Itself Quotes
2191 quotes by 1735 authors
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There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.
— Hannah Arendt
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Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.
— Hannah Arendt
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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me…
— Hannah Arendt
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Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
— Aristotle
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A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a…
— Aristotle
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When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one…
— Isaac Asimov
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We keep putting on programmes about famine in Ethiopia; that's what's happening. Too many people there. They can't support themselves - and it's not an…
— David Attenborough
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Social media is called social media for a reason. It lends itself to sharing rather than horn-tooting.
— Margaret Atwood
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Please don't make the mistake of thinking that 'Oryx and Crake' is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and a tool. Like all ways…
— Margaret Atwood
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You could tell 'The Handmaid's Tale' from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but power tends to…
— Margaret Atwood
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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was…
— Saint Augustine
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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made…
— Marcus Aurelius
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India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a…
— Sri Aurobindo
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A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds.
— Teresa of Avila
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Certainly the format of ghostbusting lends itself to a videogame beautifully.
— Dan Aykroyd
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A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice.
— Irving Babbitt
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The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism.
— Irving Babbitt
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It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will…
— Johann Sebastian Bach
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Chile has done a lot to rid itself of poverty, especially extreme poverty, since the return to democracy. But we still have a ways to…
— Michelle Bachelet
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