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One Quotes by Idries Shah
- One can give or withhold in a manner far more effective, sophisticated, useful, which is quite invisible to people who think that giving or withholding…
- But one may say something and yet not be able to do it. Try, for instance, lifting yourself up by the bootstraps.
- Talking about straws and camels' backs is just one way of approaching things. If you have enough camels, no backs need be broken.
- We view Sufism not as an ideology that molds people to the right way of belief or action, but as an art or science that…
- One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative…
- When people have a hard task to do - one which stretches them - they become less concerned with trivial matters.
- One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.
- A real secret is something which only one person knows.
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