"If one's fated to be born in Caesar's……" — Joseph Brodsky

More Aloof Quotes

This quote is filed under Aloof Quotes, one of 74 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as… — Theodor Adorno
• There is no more certain sign of a narrow mind, of stupidity, and of arrogance, than to stand aloof from… — Walter Savage Landor
• Meditation is not contemplation because it is not thinking at all - consistent, inconsistent, crazy, sane. It is not thinking… — Rajneesh
• Everything is deception: seeking the minimum of illusion, keeping within the ordinary limitations, seeking the maximum. In the first case… — Franz Kafka
• There is only one law of Nature-the second law of thermodynamics-which recognises a distinction between past and future more profound… — Arthur Eddington
• Meditation simply means a discipline that makes you capable of being aloof and detached from your mind. So even if… — Rajneesh
• Don't choose. If you choose, you will be in the quagmire. Don't choose! A choiceless awareness is the goal. Just… — Rajneesh
• In these divine pleasures permitted to me of walks in the June night under moon and stars, I can put… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• To know that you are neither the body nor mind, watch yourself steadily and live unaffected by your body and… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
• I've been accused of being aloof. I'm not. I'm just wary. — Paul Newman
• But, you may ask, if the two departments [i.e., federal and state] should claim each the same subject of power,… — Thomas Jefferson
• There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. ... It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy.… — J D Salinger

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