Nationalism is not the awakening of nations to self-consciousness; it invents nations where they do not exist..

Self-portraiture is something one should never get involved in, since it is wrong to lie even though one endeavours to tell the truth..

Long periods of recession, which tend to be self-perpetuating, are usually ended by war, or by preparations for it..

It's only recently that we've discovered that the artist's inner self is somehow more important than the public world. I'm happier to create exterior….

When the restlessness of the mind, intellect and self is stilled through the practice of Yoga, the yogi by the grace of the Spirit within himself fin….

It is very hard to separate one's self from a character. Sometimes the people closest to me have to be very understanding..

The Earth should not be cut up into hundreds of different sections, each inhabited by a self-defined segment of humanity that considers its own welfa….

It is not his business to argue men into faith, for that cannot be done; but it is his business to demonstrate the intellectual adequacy of the bibli….

A system of limitless individual choices, with respect to communications, is not necessarily in the interest of citizenship and self-government..

I always choose to look, as much as one can, at the supernatural not being something that exists outside of nature, but a deeper, fundamental heart o….

That which rises and sinks is made up of what it rises from. The finality of the universe is the God Arunachala. Meditating on Him or on the seer, th….

After years and years of everybody commenting on the way I look and dress and being photographed, one starts to become self-conscious and starts to p….

The answer to crime is not gun control, it is law enforcement and self-control..

Tiger Woods has been unlucky with his body. I don't know whether some of it is self-induced or some of it is just unlucky. But we never know what hap….

But when I call for a hero, out comes my lazy old self; so I never know who I am, nor how many I am or will be. I'd love to be able to touch a bell a….

I am very much aware of my own double self... The well-known one is very under control; everything is planned and very secure. The unknown one can be….

Transformation occurs when existing solutions, assumed truths and past decisions are exposed as unrealistic and self-defeating..

Self-love makes us deceive ourselves in almost all matters, to censure others, and to blame them for the same faults that we do not correct in oursel….

The heart becomes wide by forgetting self, but narrow by thinking of the self and pitying one's self. To gain a wide and broad heart you must have so….

I think that if you make something that's relatable then people will attach themselves to it. You can express it in a lot of different ways but I fee….

Listen, young people, I understand narcissism - clearly. But at least I have the decency to hate myself. And that's what's missing from the young peo….