Every man finds his limitations, Mr. Holmes, but at least it cures us of the weakness of self-satisfaction..
The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars; it is that from o….
Fear and self-doubt are the deadly enemies of creativity. Don’t invite either into your mind..
It is the cruelest of all ironies that moderns imagine themselves to be (abstractly understood) "individuals," because in actuality moderns are "type….
The oil corporations spend a lot of money to get, say, the tar sands pipeline through, but nobody's - you know, there are definitely environmentalist….
She put both her hands on his shoulders and gazed at him long, with a deep look of ecstasy and yet searchingly. She scrutinized his face to make up f….
The Rationalist case needs no straining of evidence and always gains by the severest self-criticism..
There is no extrahistorical or eternalist or abstractivistically pure standpoint where we can get oriented in the absolute Truth per se before dealin….
Ritual disposal of the dead speaks clearly of an awareness of death, and thus an awareness of self..
One challenge of our adventure on earth is to rise above dead systems...wars, nations, destructions...to refuse to be a part of them, and express the….
I didn't dare to think of anything then except the "facts." To get beneath the facts I would have had to be an artist, and one doesn't become an arti….
All men contain several men inside them, and most of us bounce from one self to another without ever knowing who we are..
There is nothing so simple as being the Self. It requires no effort, no aid. One has to leave off the wrong identity and be in his (her) eternal, nat….
Love is our response to our highest values. Love is self-enjoyment. The noblest love is born out of admiration of another's values..
And, lastly, to vindicate these rights, when actually violated and attacked, the subjects of England are entitled, in the first place, to the regular….
We were in front of a live audience and I would be acting with the man who was playing my lover, and we used those words, and the audience would titt….
In self-trust all the virtues are comprehended..
...you can't let something that'll probably never happen ruin your life. You're only helping to make it a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Let Christ turn your natural optimism into Christian hope, your energy into moral virtue, your good will into genuine self-sacrificin g love! This is….
Faith is a state of mind that can be conditioned through self-discipline. Faith will accomplish..
Listen to me: I never married because I was too easily bored. It's an awful, self-defeating trait to have. It's much better to be too easily interest….