Doubtless the world is wicked enough; but it will not be improved by the extension of a spirit which self-righteously sees more to reform outside of ….
One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East - is that the cap….
Self-actualizing people must be what they can be..
We are unlikely to cease making gods or inventing ceremonies to please them for as long as we are afraid of death, or of the dark, and for as long as….
I wasn't writing, I wasn't drawing, and personality-wise, I was just completely arrogant. I'm not trying to be overly apologetic for my behavior - I ….
A human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people.
Where you're from only matters in relation to where you are..
If you interrupt the writing of fast narrative with too much introspection and self-criticism, you will be lucky if you write 500 words a day and you….
One of the things I love about translation is it obliterates the self. When I'm trying to figure out what Tu Fu has to say, I have to kind of imperso….
I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect..
I think what I would say to my younger self, and probably to younger, just starting-out writers is that a lot of times you're just afraid to put your….
Our grandfathers lived in a world of largely self-sufficient, inward-looking national economies - but our great-great grandfathers lived, as we do, i….
There's such a self-conscious balance that goes into television. Also, these are not people that think things through..
Everyone, whether he is self-denying or self-indulgent, is seeking after the Beloved. Every place may be the shrine of love, whether it be mosque or ….
The history of psychiatry rewrites itself so often that it almost resembles the self-serving chronicles of a totalitarian and slightly paranoid regim….
Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity..
I made the assumption, wrong of course, that conceptual analysis was a brief preliminary on the road to finding out about the nature of free will, co….
The man who is bigger than his job keeps cool. He does not lose his head, he refuses to become rattled, to fly off in a temper. The man who would con….
I am self-taught. In other words, God is my teacher..
If you give your Self a chance, your Self will give you all the chances..
That ignorant confidence in one's self and one's future, which comes in life's first dawn, has a sort of mournful charm in experienced eyes, who know….