Quotes with self-contradictory

Quotes 321 till 340 of 687.

  • Eric Hoffer Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Charles Baudelaire Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Marcus Aurelius Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Millicent Fenwick Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Never to talk to ones self is a form of hypocrisy.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Theodore Parker Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.
    Theodore Parker
    American minister (1810 - 1860)
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  • Sir Max Beerbohm No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
    Sir Max Beerbohm
    British Actor (1872 - 1956)
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  • C. Day Lewis No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?
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  • A. Lawrence Lowell No laws, however liberal, will release us from our self-imposed taxes.
    A. Lawrence Lowell
    American educator and legal scholar (1856 - 1943)
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  • John S. Bonnell No man or woman has achieved an effective personality who is not self-disciplined. Such discipline must not be an end in itself, but must be directed to the development of resolute Christian character.
    John S. Bonnell
    American pastor
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  • George Bernard Shaw No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Peace Pilgrim No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.
    Peace Pilgrim
    American activist, mystic and pacifist
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  • Robert Wilson No one is more interesting to anybody than is that mysterious character we all call me, which is why self-liberation, self-actualization, self-transcendence, etc., are the most exciting games in town.
    Robert Wilson
    American theater stage director and playwright (1941 - )
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  • Susan B. Anthony No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.
    Susan B. Anthony
    American women's rights activist (1820 - 1906)
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  • Brene Brown Normally, when someone we love is turning away from a struggle, we self-protect by also turning away. That's definitely my first response. I think change is more likely to happen if both partners have common language and a shared lens to see problems.
    Brene Brown
    American professor, lecturer, author (1965 - )
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  • Demosthenes Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.
    Demosthenes
    Greek statesman and orator (382 - 322)
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  • Walter Benjamin Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • John Milton Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • François Fénelon Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own.
    François Fénelon
    French writer and archbishop (1651 - 1715)
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