W Quotes
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“When one encounters enough strangeness, then what is strange ultimately becomes familiar.
The mind can accommodate itself to almost anything, given time: pain, grief, loss, even the possibility that the dead talk to the living.”
Source: The Burning Soul
“When one encounters truth, one encounters the God whose truth it is.”
“When one existentially awakens from within, the relation of birth-and-death is not seen as a sequential change from the former to the latter. Rather, living as it is, is no more than dying, and at the same time there is no living separate from dying. This means that life itself is death and death itself is life. That is, we do not shift sequentially from birth to death, but undergo living-dying in each and every moment.”
Source: A Study of Dogen: His Philosophy and Religion
“When one experiences truth, the madness of finding fault with others disappears.”
“When one eye is fixed upon your destination, there is only one eye left with which to find the Way.”
Source: Zen in the Martial Arts
“When one faces pain on a daily basis, one either learns to live with it or let it consume him.”
Source: Heir of Ashes
“When one falls his shadow always embraces him, and his empty place is already someone else's.
Kushal Poddar, Poet”
“When one feels no shame in telling a deliberate lie, there is no evil, I tell you, he will not do.”
“When one feels oneself smitten by love for a woman, one ought to say to oneself, “What are her surroundings? What has been her life? All one’s future happiness lies in the answer.”
Source: Swann’s Way
“When one fib becomes due as it were, you must forge another to take up the old acceptance; and so the stock of your lies in circulation inevitably multiplies, and the danger of detection increases every day.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)
“When one fights against corruption he is actually powerless. When he wins his fight he feels empowered. When he is empowered there appears a spelling error of the word empowered - IMP + POWERED and then the IMP finally disappears.”
“When one finds oneself in the kind of strange, unsettling circumstances as I presently find myself, it is only natural, after all, to have a few, unusual, vivid dreams.”
Source: Four Kings
“When one first seeks the truth, one separates oneself from it.”
“When one flower blooms spring awakens everywhere”
“When one focuses on metaphor as product, problems surface as to whether a metaphor should be considered as a testable model of reality or taken literally when used poetically. On the other hand, focusing on the metaphor as process shows how metaphorising is hierarchical in nature, from the cognitive levels of subliminally sensate to conceptual to linguistic expression.”
Source: The Poem as Icon: A Study in Aesthetic Cognition
“When one followed a calling, passion was often a driving force greater than self-assuredness.”
Source: The Spectral City
“When one forgets the distinction between method and truth, one becomes foolishly prone to respond to any question that cannot be answered from the vantage of one's particular methodological perch by dismissing it as nonsensical, or by issuing a promissory note guaranteeing a solution to the problem at some juncture in the remote future, or by simply distorting the question into one that looks like the kind one really can answer after all.”
“When one gets beaten by somebody better, one has to know how to lose with humility. Sure, I could have served better. Sure, I could have hit my forehand harder. But the truth was this was like an avalanche, and there was no way to stop it.”
“When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.”
“When one gets old and they are sick, there are not many things they can count on but they should be able to count on Social Security. Our seniors' retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.”
“When one gets reports from scientists, engineers and technicians whose credibility by all common standards is high and whose moral caliber seems to preclude a hoax, one can do no less than hear them out, in all seriousness.”
“When one gets to Clement or Hippolytus, we are clearly a long way from what we find in Paul and the Gospels, where the influence of the Passover is still strongly present and the meal is seen as a family meal, taken in the home, a memorial meal to remember Jesus’ death until his return...Here then is a cautionary reminder — the less Jewish the approach one takes to the Lord’s Supper, the more likely one is to be wrong about one’s assessment of what is the case about the elements.”
Source: Making a Meal of It: Rethinking the Theology of the Lord's Supper
“When one gives, two get happy.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“When one gives up Christian belief one thereby deprives oneself of the right to Christian morality. For the latter is absolutely not self-evident: one must make this point clear again and again, in spite of English shallowpates.”
“When one gives up on possibility or prospects of personal growth aligning with Nation’s, one tends to become coercive to attain growth OR destructive to bring the rest down including the Nation.”
Source: The Twelfth Preamble: To all the authors to be!
“When one gives up the Christian faith, one pulls the right to Christian morality out from under one's feet... Christianity is a system, a whole view of things thought out together. By breaking one main concept out of it, the faith in God, one breaks the whole: nothing necessary remains in one's hands. Christianity presupposes that man does not know, cannot know, what is good for him, what evil: he believes in God, who alone knows it... it has truth only if God is the truth — it stands and falls with faith in God.”
Source: Twilight of the Idols
“When one gives up the Christian faith, one pulls the right to Christian morality out from under one's feet. This morality is by no means self-evident. Christianity is a system, a whole view of things thought out together. By breaking one main concept out of it, the faith in God, one breaks the whole. It stands or falls with faith in God.”
Source: Twilight of the Idols
“When one gives whatever one can without restraint, the barriers of individuality break down. It no longer becomes possible to tell whether it is the student offering himself to the teacher, or the teacher offering herself to the student. One sees only two immaculate beings, reflecting one another like a pair of brilliant mirrors.”
“When one goes to see Modern Times, for instance, one understands much more about socialism than listening to the man who was then head of the Socialist movement in Italy.”
“When one great passion seizes possession of the soul all other feelings are crowded out.”
“When One Great Scorer comes to write against your name, He marks, not that you won or lost, but how you played the game.”
“When one group rules another, the relationship between the two is political. When such an arrangement is carried out over a long period of time it develops an ideology (feudalism, racism, etc.). All historical civilizations are patriarchies: their ideology is male supremacy.”
“When one guy sees an invisible man he's a nut case; ten people see him it's a cult; ten million people see him it's a respected religion.”
“When one has a crisis of faith it means one is struck by the realisation than one has been pretending know things that one doesn't know.”
“When one has a decisive realization of the inherent nature of the mind, which has no ego, it has no sense of duality between oneself and the cup, and a deep sense of interpenetration of the whole dharma. Then whatever we do is spontaneously perfect Buddha activity. And anybody who is even slightly tuned in will get a very deep experience of that.”
“When one has a famishing thirst for happiness, one is apt to gulp down diversions wherever they are offered.”
“When one has a grateful heart, life is so beautiful.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.”
Source: Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
“When one has a mighty opponent that can't be defeated, it is wiser to become its friend rather than an enemy.
-Emit Eht”
Source: Emit Eht
“When one has achieved the object of one's desires, it is evident that one's real desire was not the ignorant possession of the desired object but to know it as possessed--as actually contemplated, as within one.”
Source: The Essential Plotinus
“When one has an image about oneself one is surely insane, one lives in a world of illusion.”
Source: Flight of the Eagle
“When one has an urge to say something but wouldn't quite know 'what' & 'how' .. it is better to let it remain unsaid.”
“When one has apparently made up one’s mind to spend the evening at home and has donned one’s house-jacket and sat down at the lamplit table after supper and do the particular job or play the particular game on completion of which one is in the habit of going to bed, when the weather out is so unpleasant as to make staying in the obvious choice, when one has been sitting quietly at the table for so long already that one’s leaving must inevitably provoke general astonishment, when the stairwell is in any case in darkness and the street door locked, and when in spite of all this one stands up, suddenly ill at ease, changes one’s coat, reappears immediately in street clothes, announces that one has to go out and after a brief farewell does so, feeling that one has left behind one a degree of irritation commensurate with the abruptness with which one slammed the apartment door, when one then finds oneself in the street possessed of limbs that respond to the quite unexpected freedom one has procured for them with out-of-the-ordinary agility, when in the wake of this one decision one feels capable, deep down, of taking any decision, when one realizes with a greater sense of significance than usual that one has, after all, more ability than one has need easily to effect and endure the most rapid change, and when in this frame of mind one walks the long city streets—then for that evening one has stepped completely outside one’s family, which veers into inessentiality, while one’s own person, rock solid, dark with definition, thighs thrusting rhythmically, assumes it true form.
The whole experience is enhanced when at that late hour one looks up a friend to see how he is.”
Source: The Complete Stories
“When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour.”
Source: I Too Am Here: Selections from the Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle
“When one has children one has no privacy. They take it for granted that what is yours is theirs, personal things and the secrets of your heart, as well as possessions.”
Source: Road Rage: (A Wexford Case)
“When one has come to accept a certain course as duty he has a pleasant sense of relief and of lifted responsibility, even if the course involves pain and renunciation. It is like obedience to some external authority; any clear way, though it lead to death, is mentally preferable to the tangle of uncertainty.”
Source: Human Nature and the Social Order
“When one has come to explore the ' instant moment ' and one has chosen to savor the delights of life, which are hidden behind the curtain of haste and superficiality, then ' mental time ' is replacing ' sequential time '. So ' here ' and ' now ' are keeping hustle and impatience in check. (" Just for a moment ")”
“When one has discipline and constancy, success is predictable.”
Source: 8 Types of Leaders: Every Leader Should Know
“When one has extensively pondered about men, as a career or as a vocation, one sometimes feels nostalgic for primates. At least they do not have ulterior motives.”
“When one has faith that the spring thaw will arrive, the winter winds seem to lose some of their punch.”