Quotes with self-deceit

Quotes 141 till 160 of 689.

  • Camille Paglia Every male copulating with a woman returns to his origins in the womb. Goethe postponed intercourse until he was forty. This must be related to his self-imposed distance from his forceful mother. To refuse phallic penetration is to refuse surrender to the female matrix.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Eric Hoffer Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Ruth Hubbard Every theory is a self-fulfilling prophecy that orders experience into the framework it provides.
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  • Ben Harper Every time feels like my first time. And I just find that the process of it feeds into one's own self-obsession.
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    Ben Harper
    American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1969 - )
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • George Orwell Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Leo Rosten Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.
    Leo Rosten
    Polish-American scientist (1908 - 1997)
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  • Joseph Brodsky Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite soon, a man discovers that his pen accomplishes a lot more than his soul.
    Joseph Brodsky
    Russian-born American Poet, Critic (1940 - 1996)
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  • Bonnie Bassler Everybody, as soon as they do a good experiment, their first thought in this lab is, 'That can't be right. I must have screwed it up. What did I do wrong?' And that's the best kind of scientist because they're filled with this self-doubt. And if I'm going to be honest, that's who I am. And it's what drives me.
    Bonnie Bassler
    American molecular biologist
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  • Barry Bonds Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
    Barry Bonds
    American professional baseball player (1964 - )
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  • Bernard Bailyn Everyone knew that democracy-direct rule by all the people-required such spartan, self-denying virtue on the part of all the people that it was likely to survive only where poverty made upright behavior necessary for the perpetuation of the race.
    The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. III, POWER AND LIBERTY A THEORY OF POLITICS, p
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • Bhumibol Adulyadej Everyone must correct his own self; this is something more difficult to cope with, but it is not impossible.
    Bhumibol Adulyadej
    Thai King (1927 - 2016)
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  • Beeban Kidron Everything a teenager does, says or looks at, however transitory, contributes to an aggregated virtual self that might one day have consequences for its real-life counterpart. How many of us would keep all our relationships and reputations intact if every transgression, mistake or youthful folly was held in public view?
    Beeban Kidron
    British filmmaker (1961 - )
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  • Philip Roth Everything dictated silence and self-control but I couldn't restrain myself and spoke my mind.
    Operation Shylock: A Confession (1993)
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • René Descartes Everything is self-evident.
    René Descartes
    French philosopher, scientist (1596 - 1650)
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  • Augustus William Hare Excessive indulgence to others, especially to children is in fact only self-indulgence under an alias.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Arnold Bennett Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others.
    Arnold Bennett
    British novelist (1867 - 1931)
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  • Susie Orbach Fat is a way of saying ''no'' to powerlessness and self-denial.
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  • Bernie S. Siegel Feelings aroused by the touch of someone's hand, the sound of music, the smell of a flower, a beautiful sunset, a work of art, love, laughter, hope and faith - all work on both the unconscious and the conscious aspects of the self, and they have physiological consequences as well.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Baltasar Gracian Few are the friends of a man's self, most those of his circumstances.
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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