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  • The life of Zen begins, therefore, in a disillusion with the pursuit of goals which do not really exist the good without the bad, the gratification of a self which is no more than an idea, and the morrow which never comes.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Self Quotes , Ideas Quotes
  • A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement-in a word, with more renunciation than you care for-and so you flee the contagion.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Self Quotes , Atheism Quotes
  • In eloquence, the great triumphs of the art are when the orator is lifted above himself; when consciously he makes himself the mere tongue of the occasion and the hour, and says what cannot but be said. Hence the term "abandonment" to describe the self- surrender of the orator. Not his will, but the principle on which he is horsed, the great connection and crisis of events, thunder in the ear of the crowd.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Art Quotes , Self Quotes
  • Once you begin to take yourself seriously as a leader or as a follower, as a modern or as a conservative, then you become a self-conscious, biting, and scratching little animal whose work is not of the slightest value or importance to anybody.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Animal Quotes , Self Quotes
  • After death the soul possesses self-consciousness, otherwise, it would be the subject of spiritual death, which has already been disproved. With this self-consciousness necessarily remains personality and the consciousness of personal identity.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Spiritual Quotes , Self Quotes
  • ...Conservatives have excellent credentials to speak about human rights. By our efforts, and with precious little help from self-styled liberals, we were largely responsible for securing liberty for a substantial share of the world's population and defending it for most of the rest.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Margaret Thatcher Quotes , Rights Quotes , Self Quotes
  • Wisdom's self oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, where with her best nurse Contemplation, she plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings that in the various bustle of resort were all to-ruffled, and sometimes impaired.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : John Milton Quotes , Sweet Quotes , Self Quotes
  • Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another, it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people, and her example, her assistance, her encouragement, has thrilled two continents in this western world with all those fine impulses which have built up human liberty on sides of the water. She stands, therefore, as an example of independence, as an example of free institutions, and as an example of disinterested international action in the main tenets of justice.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Woodrow Wilson Quotes , Encouragement Quotes , Self Quotes
  • All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture, is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make, as good money!
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Self Quotes , Words Of Wisdom Quotes