Self-portraiture is something one should never get involved in, since it is wrong to lie even though one endeavours to tell the truth..
As for me, I am unfortunate enough not to posses a happy temperament like Najdorf, who views every happening in a rosy light and avoids any possibili….
In the Age of Aquarius, the depression and stress on mankind will tear up people who do not have the technical knowledge of self..
A sort of egotistical self-evaluation is unavoidable in those joys in which erudition and art mingle and in which aesthetic pleasure may become more ….
In a nuclear age, and in an age of serious environmental degradation, apocalyptic belief creates a serious second order danger. The precarious logic ….
I am a driven writer. I feel guilty if I don't write, not self-indulgent if I do..
That which especially distinguishes a high order of man from a low order of man, that which constitutes human goodness, human nobleness, is surely no….
Nothing looks as self-satisfied as a contented cat..
The answer to crime is not gun control, it is law enforcement and self-control..
Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in peoples minds with emotion..
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….
English character and English freedom depend comparatively little on the form which the Constitution assumes at Westminster. A centralised democracy ….
Luckily, I's learned at an early age that self-preservation was the only way to survive with your soul intact..
I don't mind being goofy and silly. I love to make people laugh and I'm not self-conscious..
I’m not a sociopath or a freak (although I don’t suppose people who are sociopaths or freaks self-identify as such); I just don’t enjoy being with pe….
A system of limitless individual choices, with respect to communications, is not necessarily in the interest of citizenship and self-government..
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….
Where there is love, there is no question. Where there is a question, there is no love. Then it becomes a business. So love is the totality of the se….
Little self-denials, little honesties, little passing words of sympathy, little nameless acts of kindness, little silent victories over favorite temp….
This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving, self-sacrif….
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….