One must know a great many unimportant things in order to know those few things which are important.
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Quote:- One must know oneself. Even if that does not help in finding truth, at least it helps in running one's life, and nothing is more proper.
Pensées
Author:- Blaise Pascal
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- One must learn to embrace the expertise of others, just like one expects one's own expertise to be embraced by others.
When Call The People: My World My Responsibility
Author:- Abhijit Naskar
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- One must reach out and try to grasp this astonishing finesse, that the value of life cannot be estimated.
Twilight of the Idols
Author:- Friedrich Nietzsche
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- One must try to make one's life as pleasant as possible. I'm alive and it's not my fault, which means I must somehow go on living the best I can, without bothering anybody, until I die.''But what makes you live? With such thoughts, you'll sit without moving, without undertaking anything...''Life won't leave one alone as it is.
War and Peace
Author:- Leo Tolstoy
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- one must verge on the unknown, write toward the truth hitherto unrecognizable of one’s own sincerity, including the avoidable beauty of doom, shame, and embarrassment, that very area of personal self-recognition,(detailed individual is universal remember) which formal conventions, internalized, keep us from discovering in ourselves and others
Author:- Allen Ginsberg
Category:- poetry
Quote:- One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.
Author:- Sophocles
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- One need never leave the confines of New York to get all the greenery one wishes--I can't even enjoy a blade of grass unless I know there's a subway handy, or a record store or some other sign that people do not totally regret life.
Author:- Frank O'Hara
Category:- poetry
Quote:- One need not be a Chamber — to be Haunted — One need not be a House — The Brain has Corridors — surpassing Material Place —
Selected Poems
Author:- Emily Dickinson
Category:- poetry
Quote:- One need not be a chamber to be haunted.
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Author:- Emily Dickinson
Category:- poetry
Quote:- One need not believe in Pallas Athena, the virgin goddess, to be overwhelmed by the Parthenon. Similarly, a man who rejects all dogmas, all theologies and all religious formulations of beliefs may still find Genesis the sublime book par excellence. Experiences and aspirations of which intimations may be found in Plato, Nietzsche, and Spinoza have found their most evocative expression in some sacred books. Since the Renaissance, Shakespeare, Rembrandt, Mozart, and a host of others have shown that this religious dimension can be experienced and communicated apart from any religious context. But that is no reason for closing my heart to Job's cry, or to Jeremiah's, or to the Second Isaiah. I do not read them as mere literature; rather, I read Sophocles and Shakespeare with all my being, too.
Author:- Walter Kaufmann
Category:- inspiration
Quote:- One never knows how the witch became wicked, or whether that was the right choice for her — is it ever the right choice? Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil? It is the very least question of definitions.
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
Author:- Gregory Maguire
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- One nice thing about egotists: they don't talk about other people.
Author:- Golden Flower
Category:- best
Quote:- One night a friend lent me a book of short stories by Franz Kafka. I went back to the pension where I was staying and began to read The Metamorphosis. The first line almost knocked me off the bed. I was so surprised. The first line reads, As Gregor Samsa awoke that morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. . . . When I read the line I thought to myself that I didn’t know anyone was allowed to write things like that. If I had known, I would have started writing a long time ago. So I immediately started writing short stories.
Author:- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Category:- inspiration
Quote:- One night I begged Robin, a scientist by training, to watch Arthur Miller's 'Death of a Salesman' with me on PBS. He lasted about one act, then turned to me in horror: 'This is how you spend your days? Thinking about things like this?' I was ashamed. I could have been learning about string theory or how flowers pollinate themselves. I think his remark was the beginning of my crisis of faith. Like so many of my generation in graduate school, I had turned to literature as a kind of substitute for formal religion, which no longer fed my soul, or for therapy, which I could not afford.... I became interested in exploring the theory of nonfiction and in writing memoir, a genre that gives us access to that lost Middlemarch of reflection and social commentary.
The Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd
Author:- Mary Rose O'Reilley
Category:- science
Quote:- One night I was layin' down,I heard Papa talkin' to Mama,I heard Papa say to let that boy boogie-woogie.'Cause it's in him and it's got to come out.
Author:- John Lee Hooker
Category:- inspiration
Quote:- One night, I stood by my window and gazed at the sky hoping to find a star, but it was starless. Then I heard a voice within me saying "You are a star, look at yourself.
Author:- Lil Destar
Category:- Life