“Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul.”
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English writer 1882–1941Related quotes
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“Most of us can easily do two things at once; what’s all but impossible is to do one thing at once.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“some people fall in love over and over again while some people can only do it once.”
Source: Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood
Source: 1990s and later, Managing for the Future: The 1990's and Beyond (1992), p. 137
“HOBBES:
All this modern technology just makes people try to do everything at once.”
“It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives. It's what we do consistently.”
“We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.”
XX. On Transmigration of Souls, and how Souls are said to migrate into brute beasts.
On the Gods and the Cosmos
Context: It is the natural duty of souls to do their work in the body; are we to suppose that when once they leave the body they spend all eternity in idleness? Again, if the souls did not again enter into bodies, they must either be infinite in number or God must constantly be making new ones. But there is nothing infinite in the world; for in a finite whole there cannot be an infinite part. Neither can others be made; for everything in which something new goes on being created, must be imperfect. And the world, being made by a perfect author, ought naturally to be perfect.