Ambrose Bierce Quotes, Self Quotes, Independence Quotes

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

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The greatest victory is over self.

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I must have dialogue with the Chinese government, and dialogue requires compromise. Therefore, I'm speaking for genuine self-rule, not for independence.

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I have but shadowed forth my intense longing to lose myself in the Eternal and become merely a lump of clay in the Potter's divine hands so that my service may become more certain because uninterrupted by the baser self in me.

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When he has the power to see things detached from self-interest and from the insistent claims of the lust of the senses, then alone can he have the true vision of the beauty that is everywhere.

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Self reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God.

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Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.

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The fundamental factor of self-deception is this constant desire to be something in this world and in the world hereafter.

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Without understanding the process of the self, there is no bais for thought, there is no basis for right thinking.

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The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being, as a tree comes into full blossom, or a bird into spring beauty, or a tiger into lustre.

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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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Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.

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There's an appeal to the American sense of exceptionalism, that we're morally superior, as way to not be self-critical. I think that's a bit dangerous.

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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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The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.

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Know thy self, know thy enemy.

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Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer. The maxim is so perfectly self-evident that it would be absurd to attempt to prove it. But in the mercantile system the interest of the consumer is almost constantly sacrificed to that of the producer; and it seems to consider production, and not consumption, as the ultimate end and object of all industry and commerce.

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I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.

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Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego.

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Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.

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