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  • The supramental transformation, the supramental evolution must carry with it a lifting of mind, life and body out of themselves into a greater way of being in which yet their own ways and powers would be, not suppressed or abolished, but perfected and fulfilled by the self-exceeding.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Sri Aurobindo Quotes , Self Quotes , Mind Quotes
  • 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.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Ignorance Quotes , Self Quotes
  • When a nation is on the downward path, when it feels its belief in its own future, its hope of freedom slipping from it, when it begins to see submission as a first necessity and the virtues of submission as measures of self-preservation, then it must overhaul its God.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Self Quotes , Path Quotes
  • The master not only governs the slave without his consent, but he governs him by a set of rules altogether different from those which he prescribes for himself. Allow ALL the governed an equal voice in the government, and that, and that only, is self-government.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Government Quotes , Self Quotes
  • The Hasidic rabbi, Zuscha, was asked on his deathbed what he thought the kingdom of God would be like. He replied, "I don't know. But one thing I do know. When I get there I am not going to be asked, 'Why weren't you Moses? Why weren't you David?' I am only going to be asked, 'Why weren't you Zuscha? Why weren't you fully you?'"
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Alan Loy McGinnis Quotes , Self Quotes , Would Be Quotes
  • Non-Islamic, non-foreign-motivated terrorist actions have killed at least as many Americans on American soil as those who were promoted by jihadists. But what we have also seen is ISIL evolve, because of the sophistication of their social media, to a point where they may be inspiring more attacks - even if they're self-initiated, even if they don't involve complex planning - than we would have seen some time ago.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Islamic Quotes , Self Quotes