O Quotes
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“One can build the Empire State Building, discipline the Prussian army, make a state hierarchy mightier than God, yet fail to overcome the unaccountable superiority of certain human beings.”
“One can buy anything with money except morality.”
“One can carry out the vyavahaar (the relative; worldly interactions) only to the extent of one's intrinsic nature.”
Source: Whatever Has Happened is Justice
“One can change the small minds, but it is tad difficult to do it with the small heart whose soul is in small mind only.”
“One can choose life, or choose death. Having chosen life, I must live it as it is.”
Source: Even a Stone Can be a Teacher: Learning and Growing from the Experiences of Everyday Life
“One can choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.”
“One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.”
“One can choose to obsess over prescriptive rules, but they have no more to do with human language than the criteria for judging cats at a cat show have to do with mammalian biology.”
Source: The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
“One can choose two orientations in life. The first orientation inlife is the worldly and mundane orientation. The second orientation in life is the spiritual way.
The worldly and mundane way means that one can succeed in having much money, power, status, prestige and possessions, but inside one will remain empty, alone and miserable. Life becomes a vegetation between birth and death, but there will be no real joy in life. The worldly way means to be part of the collective unconscious masses of people.
The spiritual way means that you are trying to be an individual. It means to live your own life. It means to trust yourself and to live your life according to your heart, joy, truth, freedom and creativity.
To live the spiritual way is insecure and dangerous. The unconscious masses will condemn you, because the spiritual way will not bring you power, money and status in society, but it will bring you joy. It will be a life of love, silence, truth, beauty and creativity. Things that arenot values by society. The world values money, power, prime ministers, presidents, politicians, priests, Adolf Hitler, Napoleon, Alexander theGreat and war.
The world condemns poets, musicians, intellectuals, authors and meditators, because they seem to be vagabonds, lazy and useless in the eyes of the worldly people. To live a spiritual life, one has to accept these condemnations from people who only value money, power and possessions.
A meditator has to live a life of love, silence, truth, freedom, non-political and egoless. The meditator has to live his life with love, joy and truth. The meditator has to live and die with joy and acceptance. Then he has achieved something that even death cannot take away from him. Only then he will enjoy life to the fullest.”
Source: Meditation: A Love Affair with the Whole - Thousand and One Flowers of Silence, Love, Joy, Truth, Freedom, Beauty and the Divine
“One can cite cases of Negroes who opposed emancipation and denounced the abolitionists.”
Source: The Mis-Education of the Negro
“One can compare art education to the solid foundation for a house - once it's built properly, it will hold any shape or form you will place on it.”
“One can contrive a religious motivation for virtually any choice of action, from commitment to the highest ideals to support for the most horrendous atrocities. In the sacred texts, we can find uplifting calls for peace, justice and mercy, along with the most genocidal passages in the literary canon. Conscience is our guide, whatever trappings we might choose to clothe it in.”
“One can convert only a sinner, never a saint.”
“One can convert the sound of a conch in groaning. That groan is of dead conch”
Source: শ্রীমরা রচিত কথন
“One can criticize the Israeli government, but it is not fair to judge the people of Israel.”
“One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society, and act in accordance with that decision, only if one has already decided that society is a giant machine”
“One can defend common sense against the attacks of philosophers only by solving their puzzles, i.e., by curing them of the temptation to attack common sense.”
“One can delineate the domain of philosophy however one likes, but in its search for truth, philosophy is always concerned with human existence. Authentic philosophizing refuses to remain at the stage of knowledge […]. Care for human existence and its truth makes philosophy a 'practical science' in the deepest sense, and it also leads philosophy—and this is the crucial point—into the concrete distress of human existence.”
“One can derive the same fun from print-making as from making mud pies and great subtlety can be achieved through the use of transparent inks, half-tone screens and even accidental colour combinations, which is often where the art hides.”
“One can descend by imperceptible degree from the most perfect creature to the most shapeless matter, from the best-organised animal to the roughest mineral.”
“One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.”
“One can describe them as a boa: when it feels threatened, it runs to somewhere else.”
“One can develop new capacities and strengths with which to meet the natural vicissitudes of living; that one may gain a sense of inner peace through greater self-acceptance, through a more realistic perspective on one's relationships and experiences.”
Source: How to survive parenthood
“One can discern a few very general myths that facilitate the birth of further myths: that everything is possible; that whatever we have failed to explain in normal and earthly terms must have paranormal or supernatural explanations; and that science, being rational, cannot explain the irrational, such as taste and love.”
“One can discover true bliss in nature’s stillness.”
Source: Twenty + One - 21 Short Stories
“One can disintegrate the world by means of very strong light. For weak eyes the world becomes solid, for still weaker eyes it seems to develop fists, for eyes weaker still it becomes shamefaced and smashes anyone who dares to gaze upon it.”
Source: Wedding preparations in the country: and other posthumous prose writings. With notes by Max Brod
“One can do good things without being very much of a harmonist or a colourist. It is sufficient to have a sense of art - and this sense is doubtless the horror of the bourgeois.”
“One can do something if one can see and understand it.”
Source: Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters
“One can do such lovely things with so little. Subjects that are too beautiful end by appearing theatrical.”
“One can do without solutions. Only the questions matter. We may share them or turn away from them.”
“One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.”
“One can easily forget his destination when walking in a marvellous path towards his destination! The attraction of the path can be much stronger than the attraction of the target!”
“One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor”
“One can either work or meet. One cannot do both at the same time.”
Source: Management
“One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.”
Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard
“One can enjoy a rainbow without necessarily forgetting the forces that made it.”
Source: Stormfield Edition of the Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.].: Europe and elsewhere
“One can enjoy a wood fire worthily only when he warms his thoughts by it as well as his hands and feet.”
“One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.”
“One can execute several dimensions of meanings; however, home demonstrates that, where one feels, love, respect, justice, peace, and care that, display the values as a bar of gold. Whereas, the same terms, define as a diamond, where one was born”
“One can expect an agreement between philosophers sooner than between clocks.”
Source: Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina
“One can expect the human race to continue attempting systems just within or just beyond our reach; and software systems are perhaps the most intricate and complex of man's handiworks. The management of this complex craft will demand our best use of new languages and systems, our best adaptation of proven engineering management methods, liberal doses of common sense, and a God-given humility to recognize our fallibility and limitations.”
“One can experience loneliness in two ways: by feeling lonely in the world or by feeling the loneliness of the world.”
“One can fall in love and still hate.”
“One can fall in love as often as a tree grows leaves. It is perfectly natural but not free of guilt and complications, unless one takes oneself to be a leaf.”
“One can fall into the soft bigotry of low expectations.”
“One can feel calm and at ease. Just leave kids alone, please.”
“One can feel, cry, and write, on painful and injustice occurrences; however, one can't apply positivity to those idiots, who breathe in selfishness and live in idiocy.”
“One can feel obliged to look at phototgraphs that record great cruelties and crimes. One should feel obliged to think about what it means to look at them, about the capacity actually to assimilate what they show. Not all reactions to these pictures are under the supervision of reason and conscience.”
Source: Regarding the Pain of Others
“One can feel the immense joy of Amy Hill Hearth's engagement in her first novel. It radiates through every scene and through every page. Sometimes, an exceptional writer finds an exceptional premise, and the result is a truly exceptional book. Such is the case with Miss Dreamsville...The writing is brilliant, especially the dialogue through which the characters are defined.”
“One can feel the urge, the need to give, coming from within him. He is such a pure and true person. It’s my deepest, most heartfelt conviction that Michael Jackson is a good person, a fine young man with an incredible burden - responsibility - to carry on his shoulders.”