Plato Quotes, Men Quotes, Self Quotes

If anyone comes to the gates of poetry and expects to become an adequate poet by acquiring expert knowledge of the subject without the Muses' madness, he will fail, and his self-controlled verses will be eclipsed by the poetry of men who have been driven out of their minds.

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Love is a state of being, and in that state, the 'me', with its identifications, anxieties, and possessions is absent. Love cannot be, as long as the activities of the self, of the 'me', whether conscious or unconscious, continue to exist.

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Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , Love Is Quotes , Self Quotes

The gulfing whale was like a dot in the spell. Yet look upon it, and 'twould size and swell To its huge self, and the minutest fish Would pass the very hardest gazer's wish, And show his little eye's anatomy.

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Tags : William Blake Quotes , Eye Quotes , Self Quotes

But what after all, behind appearances, is this seeming mystery? We can see that it is the Consciousness which had lost itself returning again to itself, emerging out of its giant self-forgetfulness, slowly, painfully, as a Life that is would be sentient, half-sentient, dimly sentient, wholly sentient and finally struggles to be more than sentient, to be again divinely selfconscious, free, infinite, immortal.

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Tags : Sri Aurobindo Quotes , Self Quotes , Growth Quotes

Is virtue raised by culture, or self-sown?

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Tags : Horace Quotes , Self Quotes , Culture Quotes

I am only half there when I am ill, and so there is only half a man to suffer. To suffer in one's whole self is so great a violation, that it is not to be endured.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Men Quotes , Self Quotes

History may be servitude. History may be freedom. See, now they vanish. The faces and places, with the self which, as it could, loved them, to become renewed, transfigured, in another pattern.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Self Quotes , May Quotes

I cannot endure the horror, the evil, which comes to self in solitude.

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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Self Quotes , Evil Quotes

For history tells us that while these truths may be self-evident, they've never been self-executing. That while freedom is a gift from God, it must be secured by his people here on earth.

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Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Self Quotes , People Quotes

All men, in the abstract, are just and good; what hinders them, in the particular, is, the momentary predominance of the finite and individual over the general truth. The condition of our incarnation in a private self, seems to be, a perpetual tendency to prefer the private law, to obey the private impulse, to the exclusion of the law of the universal being.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Men Quotes , Self Quotes

If I was having a bad day, eating was like self-medicating. But if you abuse food, you still have to use that substance that you abuse every day. You have to learn to use it responsibly.

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Tags : Al Roker Quotes , Bad Day Quotes , Self Quotes

Love all. Trust a few. Do wrong to none. This above all: to thine own self be true. No legacy is so rich as honesty. Brevity is the soul of wit

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Honesty Quotes , Self Quotes

Like too much alcohol,self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double, and we make the double image for two selves - mental and material, controlling and controlled, reflective and spontaneous. Thus instead of suffering we suffer about suffering, and suffer about suffering about suffering.

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The battle for self-discipline may leave you a bit bruised and battered but always a better person.

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Tags : Thomas S. Monson Quotes , Self Quotes , Discipline Quotes

Human nature, essentially changeable, as unstable as the dust, can endure no restraint; if it binds itself it soon begins to tear madly at its bonds, until it rends everything asunder, the wall, the bonds, and its very self.

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Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Wall Quotes , Self Quotes

Many a one cannot loosen his own fetters, but is nevertheless his friend's emancipator.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Self Quotes , Nevertheless Quotes

True self-love and social are the same.

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Self Quotes , Self Love Quotes

Two cities have been formed by two loves: the earthly by the love of self; the heavenly by the love of God.

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Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Self Quotes , Cities Quotes

Write. No amount of self-inflicted misery, altered states, black pullovers or being publicly obnoxious will ever add up to your being a writer. Writers write. On you go.

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Tags : A.L. Kennedy Quotes , Writing Quotes , Self Quotes

Those who are self-righteous are not prominent.

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Tags : Laozi Quotes , Self Quotes , Taoism Quotes