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One Quotes by Erlend Loe
- The only question that really counts, must be thins one: are things getting better or are they getting worse?
- The only thing I can be sure of at any given time is what I am thinking myself. I have no idea what the others…
- What I could really use is an older man. A mentor. One who could tell me how things fit together. He would have asked me…
- I know a helluva lot. I'm not the only one who knows these things. Many people know more than I do. That's fortunately not my…
- When the universe is ephemeral, one can easily feel that human existence is meaningless. Why should I do anything at all? On the other hand…
- I still don't know if things fit together, or if everything will be all right in the end. But I believe that something means something.…
- One problem with people is that as soon as they fill a space it's them you see and not the space. Large, desolate landscapes stop…
More One Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- 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