Akira Kurosawa Quotes, Sacrifice Quotes, Self Quotes

The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.

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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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Freedom comes with self-knowledge, when the mind goes above and beyond the hindrances it has created for itself.

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It is self-evident that St. Louis affected me more deeply than any other environment has ever done. I feel that there is something in having passed one's childhood beside the big river, which is incommunicable to those people who have not. I consider myself fortunate to have been born here, rather than in Boston, or New York, or London.

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Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government.

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Self-sacrifice, not self-assertion, is the law of the highest universe.

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When anything assumes the strength of a creed, it becomes self-sustained and derives the needed support from within.

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It becomes more important to me as time goes on to make every album the best thing I've ever done, so it's a lot of self-imposed pressure that also kind of slows me down a bit.

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So much had been surrendered! And to such little purpose! There had been mad wilful rejections, monstrous forms of self-torture and self-denial, whose origin was fear and whose result was a degradation infinitely more terrible than that fancied degradation from which, in their ignorance, they had sought to escape.

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To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour

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Truly know thyself, and to thine own self be true.

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Self-suppression is often necessary in the interest of truth and nonviolence.

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Self-government relies, in the end, on the governing of the self.

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Self-government relies, in the end, on the governing of the self.

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Of all forms of deception self-deception is the most deadly, and of all deceived persons the self-deceived are the least likely to discover the fraud.

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When a new truth enters the world, the first stage of reaction to it is ridicule, the second stage is violent opposition, and in the third stage, that truth comes to be regarded as self-evident.

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The art of conversation, or the qualification for a good companion, is a certain self-control, which now holds the subject, now lets it go, with a respect for the emergencies of the moment.

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Self-defense...is the only honourable course where there is unreadiness for self-immolation.

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My wealth is in my knowledge of self, love, and spirituality.

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What sex gives you momentarily is the total abandonment of yourself, then you are back again with your turmoil, so you want a repetition over and over again of that state in which there is no worry, no problem, no self.

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