Quotes 521 till 540 of 773.
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The brain's calculations do not require our conscious effort, only our attention and our openness to let the information through. Although the brain absorbs universes of information, little is admitted into normal consciousness.
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The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.
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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.
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The cliche of what a rock star is - there's something elitist about it. I never related to that. I'm an entertainer. I think of it as, you're performing for people. It's not a self-glorification thing.
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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.
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The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.
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The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.
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The courage to cooperate or initiate are based entirely on the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth as the divine mind within you tells you the truth is. It really does require a courage and a self-disciplining to go along with that truth.
Only Integrity is Going to Count (1983)Richard Buckminster Fuller
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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The difference between a stable society and an unstable one is that the restraints in an unstable one are external. In a stable society government ultimately becomes unnecessary; the restraints on people's actions are internal, they're self-disciplined...
Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976) -
The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.
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The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.
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The easiest person to deceive is one's own self.
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The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.
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The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen.
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The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.
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The European style of living is seductive: fewer hours worked, more hours at the cafe, less concern over self-betterment. But that style of living does not produce a purposeful life.
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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.
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The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.
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