Quotes 601 till 620 of 795.
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The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
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The negative cautions of science are never popular. If the experimentalist would not commit himself, the social philosopher, the preacher, and the pedagogue tried the harder to give a short-cut answer.
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The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.
An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth -
The older author is constantly rediscovering himself in the more or less fossilized productions of his earlier years.
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The oldest pitcher acquires confidence in his ballclub - he doesn't try to do it all himself.
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The one who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The one who walks alone, is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.
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The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.
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The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbour to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen.
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The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself.
Caspar David Friedrich and romantic painting (1994 edition), Vilo International -
The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents.
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The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.
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The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.
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The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.
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The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.
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The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.
Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues (1996 edition), Univ of Michigan Pr -
The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
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The president's poking fun at himself over what goes down. I thought it was a good-natured performance. It made him look good. But he certainly doesn't disguise the record on weapons of mass destruction. And you feel like saying to people, Just get over it.
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The priest is Christ's slave, and Christ himself took the form of a slave and became obedient to death. So the priest in serving human needs lives a Godward life, possessed by God and witnessing that only when lives are utterly possessed by God do they find their true freedom.
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The prosperous man is never sure that he is loved for himself.
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