The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.
If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
Love proves itself by deeds, so how am I to show my love? Great deeds are forbidden me. The only way I can prove my love is by scattering flowers, and these flowers are every little sacrifice, every glance and word, and the doing of the least actions for love.
As the ego cogito, subjectivity is the consciousness that represents something, relates this representation back to itself, and so gathers with itself.
We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.
If you look at other countries, you see they have different values: defend more, pass the ball out more, winning is holy. In England, you could say that sport itself is holy. They say, ‘Look, guys, it’s about more than just winning.’
History repeats itself. So you might wanna pay attention.
Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.
Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts.
Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.
‘Playboy’ made the good life a reality for me and made it the subject matter of my paintings – not affluence and luxury as such, but joie de vivre itself.
The death of Churchill at 90 was one of those watershed moments in which the obituary rises to a special calling beyond the sharing of remembered times. It gave an older generation a rare opportunity to explain something of itself to its children.
This sentence contradicts itself – no actually it doesn’t.
The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself.
Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men’s thoughts, to speak other men’s words, to follow other men’s habits.
President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.
At first, I only laughed at myself. Then I noticed that life itself is amusing. I’ve been in a generally good mood ever since.
Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next.
The real peril of war lies not in military defeat. It lies in war itself, whether we win or lose.
Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.
Speech is civilization itself.
Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.
Language itself changes slowly, but the Internet has speeded up the process of those changes so you notice them more quickly.
Genetic engineering is a result of science advancement, so I don’t think that in itself is bad. If used wisely, genetics can be beneficial, but they can be abused, too.
The key thing about wealth in a capitalist economy is that it reproduces itself and usually earns a positive net return.
The Cube is an imitation of life itself – or even an improvement on life.
Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits.
It is very important for a priest, in the parish itself, to see how people trust in him and to experience, in addition to their trust, also their generosity in pardoning his weaknesses.
Stated clearly enough, an idea may cancel itself out.
So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.
Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
There’s no better book with which to defend the Bible than the Bible itself.
Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.
The story of Noah, like other stories in the first 11 chapters of Genesis, are archetypal. Noah’s story tells us that human beings have an inherent tendency towards violence both towards their fellow human beings and towards the creation itself. The story tells us that this violence grieves God.
When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.
Censorship reflects a society’s lack of confidence in itself.
Technology itself is neither good nor bad. People are good or bad.
A great restaurant doesn’t distinguish itself by how few mistakes it makes but by how well they handle those mistakes.
Nothing is accidental in the universe – this is one of my Laws of Physics – except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident, pure divinity.
Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
Sailing a boat calls for quick action, a blending of feeling with the wind and water as well as with the very heart and soul of the boat itself. Sailing teaches alertness and courage, and gives in return a joyousness and peace that but few sports afford.
Recognition is a reward in itself. Any form of appreciation, even a small word, is important.
Fate is a sempiternal and unchangeable series and chain of things, rolling and unraveling itself through eternal sequences of cause and effect, of which it is composed and compounded.
The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.
The scarcity of the music not only makes the music itself enjoyable but it also gives the collector a strange sense of superiority.
The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.
In my mind, if anyone can save the world from destroying itself, it will be the creative minds: the thinkers, the artists and the avant-garde trailblazers that will ultimately bring down the whole matrix of untruth and set mankind on a lesser destructive and more spiritual path.
We’re obviously going to spend a lot in marketing because we think the product sells itself.
Remember, life itself is a mission. While we are on the go, we need to stop between steps to re-focus on the Word and the Will of God. While we are on the go, I mean, while we are on the mission, we need to sometimes stop at intervals to assess our progress and prepare ourselves for the challenges ahead.
I think it’s always better to be in an F1 car because, in general, the car behaves itself.
Very broadly, literature concerns itself with the internal, cinema with the external.
Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic.
Democracy… while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
As the heat of the coal differs from the coal itself, so do memory, perception, judgment, emotion, and will, differ from the brain which is the instrument of thought.
Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.
A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.
By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint.
Management must speak with one voice. When it doesn’t management itself becomes a peripheral opponent to the team’s mission.
We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly – spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.
Brexit was a fantastic example of a nation shooting itself full in the face.
Do people have an idea of who they think I am? Yes, and that’s fine with me. My music will speak for itself.
Life is full of confusion. Confusion of love, passion, and romance. Confusion of family and friends. Confusion with life itself. What path we take, what turns we make. How we roll our dice.
When you go on a road trip, the trip itself becomes part of the story.
There is a force of exultation, a celebration of luck, when a writer finds himself a witness to the early morning of a culture that is defining itself, branch by branch, leaf by leaf, in that self-defining dawn, which is why, especially at the edge of the sea, it is good to make a ritual of the sunrise.
