[R]eductionism' is one of those things, like sin, that is only mentioned by people who are against it. To call oneself a… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If, as Marshall McLuhan once taught us, the medium is the message, then Derfner's medium-this lovely, discursive amalgamation of wit and smarts-is… — Philip Gambone Copy Share Image
Comparing oneself to others in such terms as "Just as I am so are they, just as they are so am I,"… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
What an absurdity to go and bury oneself in South America, where they are always having revolutions. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear. Just as vulgarity is simply the conduct of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Retracing the various episodes of one's life, one is disconcerted to discover that one was not as noble as one thought oneself… — Phyllis Bentley Copy Share Image
For the possibilities of being different from what one is are infinite. Once one has negated oneself, however, there are no longer… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Take what you can yourself, and don't let others get you into their hands; to belong to oneself, that is the whole… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
The true courage of civilized nations is readiness for sacrifice in the service of the state, so that the individual counts as… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Change begins with understanding and understanding begins by identifying oneself with another person: in a word, empathy. The arts enable us to… — Richard Eyre Copy Share Image
To live in any true sense of the word is to reject others; to accept them, one must be able to renounce,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One has to devote oneself to a particular pursuit. To be successful at anything, you have to make a total commitment to… — Donald Johanson Copy Share Image
One must find out for oneself, and make sure beyond doubt, 'who' one is, 'what' one is, 'why' one is... Being thus… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
It is as proper to have pride in oneself as it ridiculous to show it to others. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I ought to respect myself for my friends' sake, and my children's. It is time, at fifty-six, to begin, at least, to… — John Constable Copy Share Image
Photography means releasing oneself from one type of gravity and placing oneself in a space where a different force is trying to… — Shomei Tomatsu Copy Share Image
When one is not understood one should as a rule lower one's voice, because when one really speaks loudly enough and is… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity. — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
When one devotes oneself to meditation, mental burdens, unnecessary worries, and wandering thoughts drop off one by one; life seems to run… — Nyogen Senzaki Copy Share Image
To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has… — Jose Marti Copy Share Image
It is truly strange how long it takes to get to know oneself. I am now sixty two years old, yet just… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
There was no solution, save that universal solution which life gives to all questions, even the most complex and insolvable: One must… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The creation of freedom for oneself and a sacred "No" even to duty -- for that, my brothers, the lion is needed. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image