O Quotes
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“One must in this lower world love many things to know finally what one loves the best.”
“One must indeed be ignorant of the methods of genius to suppose that it allows itself to be cramped by forms. Forms are for mediocrity, and it is fortunate that mediocrity can act only according to routine. Ability takes its flight unhindered.”
Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut
“One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.”
“One must keep a few smiles aside to laugh at oneself on joyless days.”
“One must keep one's eyes and ears open, one must know how to match up the facts, see similarity where others see total difference, remember that certain events occur at various levels or, to put it another way, many incidents are aspects of the same, single occurrence. And that the world is a great big net, it is a whole, where no single thing exists separately; every scrap of the world, every last tiny piece, is bound up with the rest by a complex Cosmos of correspondences, hard for the ordinary mind to penetrate.”
Source: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
“One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one.”
Source: Mark Twain Speaks for Himself
“One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one. From the code of morals I have been following and revising and revising for 72 years I remember one detail. All my life I have been honest - comparatively honest. I could never use money I had not made honestly - I could only lend it.”
“One must keep repeating the Truth.”
“One must keep working continuously; otherwise, one thinks of death.”
“One must know and recognize not merely the direct but the secret power of the word.”
“One must know combinations, one must have a true knowledge of food to be in the moment.”
“One must know how to conserve oneself- the best test of independence.”
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 must know how to disregard the vehicle of the idea in order to consider its motivation alone.”
“One must know not just how to accept a gift, but with what grace to share it.”
“One must know one's own secret.”
“One must know ones enemy as he is, not as one, for whatever motives, wishes him to be.”
“One must know oneself as one is, not as one wishes to be, which is merely an ideal and therefore fictitious, unreal; it is only that which is that can be transformed, not that which you wish to be.”
Source: The First and Last Freedom
“One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.”
Source: Pensées
“One must know the so-called 'lesson of a downpour. A man, caught in a sudden rain en route, dashes along the road not to get wet or drenched. Once one takes it for granted that in rain he naturally gets wet, he can be in a tranquil frame of mind even when soaked to the skin. This lesson applies to everything.”
Source: The Hagakure - The Way of the Samurai
“One must know when it is right to doubt, to affirm, to submit. Anyone who does otherwise does not understand the force of reason. Some men run counter to these three principles, either affirming that everything can be proved, because they know nothing about proof, or doubting everything, because they do not know when to submit, or always submitting, because they do not know when judgment is called for.”
Source: Pensées
“One must laugh and weep, love, work, enjoy and suffer, in short vibrate as much as possible in all his being.”
Source: The Complete Works of Gustave Flaubert: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Memoirs and Letters: Original Versions of the Novels and Stories in French, An Interactive Bilingual Edition with Literary Essays on Flaubert by Guy de Maupassant, Virginia Woolf, Henry James, D.H. Lawrence
“One must laugh before one is happy, or one may die without ever laughing at all.”
“One must learn an inner solitude, where or with whomsoever he may be. He must learn to penetrate things and find God there, to get a strong impression of God firmly fixed on his mind.”
Source: Celebrated 14th Century Mystic and Scholastic Meister Eckhart
“One must learn an inner solitude, wherever or with whomsoever he may be.”
“One must learn, simply, to be.”
Source: Roam Within: Macallah and the White World of Light
“One must learn the rules so one can break them properly.”
“One must learn to be a sponge if one wants to be loved by hearts that overflow.”
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“One must learn to be grateful for one's own findings.”
“One must learn to be rich. To be poor, anyone can manage.”
“One must learn to be silent just as one must learn to talk.”
“One must learn to be simple, anyone can manage to be complex.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“One must learn to care for oneself first, so that one can then dare to care for someone else.”
Source: Conversations with Maya Angelou
“One must learn to forgive and not to hold a hostile, bitter attitude of mind, which offends those about us and prevents us from enjoying ourselves. One must recognize human shortcomings and adjust himself to them rather than to be constantly finding fault with them.”
Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut
“One must learn to give up momentary, uncertain and destructive pleasure for delayed, restrained, but dependable pleasure.”
“one must learn to live with the living before one can learn to live with the dead.”
“One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam.”
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it, like any knight of the grail, and the journey is always towards the other soul, not away from it. . . . To love you have to learn to understand the other, more than she understands herself, and to submit to her understanding of you. It is damnably difficult and painful, but it is the only thing which endures.”
“One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.”
Source: The Letters of D. H. Lawrence
“One must learn to read, just as one must learn to see and learn to live.”
Source: Vincent van Gogh
“One must learn to tolerate and live with the silence before one is ready to talk the talk of the angels.”
Source: The Love of Devotion
“One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness”
“One must leave an inheritance to their next generation in form of safer environment.”
“One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand.”
“One must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can't do anything about them.”
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird
“One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.”
“One must live each day with love, energy, and passion. Our goals and dreams will navigate our path. Never ever stop believing that we were born to be Great!”
“One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse.”
Source: Arctic Dreams
“One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once, life would collapse. There are simply no definitive answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.”
“One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.”
“One must live to build one's house, and not build one's house to live in.”