O Quotes
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“One must realize that all who have accumulated great fortunes first did a certain amount of dreaming, hoping, wishing, desiring, and planning before they acquired money.”
Source: Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition
“One must recently have lived on or close to a college campus to have a vivid intimation of what has happened. It is there that we see how a number of energetic social innovators, plugging their grand designs, succeeded over the years in capturing the liberal intellectual imagination. And since ideas rule the world, the ideologues, having won over the intellectual class, simply walked in and started to run things. Run just about everything. There never was an age of conformity quite like this one, or a camaraderie quite like the Liberals'.”
“One must regard the hyphen as a blemish to be avoided wherever possible.”
“One must remember equality, yet also be aware of difference, for if the people are allowed to act as it pleases them without coming up against displeasure, if one gives rein to its desires without setting [any] limit, it becomes confused and can no longer take delight in anything.”
“One must remember that digital content is not equal to accessible content.”
Source: Fun IP, Fundamentals of Intellectual Property
“One must remember that the higher he climbs the spiritual ladder toward the Kingdom of Heaven, the more will he grant others their own freedom and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.”
“One must remember that the Jews have one, tiny country, the only place they have the right and capability to defend themselves by themselves. And it is our duty and my responsibility to see that we will never compromise about that.”
“One must remember that though in one sense the Other World was a definite place, yet in another the kingdom of gods was within one, Earth and fairy-land co-exist upon the same foot of ground. It was all a matter of the seeing eye...the dweller in this world can become aware of an existence on a totally different plane. To go from earth to faery is like passing from this time to eternity; it is not a journey in space, but a change of mental outlook.”
“One must renounce the bad taste of wishing to agree with many people.”
Source: Beyond Good and Evil
“One must repay good and ill; but why just to the person who did us good or ill?”
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 require from each one the duty which each one can perform. Accepted authority rests first of all on reason.”
“One must respect black. Nothing prostitutes it.”
“One must run his life and set himself apart to do that which he was born to do.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“One must savor the coffee, to actually have it.”
“One must say; be in charge of your fucking feelings and keep your mouth shut.”
“One must scratch that part of the body or mind that itches.”
“One must search diligently to find laudatory comments on education (other than those pious platitudes which are fodder for commencement speeches). It appears that most persons who have achieved fame and success in the world of ideas are cynical about formal education. These people are a select few, who often achieved success in spite of their education, or even without it. As has been said, the clever largely educate themselves, those less able aren't sufficiently clever or imaginative to benefit much from education.”
“One must see God in everyone.”
“One must see in every human being only that which is worthy of praise. When this is done, one can be a friend to the whole human race. If, however, we look at people from the standpoint of their faults, then being a friend to them is a formidable task............ .....Thus is it incumbent upon us, when we direct our gaze toward other people, to see where they excel, not where they fail.”
“One must see one's model correctly and experience it in the right way; and furthermore express oneself forcibly and with distinction.”
“One must seek the shortest way and the fastest means to get back home-to turn the spark within into a blaze, to be merged in and to identify with that greater fire which ignited the spark.”
“One must separate from anything that forces one to repeat No again and again.”
“One must seriously doubt the story that Prometheus did not expect the vulture. It is far more likely, according to modern psychology, that it was entirely for the purpose of being pecked in the liver that he stole the fire of heaven. He was a masochist; masochism, like eye coloring, is an inborn trait and nothing to be ashamed of; one should matter-of-factly indulge it and utilize it for the good of society.”
Source: A Perfect Vacuum
“One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. "Good" is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it. And how should there be a "common good"! The term contradicts itself: whatever can be common always has little value. In the end it must be as it is and always has been: great things remain for the great, abysses for the profound, nuances and shudders for the refined, and, in brief, all that is rare for the rare.”
Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche
“One must shy away from questionable undertakings, even when they bear a high-sounding name.”
Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein
“One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“One must speak about serious things seriously.”
“One must speak for a struggle for a new culture, that is, for a new moral life that cannot but be intimately connected to a new intuition of life, until it becomes a new way of feeling and seeing reality”
“One must speak for life and growth, amid all this mass of destruction and disintegration.”
Source: The Letters of D. H. Lawrence: Volume 3, October 1916–June 1921
“One must spoil as many canvases as one succeeds with.”
“One must stand stiller than still. On reverse time travel.”
“One must state it plainly. Religion comes from the period of human pre-history where nobody - not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was made from atoms - had the smallest idea what was going on.”
Source: God is Not Great
“One must steer, not talk.”
“One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.”
“One must stop conducting research before one has finished. Otherwise, one will never stop and never finish.”
“One must stop time to listen to a story.”
Source: The Book of Phoenix
“One must strike the right balance between speed and quality.”
“One must strive to be as honest as you are humanly capable with yourself and others. It is impossible to move forward otherwise.”
“One must surface slowly for all kinds of reasons.
Your lungs could explode.”
“One must take all one's life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one's life to learn how to die.”
“One must take care that one's life does not begin to resemble the plot of a novel.”
Source: The Maze at Windermere
“One must take care with those who have the wit
Not only to observe the action, but see
The thought as well!”
Source: La divina commedia
“One must take draconian measures of demographic reduction against the will of the populations. Reducing the birth rate has proved to be impossible or insufficient. One must therefore increase the mortality rate. How? By natural means. Famine and sickness”
“One must take human form to engage in human affairs. It was difficult.”
Source: When Fox is a Thousand
“One must take what comes, with laughter.”
“One must take what nature gives as one finds it.”
Source: Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb
“One must talk. That's how it is. One must.”
Source: The Vice-Consul
“One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.”
Source: Journal of a Solitude
“One must think until it hurts. One must worry a problem in one's mind until it seems there cannot be another aspect of it that hasn't been considered.”
“One must train oneself, by small and frequent efforts, to dominate one's feelings.”