O Quotes
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“One is never too old for romance.”
“One is never wholly conscious of the greed hidden in one's heart until one hears the sweet sound of silver.”
“One is never wounded by the love one gives, only by the love one expects.”
“One’ is not a doer in this world. Where he believes that he is the doer, there is ‘charging’ (of karma). When one tastes egoistic pride of, “I did this samayik, I did these activities”, he will ‘charge’ (karma). The taste of egoistic pride is very sweet.”
“One is not a great one because one defeats or harms other living beings. One is so called because one refrains from defeating or harming other living beings.”
“One is not allowed a grief for a life never lived. Yet one has buried the fruit of love, and a great deal of hope and many dreams.”
“One is not allowed freedom, that is a contradiction. One is born free and his rights are only constrained by an amount he consents to.”
“One is not always happy when one is good; but one is always good when one is happy.”
Source: Epigrams of Oscar Wilde
“One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.”
Source: The Second Sex
“One is not born English without knowing how to converse easily about the weather.”
Source: Dark Road to Darjeeling
“One is not born free; one becomes free.”
Source: Liberal Socialism
“One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.”
“One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. No biological, psychological, or economic fate determines the figure that the human female presents in society; it is civilization as a whole that produces this creature, intermediate between male and eunuch, which is described as feminine.”
Source: The Second Sex
“One is not called noble who harms living beings. By not harming living beings one is called noble.”
“One is not conceived a lady, one turns into one.”
“One is not converted to christianity; one must be morbid enough for it.”
Source: Twilight of the Idols and the Antichrist
“One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.”
“One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.”
Source: Les Misérables
“One is not likely to achieve understanding from the explanation of another.”
Source: The unfettered mind: writings of the Zen master to the sword master
“One is not loved accidentally; one’s own power to love produces love - just as being interested makes one interesting. People are concerned with the question of whether they are attractive while they forget that the essence of attractiveness is their own capacity to love. To love a person productively implies to care and to feel responsible for his life, not only for his physical existence but for the growth and development of all his human powers. To love productively is incompatible with being passive, with being an onlooker at the loved person’s life; it implies labor and care and the responsibility for his growth.”
Source: Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics
“One is not low because of birth nor does birth make one holy. Deeds alone make one low, deeds alone make one holy.”
“One is not necessarily made self-centered because he is foolish, but one is very often made foolish because he is self-centered.”
Source: Healology
“One is not old until Dreams become Regrets.”
“One is not oneself every day-fortunately.”
“One is not quite certain that creativeness in the arts, literature, and science functions best in an environment of absolute freedom. Chances are that a relatively mild tyranny stimulates creativeness.”
“One is not really a photographer until preoccupation with learning has been outgrown and the camera in his hands is an extension of himself. This is where creativity begins.”
“One is not rich by what one owns, but more by what one is able to do without with dignity.”
“One is not righteous who does much, but the one who, without work, believes much in Christ. The law says, 'Do this,' and it is never done. Grace says, 'Believe in this,' and everything is already done.”
Source: Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings
“One is not struck by the truth until prompted quite accidentally by some external event.”
Source: The Remains of the Day
“One is not superior merely because one sees the world as odious.”
“One is not the doer at all. Vyavasthit (scientific circumstantial evidences) is the doer. I have revealed this knowledge and that is why we refer to it as the 'lift' (elevator) path!”
Source: Who am I?
“One is not the victim of mentation but instead is the very originator by virtue of intention to extract projected value. With this understanding, one is free from being dominated by the false "I" of the experiencer.”
“One is not to win the world, he has to win the home (family).”
“One is not unpopular because he uses peculiar expressions; that just so happens; such terms become a fad, and by and by everybody, down to the last simpleton, uses them. But a person who follows through an idea in his mind is, and always will be, essentially unpopular. That is why Socrates was unpopular, though he did not use any special terms, for to grasp and hold his 'ignorance' requires greater vital effort than understanding the whole of Hegel's philosophy.”
“One is not worthy to have what one, through weakness, lets be taken from him; one is not worthy of it because one is not capable of it.”
Source: Stirner: The Ego and Its Own
“One is often guilty by being too just.”
“One is often so busy doing life that it is easy to avoid evaluating whether you are putting your energy in the direction you value most.”
“One is often told that it is a very wrong thing to attack religion, because religion makes men virtuous. So I am told; I have not noticed it.”
“One is often unconsciously surrounded by one’s own personal reality”
“One is only as good as one is useful.”
Source: The governess
“One is only as smart as the knowledge one acquires.”
“One is only happy in proportion as he makes others feel happy and only useful as he contributes his influences for the finer callings in life.”
“One is only happy in proportion as he makes others feel happy.”
“One is only poor, only if they choose to be.”
“One is only really inwardly comfortable, so to speak, after one's life has assumed some sort of shape. Not just a routine, like studying or a job or being a housewife, but something more complete than all those, which would include goals set by oneself and a circle of life-time type friends. I think this is one of the hardest things to achieve, in fact often just trying doesn't achieve it but rather it seems to develop almost by accident.”
“One is proposing a future to us, one does so by condemning the past. It is into this future also that we want to see clearly. It is these principles that we would like to look at directly. For we already foresee that these new ethics refer to a strange universe, a universe with something sick about it, an elastic universe where our eyes no longer recognize things: but a universe which is that of others, precisely that of which Bernanos had a presentiment when he feared that one day the dreams, locked up in the sly brain of a small Negro shoeshiner in a New York ghetto, would come true. We are there. Our minds are doped. We have been struck by Circe. We have all become Jewish.”
“One is proud to worship when he cannot be an idol.”
“One is punished best for one's virtues.”
Source: BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL - Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future: The Critique of the Traditional Morality and the Philosophy of the Past
“One is punished by the very things by which he sins.”
“One is quite astonished to find how many things there are in the landscape, and in every object in it, one never noticed before. And this is a tremendous new pleasure and interest which invests every walk or drive with an added object. So many colours on the hillside, each different in shadow and in sunlight; such brilliant reflections in the pool, each a key lower than what they repeat; such lovely lights gilding or silvering surface or outline, all tinted exquisitely with pale colour, rose, orange, green or violet.”
Source: Thoughts and Adventures: Churchill Reflects on Spies, Cartoons, Flying, and the Future