Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, Lying Quotes, Self Quotes

The most common sort of lie is the one uttered to one's self.

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It is our nature to conform; it is a force which not many can successfully resist. What is its seat? The inborn requirement of self-approval.

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When life descends into the pit I must become my own candle Willingly burning my self To light up the darkness around me.

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Yet where is your inner value when you no longer know what it is to breathe freely; when you no longer have freedom over your own selves

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It has well been said that the arch-flatterer, with whom all petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self.

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Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties.

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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.

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Hungry Hatred, will not strive against intelligence self-interest.

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To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect, and their oneness.

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The true self is not aware that it is a self. A bird, as it sings, sings itself. But not according to a picture. It has no idea of itself.

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I still say the only education worth anything is self-education.

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Abortion is an act of self-defense.

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It is self-evident that St. Louis affected me more deeply than any other environment has ever done. I feel that there is something in having passed one's childhood beside the big river, which is incommunicable to those people who have not. I consider myself fortunate to have been born here, rather than in Boston, or New York, or London.

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The whole faculties of man must be exerted in order to call forth noble energies; and he who is not earnestly sincere lives in but half his being, self-mutilated, self-paralyzed.

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

What sex gives you momentarily is the total abandonment of yourself, then you are back again with your turmoil, so you want a repetition over and over again of that state in which there is no worry, no problem, no self.

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Life is merely terrible; I feel it as few others do. Often — and in my inmost self perhaps all the time — I doubt whether I am a human being.

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The highest truth needs no communicating, for it is by its very nature self-propelling. It radiates its influence silently as the rose its fragrance without the intervention of a medium.

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When you encounter some problems, if you point your finger at yourself and not at others, this gives you control over yourself and calmness in a situation, where otherwise self-control becomes problematic.

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Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.

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It is so unsatisfactory to read a noble passage and have no one you love at hand to share the happiness with you. And it is unsatisfactory to read to one's self anyhow - for the uttered voice so heightens the expression.

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