Aeschylus Quotes, Men Quotes, Self Quotes

Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.

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Gaiety is forgetfulness of the self, melancholy is memory of the self: in that state the soul feels all the power of its roots, nothing distracts it from its profound homeland and the look that it casts upon the outer world is gently dismayed.

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Know thy enemy and know thy self and you will win a hundred battles.

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What I want to achieve, what I have been striving and pining for these thirty years, is self-realization, that is, to see God face to face.

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Dishonoring what we feel is an epidemic that has us self-medicating as a culture and trying to numb ourselves.

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Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity...No thing is required for this enlightenment.. .except freedom; and the freedom in question is the least harmful of all, namely, the freedom to use reason publicly in all matters.

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It would be unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which have never yet been tried.

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Like too much alcohol,self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double, and we make the double image for two selves - mental and material, controlling and controlled, reflective and spontaneous. Thus instead of suffering we suffer about suffering, and suffer about suffering about suffering.

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True enlightenment is nothing but the nature of one's own self being fully realized.

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The best asset is your own self. You can become to an enormous degree the person you want to be

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The individual may be understood as one particular focal point at which the whole universe expresses itself - as an incarnation of the self, or of the Godhead, or whatever one may choose to call it.

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By travelling across frontiers, on horseback and in the imagination, Montaigne invited us to to exchange local prejudices and the self division they induced for less constraining identities as citizens of the world.

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Tags : Alain de Botton Quotes , Self Quotes , Imagination Quotes

The first requisite of a good citizen in this Republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his weight; that he shall not be a mere passenger, but shall do his share in the work that each generation of us finds ready to hand; and, furthermore, that in doing his work he shall show, not only the capacity for sturdy self-help, but also self-respecting regard for the rights of others.

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For God's sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch.

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Democracy disciplined and enlightened is the finest thing in the world. A democracy prejudiced, ignorant, superstitious, will land itself in chaos and may be self-destroyed.

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You cannot build nonviolence on a factory civilization, but it can be built on self-contained villages.

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Truth, purity, self-control, firmness, fearlessness, humility, unity, peace, and renunciation - these are the inherent qualities of a civil resister.

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Fasting is futile unless it is accompanied by an incessant longing for self-restraint.

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Self-evident, adj. Evident to one's self and to nobody else.

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The True Person avoids extremes, self-indulgence, and extravagance.

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