We love best those who are, or act for us, a self we do not wish to be or act out..
I managed to reach a depth of self-loathing that usually takes a night of drinking to achieve..
It's hard, sometimes, when nothing's stopping you, to know what's stopping you..
It's actually hard for creative people to know themselves because the creative self is more complex than the non-creative self. The things that stand….
The true use of Shakespeare or of Cervantes, of Homer or of Dante, of Chaucer or of Rabelais, is to augment one's own growing inner self. . . . The m….
No self respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party that ignores her sex..
Why else is politics the perfect refuge for every liar, cheat, and self-serving toad that was ever born? All you need is a good set of teeth and the ….
It is self-evident that no number of men, by conspiring, and calling themselves a government, can acquire any rights whatever over other men, or othe….
Under the strain of this continually impending doom and by the sleeplessness to which I now condemned myself, ay, even beyond what I had thought poss….
To conceive music, to execute it in front of others, to make it so others can do it...it can be pretty humbling, and kind of scary. So yeah, I don't ….
We need to look at learning as the product of educational self-organization. It’s not about making learning happen; it’s about letting it happen..
Those who applaud social production and networked amateurism, the colorful cacophony that is the Internet, and the creative capacities of everyday pe….
Education, introspection, self-love and excellence are the only ways to overcome the wrath of ignorance.
Not surprisingly, the chief way self-published authors get the word out about their books is through the Internet..
As I get older ... I become more convinced that good government is not a substitute for self-government..
Peace means loyalty to self. ... And loyalty to one's self means never a gap between thought, speech, act..
The real key to health and happiness and success is self knowledge.
What is supposed to happen in a democracy is that each sovereign citizen will always vote in the public interest for the safety and welfare of all. B….
At the core of the risk-free society is a self-indulgent failure of nerve..
If I had it to do again, I would less often judge myself and more often ask for a jury..
God demands nothing less than self - surrender as the price for the only real freedom that is worth having..