1327 Himself Quotes for You to Enjoy

When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package. John Ruskin

Man Wrapped Pretty Small He Himself Makes Up Package

The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. John Stuart Mill

Politics Fight Better Safety Made Men Free Miserable Important Own Nothing Unless Willing No Chance More He Himself His Than Person Personal Being Which Who Creature Chance Kept

One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good - he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad - he and the world is destroyed. Maimonides

Good Balance Good And Evil World Evil Saved Destroyed Scale Bad See He Equal Himself Does Should Deed Good Deed

It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills. Thomas Aquinas

Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. Ambrose Bierce

Pleasure Weak Temptation Himself Denying Yields Person Who

He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master. Ben Jonson

Fool Master Only He Himself Taught

The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world. Charles Caleb Colton

Wise Man Wise Man Fool World Mistakes Himself Known

A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself. Chinua Achebe

Man Trouble Others Also Himself Makes Making Who

I believe that the future of humanity is in the progress of reason through science. I believe that the pursuit of truth, through science, is the divine ideal which man should propose to himself. Emile Zola

Truth Future Man Science Humanity Progress Believe Through Pursuit Divine Propose Ideal Himself Which Should Reason

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises. Friedrich Nietzsche

Despises Respects Himself Nonetheless Who Whoever

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind. Fyodor Dostoevsky

Man Fear Mind Every Tell Himself His Decent Afraid Decent Man Stored Which Such Things Even Away Things Number

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy. George Jean Nathan

Love Man Woman Finds Tenderly He True Feel Himself His May Electrified Company Reserves Whose Species Deepest

As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city. Gore Vidal

Day Police Living State Liberties One Day City Find Civil Civil Liberties Police State Himself Least Any May Vigilant Who

There are always signs that a reign is ending, and they are usually spotted not in the king himself but in his court. In the inner circle, latent jealousies between advisers spill into open conflict, as they angrily debate who is to blame for the calamity, chewing over each other's past errors and pointing the finger at old and nascent enemies. Hanna Rosin

Blame Conflict Debate Ending Enemies Old Circle Signs King Past Other Latent Spill Finger Pointing Open Between Calamity Over Himself Adviser Court Always Nascent His Chewing Errors Who Each Reign Inner

Jesus didn't say, 'Blessed are those who care for the poor.' He said, 'Blessed are we where we are poor, where we are broken.' It is there that God loves us deeply and pulls us into deeper communion with himself. Henri Nouwen

God Broken Care Blessed Say Those He Himself Said Where Loves Poor Us Communion Who Deeper Deeply Jesus

Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort. Jean Cocteau

Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself. John Milton

Books Shallow Himself

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Man Action Risk He Himself Which Urges Who Wary

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