O Quotes
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“One can study what exists and how consciousness functions; but one cannot analyze (or “prove”) existence as such, or consciousness as such. These are irreducible primaries. (An attempt to “prove” them is self-contradict ory: it is an attempt to “prove” existence by means of nonexistence, and consciousness by means of unconsciousness .)”
“One can succeed at almost anything for which he has enthusiasm.”
“One can suffer a convulsion of one's entire nature, and, unless it makes some noise, no one notices. It's not just that we are incurious; we completely lack any sense of each other's existences.”
“One can summon courage and fortitude to face tragedy; irritations and frustrations are a cloud of mosquitoes that nip and sting and drive one frantic.”
“One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.”
“One can’t allow a man to have his way all the time.” She paused reflectively. “Once Lord Berwick told me that when a horse pulls at the reins, one should never pull back. Instead, loosen them. But never more than an inch.”
Source: Cold-Hearted Rake
“One can't always choose the right answer. Haven't you ever made the wrong choice? The wrong choice itself isn't the problem. You should take responsibility for the outcome of your actions. If you leave it to the invisible forces to clean up after you, the consequences of it will become even harder to control.”
Source: Piekarnia czarodzieja
“One can't do anything without a man. Men know so much, and are able to get information in so many ways that are simply impossible to women.”
“One can't get bored with sex. But one is bored with making such a tremendous issue about it.”
“One can’t have everything in this world; be content with the greatest of joys: health.”
Source: Chopin's Letters
“One can't have literary comprehension without real experience, mere grammatical knowledge of the words is useless without recognition of their values, and when you young people want to understand a country and its language you should start by seeing it at its most beautiful, in the strength of its youth, at its most passionate. You should begin by hearing the language in the mouths of the poets who create and perfect it, you must have felt poetry warm and alive in your hearts before we smart anatomizing it.”
“One can't possibly know what a person is really like by the end of a fortnight," He quietly observed.”
Source: Something About Lizzy: Family Secrets Post-Pride and Prejudice
“One can't reason away regret-it's a bit like falling in love, falling into regret.”
Source: The Human Factor
“One can't step into the river twice”
Source: Call Me the Canyon: A Novel
“One can’t stop and suddenly speak to a complete stranger, can one?......When it happens I could die of sadness. I feel somehow empty and drained....”
“One can't stop people from killing themselves if they're determined to. It may even be wrong to do so.”
Source: The Black Prince
“One can't work/by limelight.//A bowlful/right at/one's elbow//produces no/more than/a baleful/glow against/the kitchen table.//The fruit purveyor's/whole unstable/pyramid//doesn't equal/what daylight did.”
“One can take a neon tube and simply paint it black on the front. So it would read as a black letter or a line, but it would also read as neon because there would be light coming from behind that black letter.”
“One can take eternity and time to be predicates of God since, being the Ancient of Days, He is the cause of all time and eternity. Yet He is before time and beyond time and is the source of the variety of time and of the seasons. Or again, He precedes the eternal ages, for He is there before eternity and above eternity, and 'His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom' (Ps. 145:13). Amen.”
“One can talk good and shower down roses, but it's the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its false expectations.”
“One can tell a child everything, anything. I have often been struck by the fact that parents know their children so little. They should not conceal so much from them. How well even little children understand that their parents conceal things from them, because they consider them too young to understand! Children are capable of giving advice in the most important matters.”
“One can tell a great deal about a country by what it remembers. By what graces the wall of its museums. And what monuments have privileged placement in parks or central traffic intersections. And what holidays and patriotic songs are the bane and balm to generations of school children. Yet one learns even more about a nation by what it forgets. What moments of evil, disappointment, and defeat are downplayed or eliminated from the national narratives. Often in the United States the issues of race and the centrality of African American culture are given short shrift in textbooks, popular chronicles, and national memories.”
Source: A Fool's Errand: Creating the National Museum of African American History and Culture in the Age of Bush, Obama, and Trump
“One can tell or do whatever one wants when one is in the Opposition but once one is running a state, one cannot do that.”
“One can think effectively only when one is willing to endure suspense and to undergo the trouble of searching.”
“One can think of a secretary actively operating a filing system, of a librarian actively cataloguing books, of a computer actively sorting out information. The mind however does not actively sort out information. The information sorts itself out and organises itself into patterns. The mind is passive. The mind only provides an opportunity for the information to behave in this way. The mind provides a special environment in which information can become self-organising. This special environment is a memory surface with special characteristics.”
Source: Lateral Thinking: Creativity Step by Step
“One can thus state, without fear of being wrong, that every truly artistic production has been conceived and executed according to the principle of irregularity.”
“One can, to be sure, program a digital machine in such a way as to be able to carry on a conversation with it, as if with an intelligent partner. The machine will employ, as the need arises, the pronoun “I” and all its grammatical inflections. This, however, is a hoax! The machine will still be closer to a billion chattering parrots—howsoever brilliantly trained the parrots be—than to the simplest, most stupid man. It mimics the behavior of a man on the purely linguistic plane and nothing more.”
Source: A Perfect Vacuum
“One can transform a place by reading in it.”
“One can translate an editorial but not a poem. For one can go across the border naked but not without one's skin; for, unlike clothes, one cannot get a new skin.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“One can travel the world and experience a lot of different things. But until all corners of the mind are openly explored does one gain deeper insight to the essence of living!~”
“One can travel this world and see nothing. To achieve understanding it is necessary not to see many things, but to look hard at what you do see.”
“One can truly say that the irresistible progress of natural science since the time of Galileo has made its first halt before the study of the higher parts of the brain, the organ of the most complicated relations of the animal to the external world. And it seems, and not without reason, that now is the really critical moment for natural science; for the brain, in its highest complexity-the human brain-which created and creates natural science, itself becomes the object of this science.”
“One can try to mask bad behavior as a reaction to a perceived act of criminality; that is the easiest way to justify throwing the rules of law out the window.”
“One can understand a person by the way he removes his wallet and puts his hand to take out money.”
“One can understand nature only when one has learned the language and the signs in which it speaks to us; but this language is mathematics and these signs are methematical figures.”
“One can understand sufficiently and precisely; however, it cannot always explain that simply as one understands love completely; whereas, it can't explain rightly and logically that.”
“One can understand the politics of that at this moment. It's an effort to buy time for a constituency of workers who have really been suffering in the last 20 years, and who need to be prepared and be given time to prepare for a transition to a very different type of employment that we may moving on to in the coming decades.”
“One can understand why Surrealism was not afraid to make for itself a tenet of total revolt, complete insubordination, of sabotage according to rule, and why it still expects nothing save from violence.”
“One can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 kinds of cheese.”
“One can usually put one's thoughts better in one's own words.”
Source: Their Finest Hour
“One can wait for its goal and time; whereas, another may not require that for its prospect; consequently, failure becomes the fate”
“One can watch hours and hours of TV without actually losing interest, but, as with Chinese food, one is rarely left with much residue of nourishment.”
“One can win the attention and time and cooperation of even the most sought-after people by becoming genuinely interested in them.”
Source: How to Win Friends and Influence People
“One can with dignity be wife and widow but once.”
Source: Pensées of Joubert
“One can work better to do things in comfort and for comfort. Need money, and for money, one has to work. So farming appeals to the independent mind. One is at least self-employed.”
“One can write out of love or hate. Hate tells one a great deal about a person. Love makes one become the person. Love, contrary to legend, is not half as blind, at least for writing purposes, as hate. Love can see the evil and not cease to be love. Hate cannot see the good and remain hate. The writer, writing out of hatred, will, thus, paint a far more partial picture than if he had written out of love.”
Source: To see the dream
“One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric.”
“One can't allow blind loyalty to a friendship to lead one away from acting in the public interest. If Martin [Schulz] were to propose something that was totally absurd, our friendship would not prevent me from doing the opposite.”
“One can't be angry when one looks at a penguin.”
Source: The Correspondence of John Ruskin and Charles Eliot Norton
“One can't be free without action.”
Source: Lamb: A Novel