#only

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it. ↗

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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It really is a nice theory. The only defect I think it has is probably common to all philosophical theories. It's wrong. ↗

— Saul Kripke

#defect #i #i think #nice #only

Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms. ↗

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

#always #attitude #class #cleared #confusion

When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it. ↗

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

#attention #being #completely #give #heart

I've become a real housewife. Terry doesn't mind me working, in fact he loves me to be independent. But I only get an allowance of $15 dollars a week, which doesn't go very far. ↗

— Marta Kristen

#become #dollars #fact #far #get

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. ↗

— Robert Kennedy

#achieve #dare #ever #fail #greatly

Therefore, if one were to consider that there was virtually no possibility of success through the US-Japan negotiations, the military and economic pressures would only force Japan into further crisis if time were allowed to pass in vain. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

#consider #crisis #economic #force #further

At that moment of realization I knew that I had been blind because I had wished not to see; it was only then that I realised, at last, that all these dead men, French and Germans, were brothers, and I was the brother of them all. ↗

— Ernst Toller

#been #blind #brother #brothers #dead

Later we learned that it was one of our own men hanging on the wire. Nobody could do anything for him; two men had already tried to save him, only to be shot themselves. ↗

— Ernst Toller

#anything #could #had #hanging #him

Regarding one's career: always be prepared, no short cuts - hard work is the only alternative that really works. ↗

— Kiana Tom

#always #be prepared #career #cuts #hard