Aristotle Quotes, Character Quotes, Self Quotes

Good moral character is not something that we can achieve on our own. We need a culture that supports the conditions under which self-love and friendship flourish.

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Let India become alive by self-purification, that is self-restraint and self-denial, and she will be a boon to herself and mankind.

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When the light at Vernon turned green, we stepped into the street and George grabbed my hand and the ghosts of our younger selves crossed with us.

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Thoroughly to believe in one's own self, so one's self were thorough, were to do great things.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Believe Quotes , Self Quotes

It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will; and, however little they acknowledge it, one later discovers that they were among the most powerful promoters of decadence.

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If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.

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Freedom is born of self-discipline. No individual, no nation, can achieve or maintain liberty without self-control. The undisciplined man (or woman) is a slave to his own weaknesses.

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It is the function of God Rama to destroy evil, wherever it occurs and it is equally the function of God Rama to give to his devotees like Bibhishana a free charter of irrevocable self-government.

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Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and disregarded selves, break with complacency, numbness, despair.

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Tags : Adrienne Rich Quotes , Self Quotes , Numbness Quotes

Physiologists should think before putting down the instinct of self-preservation as the cardinal instinct of an organic being. A living thing seeks above all to discharge its strength--life itself is will to power; self-preservation is only one of the indirect and most frequent results.

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Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions.

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Seek not the depths of your knowledge with staff or sounding line. For self is a sea boundless and measureless.

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Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , Self Quotes , Sea 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.

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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Air Quotes , Self Quotes

... photography, like all camera-made images such as film and video, effaces the marks of its making (and maker) at the click of a shutter. A photograph appears to be self-generated - as though it had created itself.

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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

I'm standing up for the right of self-determination. I'm standing up for our territory. I'm standing up for our people. I'm standing up for international law. I'm standing up for all those territories - those small territories and peoples the world over - who, if someone doesn't stand up and say to an invader 'enough, stop', would be at risk.

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Tags : Margaret Thatcher Quotes , Determination Quotes , Self Quotes

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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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Self Quotes , Ideas Quotes

Madness does not come by breaking out, but by giving in; by settling down in some dirty, little, self-repeating circle of ideas; by being tamed.

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Never to talk to ones self is a form of hypocrisy

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Most happy is he who is entirely self-reliant, and who centers all his requirements in himself alone.

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