Aristotle Quotes, Self Quotes, Consciousness Quotes

A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence...makes us more fully conscious of our own existence.

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The essence of knowledge is self-knowledge.

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The city of Washington is in some respects self-contained, and it is easy there to forget what the rest of the United States is thinking about. I count it a fortunate circumstance that almost all the windows of the White House and its offices open upon unoccupied spaces that stretch to the banks of the Potomacand that as I sit there I can constantly forget Washington and remember the United States.

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Tags : Woodrow Wilson Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Self Quotes

I believe that obstinacy, or the dread of control and discipline, arises not so much from self-willedness as from a conscious defect of voluntary power; as foolhardiness is not seldom the disguise of conscious timidity.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Believe Quotes , Self Quotes

If I were to start taking care of my grooming, I would no longer be my own self.

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Belief, as I use the word here, is the insistence that the truth is what one would "lief" or wish it to be. The believer will open his mind to the truth on condition that it fits in with his preconceived ideas and wishes. Faith, on the other hand, is an unreserved opening of the mind to the truth, whatever it may turn out to be. Faith has no preconceptions; it is a plunge into the unknown. Belief clings, but faith lets go.

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Never to talk to ones self is a form of hypocrisy

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MUGWUMP, n. In politics one afflicted with self-respect and addicted to the vice of independence. A term of contempt.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Self Quotes , Independence Quotes

All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself.

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And the earth self-balanced on her centre hung.

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Abortion, for many women, is more than an experience of suffering beyond anything most men will ever know, it is an act of mercy, and an act of self-defense.

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And the more you become aware of the unknown self - if you become aware of it - the more you realize that it is inseparably connected with everything else that is.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Self Quotes , Realizing Quotes

One's own self is well hidden from one's own self; of all mines of treasure, one's own is the last to be dug up.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Discovery Quotes , Self Quotes

Many have dreamed up republics and principalities that have never in truth been known to exist; the gulf between how one should live and how one does live is so wide that a man who neglects what is actually done for what should be done learns the way to self-destruction rather than self-preservation.

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Tags : Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes , Men Quotes , Self Quotes

To be infatuated with the power of one's own intellect is an accident which seldom happens but to those who are remarkable for the want of intellectual power. Whenever Nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Self Quotes , Intellectual Quotes

Mass democracy, mass morality and the mass media thrive independently of the individual, who joins them only at the cost of at least a partial perversion of his instincts and insights. He pays for his social ease with what used to be called his soul - his discriminations, his uniqueness, his psychic energy, his self.

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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.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Self Quotes , Ideas Quotes

Let a man neither give himself over to pleasures ... nor yet let him give himself over to self-mortification ... To the exclusion of both these extremes, the Truth-Finder has discovered a middle course.

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There can only be two basic loves... the love of God unto the forgetfulness of self, or the love of self unto the forgetfulness and denial of God.

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Knowledge studies others, wisdom is self known.

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