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“Selfishness does not mean only to do things for one's self. One may do things, affecting others, for his own pleasure and benefit. This is not immoral, but the highest of morality.”

May Mean Doe Self Pleasure Morality Benefits Highest Selfishness Immoral

Author:Ayn Rand

“If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.”

Ifs Mean Self Whole Feelings Nations Discipline Newspapers Self Respect

Author:Matthew Arnold

“I often say that sociology is a martial art, a means of self-defense. Basically, you use it to defend yourself, without having the right to use it for unfair attacks.”

Mean Art Self Use Defense Martial Arts Unfair Sociology Self Defense

Author:Pierre Bourdieu

“The frustrated follow a leader less because of their faith that he is leading them to a promised land than because of their immediate feeling that he is leading them away from their unwanted selves. Surrender to a leader is not a means to an end but a fulfillment. Whither they are led is of secondary importance.”

Mean Ends Self Feelings Leader Land Importance Surrender Fulfillment Frustrated Unwanted Promised Land Means To An End

Book:THE TRUE BELIEVER

Source: THE TRUE BELIEVER

“It hath been said, that there is of nothing so much in hell as of self-will. The which is true, for there is nothing else there than self-will, and if there were no self-will, there would be no Devil and no hell. When it is said that Lucifer fell from Heaven, and turned away from God and the like, it meaneth nothing else than that he would have his own will, and would not be at one with the Eternal Will. So was it likewise with Adam in Paradise. And when we say Self-will, we mean, to will otherwise than as the One and Eternal Will of God willeth.”

Ifs Mean Said Self Would Be Heaven Hell Eternal Devil Gods Will Paradise Adam Lucifer Self Will

Author:Martin Luther

“The meeting of man and God must always mean a penetration and entry of the divine into the human and a self-immergence of man in the Divinity.”

Men Humans Mean Self Divine Meetings Divinity Entry Penetration

Book:Bulletin Du Centre International D'éducation Sri Aurobindo

Source: Bulletin Du Centre International D'éducation Sri Aurobindo

“So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational. A free discipline controls the individual by appealing to his reason and conscience, and therefore to his self-respect; while an unfree control works upon some lower phase of the mind, and so tends to degrade him. It is freedom to be disciplined in as rational a manner as you are fit for.”

Mind Mean Self Reason Use Form Individual Higher Discipline Fit Conscience Concerned Absence Rational Self Respect Phases Degrade Unfree

Book:Human Nature and the Social Order

Source: Human Nature and the Social Order

“The goal that the Obama team has is to fundamentally replace the historic America of self reliance, independence, the work ethic, the people who go out and achieve because they spend their lifetime doing the right things and they want to replace it with a politician dominated redistributionist bureaucracy which in the essence would mean the end of the America as it has been for the last 400 years.”

“Existence is self-enjoyment, by means of some object distinct from ourselves.”

Mean Self Existence Objects Enjoyment

Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater