Character Quote by Richard M. Weaver Download Open image “Where character forbids self-indulgence, transcendence still hovers around.” — Richard M. Weaver ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Indulgence Self Self indulgence Stills Transcendence
There is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Remember that there is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
There is a human striving for self-transcendence. It's part of what makes us human. With all of our flaws we want to go a… — George Leonard Copy Share Image
Excessive indulgence to others, especially to children is in fact only self-indulgence under an alias. — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
“Unless people have a vision of something beyond the bounds of their own natures, they cannot transcend their self-interest.” — Patrick M. Garry Copy Share Image
Each new day beckons you to walk on the road of self-transcendence. We transcend ourselves, we do not compete with others. We compete only… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
“Stepping out of one’s world or out of one’s habitual self is a transcendental experience. [...] If we seek transcendence, we may have many… — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
The thirst after fame is greater than that after virtue; for who embraces virtue if you take away its rewards? — Juvenal Copy Share Image
Drill in exact translation is an excellent way of disposing the mind against that looseness and exaggeration with which the sensationalists have corrupted our… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Piety is a discipline of the will through respect. It admits the right to exist of things larger than the ego, of things different… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
The most important thing about the gentleman was that he was an idealist. ... He was bred up to a code of self-restraint which… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
The member of a culture ... purposely avoids the relationship of intimacy; he wants the object somehow depicted and fictionalized. ... He is embarrassed… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
“Man is constantly being assured today that he has more power than ever before in history, but his daily experience is one of powerlessness.” — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Man is constantly being assured that he has more power than ever before in history, but his daily experience is one of powerlessness. ...… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
The remark has been made that in the Civil War the North reaped the victory and the South the glory. — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
No one can take culture seriously if he believes that it is only the uppermost of several layers of epiphenomena resting on a primary… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
“It will be found that every attack upon religion, or upon characteristic ideas inherited from religion, when its assumptions are laid bare, turns out… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Progress never defines its ultimate objective but thrusts its victims at once into an infinite series,' Mr. [John Crowe] Ransom said' 'Industrialism,' he declared,… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Until the world perceives that "good" cannot be applied to a thing because it is our own, and "bad" because it is another's, there… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Any utterance is a major assumption of responsibility, and the assumption that one can avoid that responsibility by doing something to language itself is… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
When you're on a daytime drama you get one page, you better damn well know your character. You better know what she would do… — David Hudgins Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Your looks don't make you pretty, it's the person inside who makes you pretty! — Aaron Chan Copy Share Image
I'm not a huge social media kind of guy, so I don't really know, I don't really ever get... at least in real life,… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
