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One Quotes by Etty Hillesum
- I feel like a small battlefield in which the problems, or some of the problems, of our time are being fought out. All one can…
- If one burdens the future with one's worries, it cannot grow organically. I am filled with confidence, not that I shall succeed in worldly things,…
- If one finds the strength to deal with small things, one finds it to deal with the large ones as well.
- When I pray, I never pray for myself, always for others, or else I hold a silly, naive, or deadly serious dialogue with what is…
- Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it towards others.…
- I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one’s inner life. And…
- One must also accept that one has 'uncreative' moments. The more honestly one can accept that, the quicker these moments will pass.
More One Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
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- 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