Nikola Tesla Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Self Quotes

The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions are governed not from within, but from without. He is like a float tossed about by the waves of a turbulent sea.

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Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.

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There is no other species on Earth that does science. It is, so far, entirely a human invention, evolved by natural selection in the cerebral cortex for one simple reason: it works. It is not perfect. It can be misused. It is only a tool. But it is by far the best tool we have, self-correcting, ongoing, applicable to everything.

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These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world. Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of everyone of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

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

Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.

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What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but absence of self-criticism.

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A votary of ahimsa must cultivate the habit of unremitting toil, sleepless vigilance, ceaseless self-control.

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Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.

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

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As I look back over my life, I've been an active person - obviously I was self-absorbed for a period of time.

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Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.

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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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When you let go of the egoic self what you're getting in exchange is the whole universe.

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We are in the midst of a once-in-a-century credit tsunami. Central banks and governments are being required to take unprecedented measures. Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders' equity are in a state of shocked disbelief.

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Why should self-indulgent nonsense - whatever its professed political orientation - be lauded as the height of scholarly achievement?

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Voluntary service of others demands the best of which one is capable, and must take precedence over service of self.

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Self-government relies, in the end, on the governing of the self.

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It would be unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which have never yet been tried.

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The blessed spirits must be sought within the self which is common to all

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Blessed 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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