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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

“I hate orthodox criticism. I don't mean great criticism, like that of Matthew Arnold and others, but the usual small niggling, fussy-mussy criticism, which thinks it can improve people by telling them where they are wrong, and results only in putting them in straitjackets of hesitancy and self-consciousness, and weazening all vision and bravery.”

People Thinking Mean Self Hate Results Consciousness Vision Criticism I Hate Bravery Orthodox Usual Self Consciousness Matthew Fussy

Book:If You Want to Write

Source: If You Want to Write

“We ought to know about our culinary past. Food and identity is terribly important ... I don't mean we should go out and eat historic dishes, but we should know what makes us different ... self-confident nations have that sense of where they come from.”

Knows Should Mean Important Different Self Past Nations Identity Ought Culinary Dishes Historic Self Confident

Author:Tom Jaine

“I've thought a lot about what it means to be the President. I also understand an administration is not one person but an administration is dedicated citizens who are called by the President to serve the country, to serve a cause greater than self. And so I've thought about an administration of people who represent all America, but people who understand my compassionate and conservative philosophy.”

People Mean Persons Self Country Philosophy America Causes President Greater Citizens Conservative Administration Compassionate Dedicated

Author:George W. Bush

“Science can only be comprehended epistemologically, which means as one category of possible knowledge, as long as knowledge is not equated either effusively with the absolute knowledge of a great philosophy or blindly with scientistic self-understanding of the actual business of research.”

Mean Long Self Philosophy Understanding Research Absolutes Categories Self Understanding Great Philosophy

Author:Jurgen Habermas

“I have a rule of thumb now and that's that somebody [she dates] has to have been married and they have to have had kids. Everything boils down to perspective. If your potential mate does not have the same perspective that you do then you're going to be lost.... If somebody has never been married, they don't know compromise ... [and] if they don't have children, they don't know the absolute self-sacrifice it takes and what it means to be a parent.”

Ifs Knows Mean Children Doe Has Beens Self Kids Lost Parent Sacrifice Perspective Married Absolutes Compromise Mates Thumbs Self Sacrifice

Author:Eva LaRue

“I was the worst, most sickly kid of all - 30 pounds underweight. The girls used to beat me up. Actually I was a mean kid, early on because I had no self-esteem.”

Mean Self Kids Used Girl Worst Self Esteem Beats Esteem Pounds

Author:Jack LaLanne

“Fool! I mean not That poor-souled piece of heroism, self-slaughter; Oh no! the miserablest day we live There's many a better thing to do than die!”

Mean Self Dies Poor Pieces Fool Suicide Things To Do Heroism Slaughter Better Things To Do

Author:George Darley

“The 'coming of the Self' is immanent; and the process of collective 'individuation' is living itself out in human history. One way or another, the world is going to be made a single whole entity. But it will be unified either in mutual mass destruction or by means of mutual human consciousness. If a sufficient number of individuals can have the experience of the coming of the Self as an individual, inner experience, we may just possibly be spared the worst features of its external manifestation.”

“Sexual integrity means honestly recognizing our own impulses and desires and honoring them, whether or not we choose to act on them. If we value integrity, we must also value diversity in sexual expression and orientation, recognizing that there is no one truth, or one way, that fits everyone.Sexuality is sacred because through it we make a connection with another self - but it is misused and perverted when it becomes an arena of power-over, a means of treating another - or oneself - as an object.”

Ifs Way Mean Self Desire Values Objects Expression Fit Integrity Diversity Connections Sacred Oneself Sexuality Honestly One Way Impulse Recognizing Arena Orientation Misused

Book:Dreaming the Dark

Source: Dreaming the Dark

“Certain bedrock principles - arguably a true conservative mindset - dictate a respect for life. A life-conserving sensibility means that guns are meant for self-defense, not for needless killing. [...] This gun owner is no gun nut; but a right-to-self-defense fanatic.”

Mean Self Certain Principles Gun Killing Conservative Mindset Defense Owners Nuts Sensibility Fanatics Self Defense Bedrock Gun Owners Conserving

Author:Ilana Mercer

“Whatever be the means adopted, you must at last return to the Self, so why not abide as the Self here and now?”

Mean Self Lasts Return Why Not Adopted Here And Now

Book:The Spiritual Teaching of Ramana Maharshi

Source: The Spiritual Teaching of Ramana Maharshi

“A conviction that you are a daughter of God gives you a feeling of comfort in your self-worth. It means that you can find strength in the balm of Christ. It will help you meet the heartaches and challenges with faith and serenity. ... A woman can and must have an identity and feel useful, valued, and needed whether she is single or married. She must feel that she can do something for someone else that no one else ever born can do”

“Tantra means the avoidance of a set or defined form of spirituality. Tantra is intuitive self-discovery.”

Mean Self Philosophy Form Spirituality Discovery Self Discovery Defined Intuitive Avoidance Tantra

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In the wars against Revolutionary and Napoleonic France, as in so many later conflicts, British women seem to have been no more markedly pacifist than men. Instead, and exactly like so many of their male countrymen, some women found ways of combining support for the national interest with a measure of self-promotion. By assisting the war effort, women demonstrated that their concerns were by no means confined to the domestic sphere. Under cover of a patriotism that was often genuine and profound, they carved out for themselves a real if precarious place in the public sphere.”

“A host of positive psychological changes inevitably will result from widespread economic security. The dignity of the individual will flourish when the decisions concerning his life are in his own hands, when he has the means to seek self-improvement. Personal conflicts among husbands, wives and children will diminish when the unjust measurement of human worth on the scale of dollars is eliminated.”

“The advanced education in Tantra obviously has to do with the entrance into samadhi, the negation of the self. That is what the path of negation means, not the negation of life, but the negation of anything that is not enlightenment.”

Mean Self Path Enlightenment Concentration Entrances Tantra Samadhi Negation Advanced Education

Author:Frederick Lenz

“That's what self-discovery seems to mean to most people. You're going to beat yourself up. You're going to reduce what you're supposed to be and do to a set of rules so you can defy them, or so you can perform them and feel smug.”

People Feels Mean Self Seems Buddhism Beats Discovery Self Discovery Buddhist Supposed To Be Etiquette

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Self-discovery is a process of dissolution and creation. Dissolution means envelopment in eternity. Creation is bringing into focus new awareness”

Mean Self Process Focus Awareness Creation Discovery Eternity Self Discovery Mysticism Dissolution

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If none of your role models provide the answer, then it is time to go within and ask yourself, "What would make me happy?" In other words, let your feelings guide you. This doesn't work well if you focus narrowly on your personal needs. I am not talking about selfishness or self-interest. When I ask, What will make you happy?, I mean, What way of loving others feels right for you? Choose a way of loving that makes you happy, and your efforts will be play rather than work.”

“Art is a creative effort of which the wellsprings lie in the spirit, and which brings us at once the most intimate self of the artist and the secret concurrences which he has perceived in things by means of a vision or intuition all his own, and not to be expressed in ideas and in words-expressible only in the work of art.”

Mean Art Ideas Self Spirit Lying Artist Effort Secret Vision Creative Art Is Intuition Intimate Works Of Art Wellspring Concurrence

Author:Jacques Maritain

“Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights. It is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect. Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.”

People Humans Mean Children Important Self Helping Today Struggle Rights Tomorrow Elements Increase Our Children Human Rights Self Respect Passports

Book:By any means necessary

Source: By any means necessary

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