Government isn't a good way to solve problems ... [G]overnment is concerned mostly with self-perpetuation and is subject to fantastic ideas about its….
In the polling booth narrow self interest wins out over lofty principles..
Ultimate peace begins within; when we find peace within there will be no more conflict, no more occasion for war. If this is the peace you seek, puri….
Intense asana practice - too much, too soon - can have detrimental effects. It can also promote a dissociation from the personal sensitivity and self….
If a person lacks self- acceptance, he can't live with himself; if he lacks self-criticism, others can't live with him..
The essence of true nobility is neglect of self. Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of a great action is gone, like the bloom from a soi….
Generally, people who are not self-realized are full of themselves. One who is self-realized sees that the whole world is full of one..
When you mentioned something about self improvement, the implication is that the negro is something distinct or different, and, therefore, needs to l….
When one becomes for an instant one's former self, that is to say different from what one has been for some time past, one's sensibility, being no lo….
The men who made the Industrial Revolution are usually pictured as hardfaced businessmen with no other motive than self-interest. That is certainly w….
He had never before felt so self-consciously young, nor experienced such appetite, such impatience for the story to begin..
Sloth is the great enemy -- the inspirer of cowardice, irresolution, self-pitying grief, and trivial, hairsplitting doubts. Sloth may also be a psych….
Hard work breeds self-respect..
What happens when we examine the claims made for Western liberalism as a universalizing ideology of tolerance, human dignity, equality, and compassio….
The Republicans have a positive talent for self-destruction..
If the foundation is firm the building can withstand calamities. The practice of yoga is the foundation so that the self is not shaken under any circ….
Buddhism doesn't really have much time for political mass-movements. We are so trained to think of politics in terms of acting collectively, acting a….
We humans, you see, have an infinite capacity for self-rationalization..
Part of the human Self or Soul is not subject to laws of space and time..
Cats are autocrats of naked self-interest..
I've become convinced that every person should treat himself strictly and even rudely and distrustfully; it's difficult to tame the beast in oneself..