Make Oneself Quotes
23 quotes by 22 authors
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To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Fashion condemns us to many follies, the greatest is to make oneself its slave.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful.
— Oscar Wilde
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To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking - and since it cannot, in order to become its echo I…
— Maurice Blanchot
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The sort of dependence that results from exchange, i.e., from commercial transactions, is a reciprocal dependence. We cannot be dependent upon a foreigner without his…
— Frederic Bastiat
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Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God.
— Cyril Cusack
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Pierre Bordieu was right: "The all powerful is he who does not wait but makes others wait. Absolute power is the power to make oneself…
— Michael Jackson
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Have you not often met poor old women who are most faithful to the pious recitation of the Rosary? You also must do all that…
— Columba Marmion
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Just as in habiliments it is a sign of weakness to wish to make oneself noticeable by some peculiar and unaccustomed fashion, so, in language,…
— Michel de Montaigne
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Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared — this must some day become the highest maxim…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking.
— Arnold Bennett
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One must not imitate the sun, one must make oneself into a sun.
— Raoul Dufy
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One must not make oneself cheap here - that is a cardinal point - or else one is done. Whoever is most impertinent has the…
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.
— Pablo Picasso
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Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.
— Lionel Trilling
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As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself more numb. To…
— Susan Sontag
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perhaps, if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque.
— Salman Rushdie
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In a world full of danger, to be a potentially seeable object is to be constantly exposed to danger. Self-consciousness, then, may be the apprehensive…
— R. D. Laing
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To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less...selfish.
— Alan Bennett
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It is one of the triumphs of human wit ... to conquer by humility and submissiveness ... to make oneself small in order to appear…
— Alfred Adler
Who Wrote These Make Oneself Quotes
22 authors contributed a total of 23 Make Oneself Quotes as follows: