One Cannot Quotes

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As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. — Oscar Wilde
That which one cannot experience in daily life is not true for oneself. — D. H. Lawrence
It is on account of the ego that one is not able to see God. In front of the door of God's mansion lies the… — Ramakrishna
One does what one can, not what one cannot. — Agatha Christie
One cannot reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others. — Laozi
For me, the idea of a creation is not conceivable without invoking the necessity of design. One cannot be exposed to the law and order… — Wernher von Braun
One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be. — Wallace Stevens
When the judge calls the criminal's name out he stands up, and they are immediately linked by a strange biology that makes them both opposite… — Jean Genet
While one is asleep one cannot do anything that is good. Virtue is impossible in unconsciousness, only sin is possible. Unconsciousness is the source of… — Rajneesh
...one cannot lodge in if. — Rumi
The fact throughout history is that whenever government dominates the economic affairs of its citizenry, a free society is eroded, then destroyed, and a minority… — William E. Simon
One cannot choose wisely for a life unless he dares to listen to himself, his own self, at each moment of his life. — Abraham Maslow
As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying. — Arthur C. Clarke
One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary people; and on… — Victor Hugo
The arts have a development which comes not only from the individual but also from a whole acquired force, the civilization which precedes us. One… — Henri Matisse
My sannyasins have to be creators, not through the mind but through meditation. And it comes of its own accord, one need not even think… — Rajneesh
Unless one becomes a womb one never becomes pregnant with god. One cannot conquer god, one can't be aggressive - that is the sure way… — Rajneesh
The middle way is still driving on the wrong side of the road; it still permits the killing of the fox for pleasure. One cannot… — Lyndon Harrison, Baron Harrison
One cannot read the New Testament without acquired admiration for whatever it abuses not to speak of the "wisdom of this world," which an impudent… — Friedrich Nietzsche
One cannot get through life without pain...What we can do is choose how to use the pain life presents to us. — Bernie Siegel

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