universal annihilation.
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If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.
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If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.
Pensees (1669) -
If our history has taught us anything, it is that action for change directed against the external conditions of our oppressions is not enough.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 142 -
If our vaunted rule of the people does not breed nobler men and women than monarchies have done it must and will inevitably give place to something better.
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If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.
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If people ask, 'Are you Sherlock Holmes?', it's horribly naff, but I say, 'I'm not, I just look a bit like him' - which is how I feel. There are bad attributes of his that I really don't share!
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If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.
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If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?
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If poetry comes not as naturally as leaves to a tree it had better not come at all.
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If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.
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If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.
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If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.
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If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years.
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