Itself Quotes
2191 quotes by 1735 authors
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Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.
— John Berger
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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.
— John Berger
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A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished' work is an attempt to…
— John Berger
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To perceive means to immobilize... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.
— Henri Bergson
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Achieving price stability is not only important in itself, it is also central to attaining the Federal Reserve's other mandate objectives of maximum sustainable employment…
— Ben Bernanke
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The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.
— Felix Adler
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A gold standard doesn't imply stability in the prices of the goods and services that people buy every day, it implies a stability in the…
— Ben Bernanke
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A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.
— Claude Bernard
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I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer.
— Leonard Bernstein
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The man for me is the cherry on the pie. But I'm the pie and my pie is good all by itself. Even if I…
— Halle Berry
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Death consists, indeed, in a repeated process of unrobing, or unsheathing. The immortal part of man shakes off from itself, one after the other, its…
— Annie Besant
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In a deep metaphysical sense, all that is conditioned is illusory. All phenomena are literally 'appearances,' the outer masks in which the One Reality shows…
— Annie Besant
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As the heat of the coal differs from the coal itself, so do memory, perception, judgment, emotion, and will, differ from the brain which is…
— Annie Besant
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Clairvoyants can see flashes of colour, constantly changing, in the aura that surrounds every person: each thought, each feeling, thus translating itself in the astral…
— Annie Besant
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Every form, not being the whole, must, of necessity, be imperfect; less than the whole, it cannot be identical with the whole, and being less…
— Annie Besant
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Strange indeed would it be if all the space around us be empty, mere waste void, and the inhabitants of Earth the only forms in…
— Annie Besant
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Theosophy has no code of morals, being itself the embodiment of the highest morality; it presents to its students the highest moral teachings of all…
— Annie Besant
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What is the constitution of the universe? The universe is the manifestation of the divine thought; the thought of God embodies itself in the thought-forms…
— Annie Besant
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Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.
— Aneurin Bevan
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The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It's the thing that people create.
— Jeff Bezos
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