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  • Perhaps, in retrospect, there would be little motivation even for malevolent extraterrestrials to attack the Earth; perhaps, after a preliminary survey, they might decide it is more expedient just to be patient for a little while and wait for us to self-destruct.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Motivation 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
  • To understand oneself requires patience, tolerant awareness; the self is a book of many volumes which you cannot read in a day, but when once you begin to read, you must read every word, every sentence, every paragraph for in them are the intimations of the whole. The beginning of it is the ending of it. If you know how to read, supreme wisdom is to be found.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , Book Quotes , Self Quotes
  • This work somehow awakened my dormant powers of will and I began to practice self-control. At first my resolutions faded like snow in April, but in a little while I conquered my weakness and felt a pleasure I never knew before - that of doing as I willed.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Nikola Tesla Quotes , Self Quotes , Practice Quotes
  • It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages. Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow citizens.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Adam Smith Quotes , Self Quotes , Humanity Quotes
  • In its flawless grace and superior self-sufficiency I have seen a symbol of the perfect beauty and bland impersonality of the universe itself, objectively considered, and in its air of silent mystery there resides for me all the wonder and fascination of the unknown.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Air Quotes , Self Quotes
  • We legislate against forestalling and monopoly; we would have a common granary for the poor; but the selfishness which hoards thecorn for high prices, is the preventative of famine; and the law of self-preservation is surer policy than any legislation can be.
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    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Self Quotes , Law Quotes
  • We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent or self-satisfied; they are, if sound, the spearhead of progress. If they are fundamentally wrong, free discussion will in time put an end to them.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Abraham Flexner Quotes , Science Quotes , Self Quotes