Best self & world Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Some people stay in the academic world just to avoid becoming self-aware. You can quote me on that.”

“Moral decay first hampers and then strangles honest government, regular commerce, and even the ability to take genuine pleasure in the goods of this world. Compulsion is applied from above as self-discipline relaxes below, and the last liberties expire under the weight of a unitary state.... Since religion has lost its empire over the souls of men, the most prominent boundary that divided good from evil is overthrown; kings and nations are guided by chance and none can say where are the natural limits of despotism and the bound of license.”

“It would be incredibly presumptuous and self-serving of me to believe that Facebook was the end of history. The only way it could possibly be the end of history is if it becomes some sort of artificial super intelligence that takes over the world.”

Ifs World Way Believe Ends Self Would Be Serving Artificial Self Serving Presumptuous

Author:Sean Parker

“So much of the world's suffering results from the sinful action or inaction of ourselves and others. For example, people look at a famine and wonder where God is, but the world produces enough food for each person to have 3,000 calories a day. It's our own irresponsibility and self-centeredness that prevents people from getting fed.”

People World Looks Persons Self Enough Action Suffering Results Wonder Example Produce Feds Inaction Famine Calories Irresponsibility Self Centeredness Centeredness

Author:Lee Strobel

“Now, for Romney to believe that somebody's grandmother is going to be so cut off she is going to self deport... He certainly shows no concern for the humanity of people who are already here... I think you have to live in worlds of Swiss bank accounts and Cayman Island accounts and automatic $20 million a year income with no work to have some fantasy this far from reality.”

People Thinking World Years Believe Self Shows Reality Humanity Millions Fantasy Cutting Republican Concern Accounts Income Islands Grandmother Romney Bank Accounts Swiss Cayman Islands

Author:Newt Gingrich

“To disguise nothing, to conceal nothing, to write about those things that are closest to our pain, our happiness; to write about our sexual clumsiness, the agonies of Tantalus, the depth of our discouragement-what we glimpse in our dreams-our despair. To write about the foolish agonies of anxiety, the refreshment of our strength when these are ended; to write about our painful search for self, jeopardized by a stranger in the post office, a half-seen face in a train window, to write about the continents and populations of our dreams, about love and death, good and evil, the end of the world.”

“Wisdom is to see the difference between nirvana and this world, this self-reflection that the mind creates.”

World Mind Self Wisdom Differences This World Buddhism Reflection Self Reflection

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Step into the mystery of the mind. There are billions of minds, there are billions of selves. There are billions of worlds and dimensions.”

World Mind Self Steps Mystery Buddhism Billions Dimensions Other Worlds

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You exist someplace else, and when you can contact yourself in that other place, when you can open up a kind of inter-dimensional phone line between yourself and our various selves, when you have become aware of that, that's when magic begins.”

World Kind Self Lines Magic Buddhism Phones Various Contact Other Worlds One Line

Author:Frederick Lenz

“For an advanced preceiver, the play of life is to assemble and reassemble the self in alternate realities of which this is one.”

World Self Play Reality Life Is Buddhism Other Worlds Alternate Realities

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We perceive the solidification as the world around us, which appears to be relatively solid. But that solidification is just really a reflection of the solidification of one's sense of self.”

World Self Awareness Buddhism Reflection Self Awareness Perceive Sense Of Self

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Most people are not in the world of awe and wonder. They're in the world of deadness. Their perceptual fields and bodies are completely self-reflective, and all they see is themselves wherever they go.”

People World Self Body Wonder Awareness Fields Buddhism Awe Awe And Wonder

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In our world, in our pre-World War III condition, meditation is considered a cult activity and people who practice self-discovery are actually persecuted and ridiculed.”

People World War Self Humanity Practice Meditation Conditions Buddhism Activity Discovery Self Discovery War Of The Worlds Our World World War Ii World War I Cult Persecuted

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In the dead world of the Western mind all that is seen are shades of gray. There's a cloud over every experience. There's no possibility of divine incarnation, divine intervention, let alone that one's self in every moment is divine.”

World Mind Self Moments Humanity Possibility Divine Buddhism Western Clouds Gray Shade Intervention Incarnation Divine Intervention Shades Of Gray

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Happiness is self-generated as the mind becomes still. As we become involved with the desires of the world, we lose that centering, that stillness.”

World Mind Stills Self Happiness Desire Loses Buddhism Involved Stillness Centering

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I have been spending the better part of my professional life trying to create self-driving cars. At Google, I am working with a world-class team of engineers to turn science fiction into reality.”

World Trying Has Beens Self Reality Turns Fiction Class Team Car Science Fiction Spending Driving Engineers Google World Class Professional Life Driving Cars

Author:Sebastian Thrun

“You don't have to meditate. You don't have to practice self-discovery and Buddhism. You should only practice self-discovery if you really have had it with the human world.”

Ifs World Inspirational Should Humans Self Practice Buddhism Discovery Self Discovery

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Self-realization is not the awareness that this world is a dream, that's a part of self-realization.”

World Self Dream Awareness This World Self Realization Realization Hinduism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The dreams of the self are manifold and endless and they exist in all the myriad worlds and conditions that appear to have solidity. When you're dreaming at night, something seems very real, but when you wake up the dream is gone and so is all that apparent solidity.”

World Real Self Dream Seems Night Gone Conditions Wake Up Endless Hinduism Manifold Solidity Dreaming At Night

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We may never be martyrs but we can die to self, to sin, to the world, to our plans and ambitions. That is the significance of baptism; we died with Christ and rose to new life.”

World May Self Dies Christ Sin Plans Ambition Died Rose Significance New Life Martyr Baptism

Author:Vance Havner

“In regards to being a fashion aficionado, there's a certain amount of taking yourself seriously in the professional world. The self-effacing person can't completely go down the serious road. But I design, and love when things are beautiful.”

World Persons Self Beautiful Certain Fashion Design Serious Amount And Love Regard

Author:St. Vincent

“We live in the Facebook era. I think everyone, not just celebrities, have an unprecedented level of self-awareness, of presenting yourself to the world. The truth is, it starts with how you look, and that goes into how you dress.”

Thinking World Looks Self Levels Awareness Truth Is Self Awareness Dresses Eras Presenting Unprecedented Presenting Yourself

Author:Allison Williams

“In the course of his long, turbulent career, W. E. B. Du Bois attempted virtually every possible solution to the problem of twentieth-century racism...scholarship, propaganda, integration, national self-determination, human rights, cultural and economic separatism, politics, international communism, expatriation, third world solidarity.”

“Grosvenor and Burke suggest that continually, though silently, a school building tells students who they are and how they should think about the world. It can help to manufacture rote obedience or independent activity; it can create high self-confidence or low self-esteem.”

Thinking World Should Self Helping School Self Esteem Students Building Activity Lows Independent Self Confidence Esteem Obedience Low Self Esteem School Buildings

Author:Alison Lurie

“My external sensations are no less private to my self than are my thoughts or my feelings. In either case my experience falls within my own circle, a circle closed on the outside... the whole world for each is peculiar and private to that soul.”

World Soul Self Whole Feelings Fall My Own Existence Cases Elements Circles Whole World Sensations Surround Peculiar Spheres My Thoughts Opaque

Author:F. H. Bradley

“Ignorance of the law of irreducibility was no excuse. I could no longer excuse myself with the claim that I didn't know the law -- for knowledge of self and of the world is the law that, even though unattainable, cannot be broken, and no one can excuse himself by saying that he doesn't know it. . . . The renewed originality of the sin is this: I have to carry out my unknowing, I shall be sinning originally against life.”

Knows World Self Law Sin Ignorance Broken Claims Excuse Originality Self Knowledge No Excuses Unattainable Sinning Unknowing Ignorance Of The Law

Author:Clarice Lispector

“Book love is something like romantic love. When we are reading a really great book, burdens feel lighter, cares seem smaller, and commonplaces are suddenly delightful. You become your best optimistic self. Like romantic love, book love fills you with a certain warmth and completeness. The world holds promise.”

Source: The Little Guide to Your Well-read Life

“There's the part that I just want what I want, and I don't want to be bothered by anything else, and sort of the short-term more compulsive self. And then that's the longer-term, aspirational self that wants to be informed about the world and wants to be a good citizen. The best media basically helps us strike a balance between those two things.”

World Want Two Self Helping Term Media Balance Citizens Strikes Two Things Short Term Bothered Good Citizen

Author:Eli Pariser

“Works of art produced in the contemporary world are a further expression of that. But I don't think there is an active, ongoing nihilist self-consciousness in the artist.”

Thinking World Art Self Artist Consciousness Expression Active Contemporary Works Of Art Ongoing Self Consciousness Nihilist

Author:Leonard Baskin

“The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn't revolutionize the automobile industry that way.”

“We have evidence all around us in our daily analytic practice and in contemporary world history that this earth-shaking archetypal event is taking place here and now. It has already started. It is manifesting itself in international relations; in the breakdown of the social structures of Western civilization; in political, ethnic, and religious groupings; as well as within the psyches of individuals- the momentous event of the coming of the self into conscious realization.”

“Prayer is not a monologue. It speaks to God and to the community. In the last analysis, religion is not what goes on inside a soul. It is what goes on in the world, between people, between us and God. To trap faith in a monologue, and pretend that it resides solely inside the self, undermines the true interchange of all belief.”

People World Soul Self Lasts Belief Speak Community Prayer Goes On Analysis Traps Monologues Interchange

Author:David Wolpe

“Life is just masturbation in a sense, mentally. What people do is they just create a world out of their self-reflection.”

People World Self Life Is Suffering Reflection Self Reflection Masturbation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When you die you pass into inner worlds and continue to perceive. Death is not the dissolution of the self. Death is rather just a change in perception.”

World Self Death Dies Perception Perceive Inner World Dissolution

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Humans call animals 'dumb'... after they robbed their entire own precious world. They are intelligent beings in their own right, and thoroughly self-sufficient... if not molested by humans. Yet, after millennia of slavery by selfish/callous humans they're made to look dumb! The 'superior species' in their situations would, too, appear 'dumb'.”

Ifs World Humans Looks Made Self Animal Situation Intelligent Slavery Species Selfish Superiors Dumb Sufficient Animal Rights Self Sufficient Callous

Author:Adela Popescu

“Self-confidence is not hope; it is the self-judgment of your own internal forces in their relation to the world without, which results from the failure of many hopes and the non-realization of many fears.”

World Self Force Results Confidence Judgment Relation Self Confidence Realization Internals

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Only the individual who has come to terms with his self can have a dispassionate attitude toward the world.”

World Self Individual Term Attitude Dispassionate

Book:Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“It is not love of self but hatred of self which is at the root of the troubles that afflict our world.”

World Self Trouble Self Love Roots Hatred Our World

Book:The Passionate State of Mind

Source: The Passionate State of Mind

“What I mean by living to one's-self is living in the world, as in it, not of it: it is as if no one know there was such a person, and you wished no one to know it: it is to be a silent spectator of the mighty scene of things, not an object of attention or curiosity in it; to take a thoughtful, anxious interest in what is passing in the world, but not to feel the slightest inclination to make or meddle with it.”

Ifs Knows World Feels Mean Persons Self Interest Attention Objects Scene Silent Curiosity Passing Passings Thoughtful Anxious Inclination Spectators

Book:Table-talk: Or Original Essays

Source: Table-talk: Or Original Essays

“Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully--wild, generous, drastic--in an unrationed profligacy of self ... And in that split second when you understand that you finally are about to die-to uncreate the world no time to do it over no more chances--that instant when you realize your conscious existence is truly flaring nova, won't you want to have used up all-all-the splendor that you are?”

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Author:Robin Morgan

“What has to be given up is not the I, but that drive for self-affirmation which impels man to flee from the unreliable, unsolid, unlasting, unpredictable, dangerous world of relation into the having of things.”

Men World Self Given Dangerous Relation Affirmation Unpredictable Given Up Unreliable Dangerous World Self Affirmation

Author:Martin Buber

“Amazement and wonder signify that one's concepts of self and of the world and of other people are ready to be re-formed.”

People World Self Wonder Ready Concepts Amazement

Book:DISCLOSING MAN TO HIMSELF

Source: DISCLOSING MAN TO HIMSELF

“Self-interest and mutual interest are inextricably linked. National interests can best be advanced through collective action, ... Calculate not just the human misery of the poor themselves. Calculate our loss: The aid, the lost opportunity to trade, the short-term consequences of the multiple conflicts; the long-term consequences on the attitude to the wealthy world of injustice and abject deprivation amongst the poor.”

“The dream world, the true freedom of the imagination, does not open to self-conscious manipulation.”

World Doe Self Dream Imagination Conscious Manipulation Self Conscious True Freedom Dream World

Author:Wendy Beckett

“The activities of drawing, eating and drinking, all involve assimilations by the self of desirable elements from the world, a transfer of goodness from without to within.”

World Self Activity Goodness Elements Eating Drinking Drawing Desirable Transfers Assimilation Eating And Drinking

Author:Alain de Botton

“Poetry, and the principle of Self, of which money is the visible incarnation, are the God and the Mammon of the world.”

World Self Principles Visible Incarnation

Book:A defence of poetry. Essay on the literature, arts, and manners of the Athenians. Preface to the Banquet of Plato. The banquet

Source: A defence of poetry. Essay on the literature, arts, and manners of the Athenians. Preface to the Banquet of Plato. The banquet

“Gently resist the temptation to chase your dreams into the world; pursue them in your heart until they disappear into the Self, and leave them there.”

World Heart Self Dream Disappear Pursue Temptation Your Dreams Chase Your Dreams

Author:Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“It is possible that scientists, poets, painters and writers are all members of the same family of people whose gift it is by nature to take those things which we call common-place and to 're-present' them to us - the world - in such ways that our self-imposed limitations are expanded.”

People World Way Self Common Poet Members Scientist Painter Limitation Renewal

Author:Gary Zukav

“A lover is never a completely self-reliant person viewing the world through his own eyes, but a hostage to a certain delusion.”

World Persons Self Eye Certain Lovers Delusion Hostage Self Reliant

Author:Alexander Theroux

“I unconsciously decided that, even if it wasn't an ideal world, it should be. So I painted only the ideal aspects of it - pictures in which there are no drunken slatterns or self-centered mothers... only foxy grandpas who played baseball with the kids and boys who fished from logs and got up circuses in the backyard.”

Ifs World Should Self Kids Mother Boys Aspect Ideals Decided Baseball Idealism Circus Self Centered Backyards Grandpa Ideal World

Author:Norman Rockwell

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