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Source: Moral and religious aphorisms [collected by J. Jeffery from the papers of B. Whichcote]. Now re-publ., with additions, by S. Salter. To which are added, Eight letters: which passed between dr. Whichcote, and dr. Tuckney

“To attain individual morality in an age demanding social morality, to pride one's self on the results of personal effort when the time demands social adjustment, is utterly to fail to apprehend the situation.”

Self Age Individual Social Results Effort Situation Failing Pride Morality Demand Adjustment Individual Morality

Book:Democracy and Social Ethics

Source: Democracy and Social Ethics

“It is easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep, and I had fallen into the meanest type of self-deception in making myself believe that all this was in preparation for great things to come.”

Believe Self Purpose Easy Type Promise Great Things Preparation Deception Fallen Self Deception Dupes Hull House

Book:The Selected Papers of Jane Addams: Vol. 2: Venturing into Usefulness

Source: The Selected Papers of Jane Addams: Vol. 2: Venturing into Usefulness

“[Heresy is] the dislocation of a complete and self-supporting scheme by the introduction of a novel denial of some essential part therein.”

Self Novel Essentials Denial Schemes Introduction Heresy Dislocation

Author:Hilaire Belloc

“The world is full of double beds And most delightful maidenheads, Which being so, there's no excuse For sodomy or self-abuse.”

World Self Bed Abuse Excuse Delightful No Excuses

Author:Hilaire Belloc

“Wherever moral ambition exists, there right exists. And moral ambition itself must be presumed present in subconsciousness, even when the conscious self seems to reject it, so long as society has resources for bringing it into action; in much the same way that the life-saver presumes life to exist in the drowned man until he has exhausted his resources for recovering respiration.”

Men Way Long Self Seems Action Moral Ambition Conscious Resources Rejects Exhausted Recovering Respiration

Author:William Ernest Hocking

“Well, my father Kingsley Amis was a writer and it seemed natural to start writing in my late teens. I think it was good that I began when I was young and bold and foolish, otherwise I'd have become too self-conscious and aware of the weight of not having written anything yet.”

Thinking Writing Wells Self Young Father Natural Written Late Conscious Weight Foolish Teens Self Conscious

Author:Martin Amis

“Zazen is the ultimate practice. This is indeed the True Self. The Buddhadharma is not to be sought outside of this.”

Self Practice Ultimate Excellence True Self

Author:Dogen

“I know no other way out of what is both the maze of the eternal present and the prison of the self except with a string of words.”

Knows Way Self Eternal Prison Strings Simile Mazes Hyperbole

Author:Lewis H. Lapham

“Further strengthenings of the self-centered instinct for survival recruit even greater numbers of people into some sort of ring of fellowship (church or gender, red state or blue) by populating the terra incognita outside the ring with enough barbarians to verify the existence of a civilization within--to define the preferred stock by what, as all good people agree, it decidedly is not.”

“We need not seek our own best selves, and in the meantime we inoculate ourselves against the viruses of age and idealism, which, as the advertising agencies well know, depress sales and sour the feasts of consumption.”

Knows Needs Wells Self Age Advertising Agency Consumption Depressing Idealism Viruses Sour Advertising Agencies Best Self

Author:Lewis H. Lapham

“The gift of self cannot be given to us. It is an incomparable gift that has already been given. We have possessed it from the beginning.”

Self Given Possessed Incomparable

Book:Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century

Source: Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century

“Thirties. Go to therapy. Clean up all of the sh-t. Clean up all of the toxins and the noise. Understand who you are. Educate yourself on the self.”

Self Who You Are Clean Noise Therapy Educate Toxins

Author:Jennifer Aniston

“America is not the crude stereotype of a self-interested empire. The United States has been one of the greatest sources of progress that the world has ever known. We were born out of revolution against an empire. We were founded upon the ideal that all are created equal. And we have shed blood and struggled for centuries to give meaning to those words, within our borders and around the world. We are shaped by every culture. Drawn from every end of the Earth, and dedicated to a simple concept, E pluribus unum: Out of many, one.”

“We've gotta restore the American people's confidence in the ethics process by ensuring that political self-interest can no longer prevent politicians from enforcing ethics rules.”

People Self Political Process Interest Politician Ethics Self Interest

Author:Barack Obama

“You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.”

Book:The Prophet - Der Prophet

Source: The Prophet - Der Prophet

“We are in a degenerate state of self-government. In fact, even to use the words self-government, is not only an exaggeration, it's a lie. It's a big lie!”

Self States Facts Use Bigs Government Lying Exaggeration Degenerates Self-government

Author:Jerry Brown

“The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.”

Self Courses Sacrifice Sensible Immoral Assertion Self Sacrifice

Author:Akira Kurosawa

“Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.”

Self Pain Sick Heal Bitter Sickness Bitterness Within You Physicians

Book:The Prophet - Der Prophet

Source: The Prophet - Der Prophet

“Optimism has always seemed to me the cunning alibi of egoists, anxious to cover up their state of chronic self-satisfaction. They are optimists in order to avoid pitying other men and their misfortune. ~~ Yet pity is a vexed question.”

Men Self States Order Optimism Satisfaction Pity Misfortunes Anxious Optimist Cunning Cover Ups Self-satisfaction

Book:A diary of my times

Source: A diary of my times

“To attain "success" without attaining positive self-esteem is to be condemned to feeling like an imposter anxiously awaiting exposure.”

Self Feelings Self Esteem Esteem Exposure Imposter Positive Self

Book:A Woman's Self-Esteem: Struggles and Triumphs in the Search for Identity

Source: A Woman's Self-Esteem: Struggles and Triumphs in the Search for Identity

“See how the Orient dew, Shed from the bosom of the morn Into the blowing roses, Yet careless of its mansion new; For the clear region where 'twas born Round in its self encloses: And in its little globes extent, Frames as it can its native element.”

Littles Self Born Clear Elements Rose Rounds Native Regions Shed Globes Careless Bosoms Dew Mansions

Author:Andrew Marvell

“But an escape less self-depreciating was taken by Lord Westbury, who, it is said, rebuffed a barrister's reliance upon an earlier opinion of his Lordship: "I can only say that I am amazed that a man of my intelligence should have been guilty of giving such an opinion". If there are other ways of gracefully and good-naturedly surrendering former views to a better considered position, I invoke them all.”

Ifs Men Way Giving Should Has Beens Said I Can Self Views Lord Opinion Taken Position Should Have Guilty Former Amazed Reliance Should Have Been Invoke Lordship Barristers

Author:Robert H. Jackson

“The drivenness in any addiction is about the ruptured self, the belief that one is flawed as a person. The content of the addiction, whether it is alcoholism or work, is an attempt at an intimate relationship. The workaholic with her work or the alcoholic with his booze are having a love affair. Each alters mood to avoid the feeling of loneliness and hurt in the underbelly of shame.”

Persons Self Feelings Belief Hurt Loneliness Shame Addiction Affair Mood Intimate Flawed Alcoholism Alcoholics Love Affair Booze Workaholic Intimate Relationships

Author:John Bradshaw

“Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.”

Knows Self Wisdom Mother Culture Diversity Social Justice Characteristics Atoms Self Knowledge Subtlety Incumbents Minutiae

Author:Khalil Gibran

“There are probably seven persons, in all, who really like my work; and they are enough. I should write even if I were the only patient reader, for my aim is merely self-expression.”

Ifs Should Writing Persons Self Enough Expression Reader Aim Seven Patient Self Expression

Book:The Annotated Supernatural Horror in Literature

Source: The Annotated Supernatural Horror in Literature

“That way of life against which my generation rebelled had given us grim courage, fortitude, self-discipline, a sense of individual responsibility, and a capacity for relentless hard work.”

Way Self Hard Individual Given Responsibility Generations Hard Work Discipline Capacity Self Discipline Fortitude Relentless My Generation Grim Individual Responsibility

Book:Old Home Town

Source: Old Home Town

“One thing I hate about the New Deal is that it is killing what, to me, is the American pioneering spirit. I simply do not know what to tell my own boys, leaving school and confronting this new world whose ideal is Security and whose practice is dependence upon government instead of upon one's self. All the old character-values seem simply insane from a practical point of view; the self-reliant, the independent, the courageous man is penalized from every direction.”

“What [Nietzsche] calls slave morality is to him purely spite-morality; and this spite-morality gave new names to all ideals. Thus impotence, which offers no reprisal, became goodness; craven baseness became humility; submission to him who was feared became obedience; inability to assert one's self became reluctance to assert one's self, became forgiveness, love of one's enemies. Misery became a distinction”

Source: Friedrich Nietzsche (English Edition)

“What has here happened is that the instinct of cruelty, which has turned inwards, has become self-torture, and all man's animal instincts have been reinterpreted as guilt towards God. Every Nay man utters to his nature, to his real being, he flings out as a Yea, an affirmation of reality applied to God's sanctity”

Men Has Beens Real Self Reality Animal Happened Guilt Instinct Cruelty Torture Affirmation Sanctity Fling Animal Instinct

Book:Friedrich Nietzsche (English Edition)

Source: Friedrich Nietzsche (English Edition)

“The journey to true happiness and to happiness now is not a journey of physical distance or time; it is one of personal "self-recovery," where we remember and reconnect consciously to an inner potential for joy--a paradise lost--waiting to be found.”

Self Remember Joy Found Lost Waiting Journey Distance Recovery Paradise True Happiness Happiness Now

Book:Happiness Now!: Timeless Wisdom for Feeling Good Fast

Source: Happiness Now!: Timeless Wisdom for Feeling Good Fast

“Arrogance is a killer, and wearing ambition on one's sleeve can have the same effect. There is a fine line between arrogance and self-confidence. Legitimate self-confidence is a winner. The true test of self-confidence is the courage to be open - to welcome change and new ideas regardless of their source. Self-confident people aren't afraid to have their views challenged. They relish the intellectual combat that enriches ideas.”

“Our "society" is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units. Desperately insecure, fearing his woman will leave him if she's exposed to other men or to anything remotely resembling life, the male seeks to isolate her from other men and from what little civilization there is, so he moves her out to the suburbs, a collection of self-absorbed couples and their kids. Isolation, further, enables him to try to maintain his pretense of being an individual by being a "rugged individualist", a loner, equating non-co-operation and solitariness with individuality.”

“I wanted to talk to very young kids about self-image and about being different and how that can be your strength, especially from the immigrant perspective.”

Different Self Kids Wanted Young Perspective Immigrants Being Different

Author:Gloria Estefan

“I was more of a Star Wars kid, actually. I always thought Star Trek was a lot of talk, and it felt a little self-important. It was hard for me to get into it.”

Littles Important War Self Hard Kids Stars Felt

Author:J. J. Abrams

“For me, makeup is about being your best self. If I wake up in a foul mood and have to deal with temper tantrums and an exploding diaper--I know taking 10 minutes to get my game face on will reset my stress levels. It's a chance to check in and remind myself--you got this.”

Source: The Honest Life (Enhanced Edition): Living Naturally and True to You

“I want to be the apostle of self destruction. I want my book to affect man's reason, his emotions, his nerves, his whole animal nature. I should like my book to make people turn pale with horror as they read it, to affect them like a drug, like a terrifying dream, to drive them mad, to make them curse and hate me but still to read me.”

People Men Want Should Writing Stills Book Self Reason Whole Dream Hate Turns Animal Emotion Horror Drug Destruction Mad Curse Nerves Pale Apostles Hate Me Self Destruction Self Destruct

Author:Leonid Andreyev

“[On how she goes about trying to live authentically] Well really listening to my point of view and if I am on a set, say, that doesn't really value a woman's point of view, regardless of how they feel, continuing to give my point of view and try to find a way to be heard and not diminishing myself because other people are diminishing me. Because that, I think, is the worst temptation that, you know, you judge yourself by how others are judging you, and to fall into that trap is to walk into the realm of self-annihilation.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Way Giving Feels Trying Wells Self Values Fall Walks Views Heard Worst Judging Listening Point Of View Temptation Realms Continuing Traps Annihilation Judging You

Author:Jennifer Beals

“The ego must be developed, not for its own sake, but because it is needed by society. If you are only interested in self-realization then you cannot make a good painting. To do this you have to have thought about forming, and about how ideas of forming stem from history.”

Ifs Ideas Self Painting Needed Ego Sake Self Realization Realization Stem

Author:Joseph Beuys

“When the Soviet Union came to be run by a valetudinarian mafioso like Brezhnev, the thing itself had fallen into self-contempt.”

Self Running Unions Fallen Contempt Soviet Soviet Union Brezhnev

Author:Leonid Brezhnev

“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

“There is not unmitigated ill in the sharpest of this world's sorrows; I touch not the sore of thy guilt; but of human griefs I counsel thee, Cast off the weakness of regret, and gird thee to redeem thy loss: Thou has gained, in the furnace of affliction, self-knowledge, patience and humility, And these be as precious ore, that waiteth the skill of the coiner: Despise not the blessings of adversity, nor the gain thou hast earned so hardly, And now thou hast drained the bitter, take heed that thou lose not the sweet.”

Source: Tupper's Poetical Works: Proverbial Philosophy, A Thousand Lines, Hactenus

“Very little comes easily to our poor, benighted species (the first creature, after all, to experiment with the novel evolutionary inventions of self-conscious philosophy and art). Even the most "obvious," "accurate," and "natural" style of thinking or drawing must be regulated by history and won by struggle. Solutions must therefore arise within a social context and record the complex interactions of mind and environment that define the possibility of human improvement.”

Source: Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms

“Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong. However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man's perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency; that man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.”

Thinking Men May Self Motivation Fall Space Existence Perception Standards Regard Supreme Traps Equations Time And Space Inclination Self Centered Axioms Expediency

Author:Abraham Joshua Heschel

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