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Joseph Priestley has 23 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others.
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The greater is the circle of light, the greater is the boundary of the darkness by which it is confined. But, notwithstanding…
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It pleased God to make one nation the medium of all His communications with mankind: This the nation of the Jews has…
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But it is not given to every electrician to die in so glorious a manner as the justly envied Richmann.
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It is no use speaking in soft, gentle tones if everyone else is shouting.
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Could we have entered into the mind of Sir Isaac Newton, and have traced all the steps by which he produced his…
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The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.
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This is unfortunately a world in which things find it difficult, frequently impossible, to live up to their names.
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To me there is in happiness an element of self-forgetfulness. You lose yourself in something outside yourself when you are happy; just…
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Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as…
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What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.
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In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before,…
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Remorse presupposes enough self-forgetfulness to feel the pain ofothers.
— Helen Prejean
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True humility is more like self-forgetfulness than false modesty.
— C.S. Lewis
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By means of Invocation, the being awakens, and awakening becomes fullness. By means of balancing, fullness becomes internal wholeness. By virtue of…
— David Truman
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The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language…
— Hans-Georg Gadamer
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To me there is in happiness an element of self-forgetfulness. You lose yourself in something outside yourself when you are happy; just…
— Joseph Priestley
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Humility is not an exaggeratedly low opinion of yourself. Humility is self-forgetfulness.
— Peter Kreeft
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But what after all, behind appearance, is the seeming mystery? We can see that it is the Consciousness which had lost itself,…
— Sri Aurobindo
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Happiness lies in a large measure of self-forgetfulness, either in work . . . or in the love of others. ♥
— Everett Ruess
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Composing gives me great pleasure... there is nothing that surpasses the joy of creation, if only because through it one wins hours…
— Clara Schumann
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Charm is a cunning self-forgetfulness.
— Christina Stead
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At the bottom of the modern man there is always a great thirst for self-forgetfulness, self-distraction . . . and therefore he…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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the self expands through acts of self forgetfulness.
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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