Concealing Quote by Mansur Al-Hallaj

“So, he who displays himself does not shine; he who asserts his own views is not distinguished; he who vaunts himself does not find…

— Lao Tzu

From my point of view, he can be called a remarkable man who stands out from those around him by the resourcefulness of his…

— G. I. Gurdjieff

He who is vain and delights in his own ability is deceived by his inferiors. When he likes to bring forth arguments and kindliness,…

— Han Fei

He is not seeking a powerful people to represent Him. Rather, He looks for all those who are weak, foolish, despised, and written off:…

— Graham Cooke

“He who is subjected to a field of visibility, and who knows it, assumes responsibility for the constraints of power; he makes them play…

— Michel Foucault

No being can be what he is unless he is putting his essence into action in his field.

— Arnold J. Toynbee

He alone who walks strict and upright, and who, in matters of opinion, will be contented that others should be as free as himself…

— Thomas Jefferson

There is a persuasion in the soul of man that he is here for cause, that he was put down in this place by…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

His will cannot be neutral or 'free' to act contrary to his nature.

— Charles Spurgeon

Scarce any man becomes eminently disagreeable but by a departure from his real character, and an attempt at something for which nature or education…

— Samuel Johnson

He that is pushing his predecessors into the gulf of obscurity, cannot but sometimes suspect, that he must himself sink in like manner, and,…

— Samuel Johnson

Whatever may be his true and final destination, there is a spirit within him at enmity with nothingness and dissolution. This is the character…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley