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The man who has not realized the difficulty of art never does anything worthwhile; the man who realizes it too soon does nothing at all.
— 1765 Quoted in Frank Elgar Mondrian (1968).
Looking around the House, one realizes that we are all minorities now. See Shawcross 782:4.
(John) Jeremy Thorpe— 1974 On the absence of a clear party majority, House of Commons, 6 Mar.
Our little drawing Room commands a view unequalled in Europe — from Westminster Abbey to Gravesend — the dome of St Paul's in the Air — realizes Michael Angelo's Idea on seeing that of the Pantheon — 'I will build such a thing in the Sky.'
john constable— Letter to Rev. John Fisher (26 August 1827); as quoted in Leslie Parris and Ian Fleming-Williams, Constable (Tate Gallery Publications, London, 1993), p. 473
The man who realizes his ignorance has taken the first step toward knowledge.
max heindel— The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception (1909) Introduction
[Barack] Obama is a radical communist and I think it is becoming clear. That is what I told people in Illinois and now everybody realizes it is coming true. He is going to destroy this country and we are either going to stop him or the United States of America is going to cease to exist.
alan keyes— Interview with KHAS-TV, Hastings, Nebraska, February 19, 2009. [6]
Your humble correspondent realizes that many readers are left-wing, anti-string-theory fighters. So they probably smoke marijuana and this is my modest attempt to help them.
luboš motl— [2]
When the bubble of ignorance bursts the self realizes its oneness with the indivisible Self. Words that proceed from the Source of Truth have real meaning. But when men speakthese words as their own, the words become meaningless.
meher baba— 65 : Ignorance Personified, p. 111
Can any man say with certainty that he was happy at a particular moment of time which he remembers as being delightful? Remembering it certainly makes him happy, because he realizes how happy he could have been, but at the actual moment when the alleged happiness was occurring, did he really feel happy? He was like a man owning a piece of ground in which, unknown to himself, a treasure lay buried.
eugène delacroix— 28 April 1854 (p. 227)
I think the growth industry of the future in this country and the world will soon be the continuing education of adults. ...I think the educated person of the future is somebody who realizes the need to continue to learn. That is the new definition and it is going to change the world we live in and work in.
Peter Drucker— p. 295 (Managing in a Time of Great Change (1995))
In Heaven all reviews will be favorable; here on earth, the publisher realizes, plausibility demands an occasional bad one, some convincing lump in all that leaven, and he accepts it somewhat as a theologian accepts Evil.
Randall Jarrell— “Contemporary Poetry Criticism”, p. 59
In Heaven all reviews will be favorable; here on earth, the publisher realizes, plausibility demands an occasional bad one, some convincing lump in all that leaven, and he accepts it somewhat as a theologian accepts Evil.
Randall Jarrell— “Contemporary Poetry Criticism”, p. 140
Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.
— Swenson, 1959, p. 21
The circulation of capital realizes value , while living labour creates value .
karl marx— Notebook V, The Chapter on Capital, p. 463
I doubt whether the Revolution has, in essentials, changed Russia at all. Reading Gogol, or Dostoevsky for that matter, one realizes how completely the Soviet regime has fallen back on to, and perhaps invigorated, the old Russia. Certainly there is much more of Gogol and Dostoievsky in the regime than there is of Marx.
Malcolm Muggeridge— Like It was, p.252
Every living creature is happy when he fulfills his destiny, that is, when he realizes himself, when he is being that which in truth he is. For this reason, Schlegel, inverting the relationship between pleasure and destiny, said, “We have a genius for what we like.” Genius, man’s superlative gift for doing something, always carries a look of supreme pleasure.
josé ortega y gasset— pp. 16-17 (What is Philosophy? (1964))
Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: Ye must have faith . It is a quality which the scientist cannot dispense with.
max planck— Where Is Science Going? (1932)
Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom .
jean-paul sartre— L'imagination (Imagination: A Psychological Critique) (1936)
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
thomas szasz— Childhood
The conservative realizes that many orthodox positions, once abandoned in panic because they were thought to be indefensible, are quite defensible in only one gives a little thought to basic issues. Surely one of these positions is the right of an individual or society to hold a belief which, though unreasoned, is uncontradicted.
richard weaver— “Life without prejudice,” p.13
Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves.
rebecca west— As quoted in The Sunday Telegraph, London (1975), and Rebecca West : A Life (1987) by Victoria Glendinning, p. xi
I watched the spinning stars, grateful, sad and proud, as only a man who has outlived his destiny and realizes he might yet forge himself another, can be.
roger zelazny— Isle of the Dead (1969)
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
— Albert Camus, Notebook IV in Notebooks: 1942-1951
A falling-down wreck on the edge of town, curtains permanently drawn, that would turn out to have been home to some ancient recluse who'd been surviving on ramen and toenail clippings since time immemorial, though no one realizes it until a property appraiser or an overly ambitious census taker barges in to find the poor soul returning to dust in a La-Z-Boy. People get too old to care for a place, their family writes them off for one reason or another it's sad, but it happens.
— Chapter 3, Page 79 (Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2011))
Learn to teach the children to look at this world as a beautiful symbol of Jesus; every thing, Jesus; Christ, all; Christ, in all. So shall you educate the imaginations of the children to receive, and their memories to retain and to use, that Christian truth; and you yourself shall be lifted up, as on angel's wings, to see with John things which are unspeakable, but which the sanctified imagination realizes.
— Stephen H. Tyng, Jr., p. 572. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
The wonders his eyes do are a rare a treat. Seeing, indeed, is believing. It is only when one sees him perform that one realizes how powerful the eyes are to express, to suggest and to communicate emotions and even to convey whole packages of ideas.
— K.A. Chandrahasan, in "In pursuit of excellence (Performing Arts)"
He wise man who, by means of concentration on the Self, realizes that ancient, effulgent One, who is hard to be seen, unmanifest, hidden, and who dwells in the buddhi and rests in the body–he, indeed, leaves joy and sorrow far behind.
— From the UpanishadDivine Quotes. Vedanta Society of Sacramento. Retrieved on 29 November 2013.
When the mind realizes God, it is permanently established there and does not desire other things.
— The turtle does not keep his eggs near. The fish does not go near its eggs. The bird protects its eggs by covering them always, sitting on them.
— In the manner of the tortoise, the Great Spiritual Guru helps, protects and guides his sincere disciple by concentration and observation of the behaviour of his disciples. By the blessing of the Guru the life of disciple become purposeful and develops faster on the (path of) Spiritual Progress.
From the very beginning , existentialism defined itself as a philosophy of ambiguity. It was by affirming the irreducible character of ambiguity that Kierkegaard opposed himself to Hegel , and it is by ambiguity that, in our own generation, Sartre , in Being and Nothingness , fundamentally defined man, that being whose being is not to be, that subjectivity which realizes itself only as a presence in the world , that engaged freedom , that surging of the for-oneself which is immediately given for others.
— Simone de Beauvoir, in The Ethics of Ambiguity (1947) Part I : Ambiguity and Freedom
Human interactions, stimulated as they are by disequilibrium, never achieve balance. In even the most favorable transaction, one party whether he realizes it or not must always come out the worse.
jack vance— "Morreion" (first published in Flashing Swords #1, March 1973), chapter 4
