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- The real meditation is ... the meditation on one's identity. Ah, voilà une chose!! You try it. You try finding out why you're you and…
- I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
- The only chance for victory over the brainwash is the right of every man to have his ideas judged one at a time. You never…
- All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing, yes, I knew nothing.…
- The book shd. be a ball of light in one's hand.
- The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
- See, they return; ah, see the tentative Movements, and the slow feet, The trouble in the pace and the uncertain Wavering! See, they return, one,…
- That text is known to them that have the patience to read it, possibly one one-hundredth of one percent of the denizens. They forget it,…
- From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
- Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
- Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
- A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
- The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
- When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
- A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
- But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts…
- Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
- The jargon of sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye…
- Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
- A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
- The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in…
- The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of…
- The Garden En robe de parade. - Samain Like a skein of loose silk blown against a wall She walks by the railing of a…
- Poetry is a sort of inspired mathematics, which gives us equations, not for abstract figures, triangles, squares, and the like, but for the human emotions.…
- With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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- 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