Complete quotations of authors whose names start with I

• Iamblichus

  1. Thus the Neoplatonists resolutely reaffirmed the PYTHAGOREAN conviction that MATHEMATICS had a decisive heuristic value as regards man's search for the patterns of the physical world. In the early fourth century Iamblichus credited the Pythagoreans with making mathematics a principle for all that can be observed in the cosmos. Defining mathematics as the "PROGNOSTIC SCIENCE of NATURE". Iamblichus stated that he search for causes, or the causal approach to nature consisted "in positing mathematical things as causes" from which the objects in the perceptible world arise. His was the Pythagorean belief that only what was possible in mathematics was possible in the structure of nature, and nothing could exist that implied a mathematical impossibility. He formulated a program that had a ring strongly reminiscent of some aspirations of twentieth-century physics,
  2. I believe we can attach mathematically everything in nature and in the world of change.

• Ikeda, Daisaku

  1. HISTORY shows that the truly great and epoch-making philosophers, thinkers, and revolutionaries of the world first acquainted themselves with the finest culture and ideology of their time before going on to transcend it and establish their own original system of PHILOSOPHY.
  2. The major problems of religion and philosophy are attempting to understand the relation of the individual being and the universe and trying to devise ways for the individual self to relate VOLITIONALLY to the universe.

• Illich, Ivan D

  1. The more the citizen is trained in the CONSUMPTION of packaged goods and services, the less effective he seems to become in shaping his environment.
  2. In a CONSUMER SOCIETY there are inevitably two kinds of SLAVES: the Prisoners of ADDICTION and the PRISONERS of ENVY.

• Inge, William Ralph [Dean Inge]

  1. DEMORACY is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting VOTES instead of WEIGHING them.
  2. The aim of EDUCATION is the KNOWLEDGE not of facts but of values.
  3. The enemies of FREEDOM do not argue; the shout and SHOOT.
  4. LITERATURE flourishes best when it is half a trade half an art.
  5. The NATIONS which have put mankind and posterity most in their DEBT have been small states - Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England.
  6. Our test is infallible. Whatever view of REALITY deepens our sense of the tremendous issues of life in the world wherein we move, is for us NEARER the TRUTH than any view which diminishes that sense.
  7. To become a popular RELIGION it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a PHILOSOPHY.
  8. A man may build himself a THRONE of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.

• Ionesco, Eugene

  It isn't what people THINK that is important, but the reason they think what they think.

• Irving, John

  Good habits are worth being FANATIC about.

• Irving, Washington

  There is never JEALOUSY where there is not strong regard.

• Isherwood, Cristopher William Bradshaw

  1. Isherwood has always maintained that he is very happy with his sexual preference. Although Auden once baited him by calling him a 'repressed HETEROSEXUAL, Isherwood offers his own definition of what it means to be a HOMOSEXUAL: 'It seems to me that the real clue to your SEX ORIENTATION lies in your romantic feelings rather than your sexual feelings. If you are really a gay, you are able to fall in love with a man, not just enjoy having sex with him.

• Issa

  The world is but a single DEWDROP
  set trembling on a stem; and yet  . . .
  		          and yet  . . .
  

• Itten, Johannes

  If you, UNKNOWING, are able to CREATE masterpieces in colour, then UNKNOWLEDGE is your way. But if you are unable to create masterpieces in colour our of your unknowledge, then you ought to look for KNOWLEDGE.