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One Quotes by Black Elk
- One should pay attention to even the smallest crawling creature for these too may have a valuable lesson to teach us.
- The Universe is circles within circles, and everything is one circle, and all the circles are connected to each other. Each family is a circle,…
- And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people as one of many hoops that made one circle.
- It is hard to follow one great vision in this world of darkness and of many changing shadows. Among those men get lost.
- Any man who is attached to things of this world is one who lives in ignorance and is being consumed by the snakes of his…
- All things are our relatives; what we do to everything, we do to ourselves. All is really One.
- Crazy Horse dreamed and went into the world where there is nothing but the spirits of things. That is the real world that is behind…
- I was standing on the highest mountain of them all, and round about beneath me was the whole hoop of the world. And while I…
- And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight,…
- The boys of my people began very young to learn the ways of men, and no one taught us; we just learned by doing what…
- My friend, I am going to tell you the story of my life, as you wish; and if it were only the story of my…
- I looked below and saw my people there, and all were well and happy except one, and he was lying like the dead - and…
- And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a…
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- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
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- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle