We in the West seem to have made a fetish out of complete individual self-sufficiency, of not needing help, of being completely private except in a v….
Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself..
The more government dependents, the more likely that democracy will become a conspiracy against self-reliance..
A lot of the shadow self is the home of poetry, story, prayer. My deepest understandings are often released from the part of me of which I am least a….
The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college; the task is to help him become a self-educa….
Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centred and even solipsistic..
Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose y….
Never stop working on your statue until the divine glory of virtue shines out on you, until you see self-mastery enthroned upon its holy seat..
They who have no central purpose in their life fall an easy prey to petty worries, fears, troubles, and self-pitying, all of which are indications of….
There can be no self-government without self-discipline. There can be no self-government without self-control. There can be no liberty unless it is g….
A company that cannot self-correct cannot thrive..
The challenge is whether China as a rising country, the United States as the superpower, can develop a cooperative relationship in this period before….
Bealer has a number of reasons for thinking that a naturalistic epistemology is self-undermining. Let me focus on one of these. (I've tried to take o….
Self-pity is a dead-end road. You make the choice to drive down it. It's up to you to decide to stay parked there or to turn around and drive out..
Being goal-oriented instead of self-oriented is crucial. I know so many people who want to be writers. But let me tell you, they really don't want to….
The idea of buddha mind is not purely a concept or a theoretical, metaphysical idea. It is something extremely real that we can experience ourselves.….
We're not going to reform our moronic land-use laws, which mandate suburban sprawl one way or another. They're simply going to be ignored when it bec….
Prejudice and passion and suspicion are more dangerous than the incitement of self-interest or the most stubborn adherence to real differences of opi….
Politics now is really only about self-interest, which means it has violence built into it because your self-interest is going to collide with the se….
All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should i….
There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one's own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt and the wo….