Itself Quotes

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I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman. — Peter Max
Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory. — William Wordsworth
The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it. — Felix Frankfurter
The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself. — Andrew Wiles
For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics? — Richard Courant
Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living. — Thomas Browne
It's very easy to say that something is a shadow of itself, and it may be true in some senses. — Sydney Schanberg
The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind. — George Mason
It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God. — Mary Daly
The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him. — Claude Levi-Strauss
We're not aware of fame itself, we're not that kind of band. — Ed O'Brien
Success comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is not spared by this law. — Pierre de Coubertin
Our American heritage is greater than any one of us. It can express itself in very homely truths; in the end it can lift up… — Bruce Catton
The faith must express itself in charity and in solidarity, which is the civil form of charity. — Claudio Hummes
Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists. — Corliss Lamont
It is essential for genetic material to be able to make exact copies of itself; otherwise growth would produce disorder, life could not originate, and… — Maurice Wilkins
Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company. — Seneca the Younger
In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically. — Henri Bergson
According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises… — Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

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