"The self as the essence of individuality is unitemporal and unique; as an archetypal symbol it is a God-image and therefore universal and eternal."
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"Science is not perfect. It's often misused; it's only a tool, but it's the best tool we have. Self-correcting , ever changing, applicable to everything: with this tool, we vanquish the impossible."
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"Human beings seem to be far more autonomous and self-governed than modern psychological theory allows for."
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"My good friends, while I do most earnestly recommend you to take care of your health and safety, as things most precious to us, I would not have that care degenerate into an effeminate and over-curious attention, which is always disgraceful to a man's self, and often troublesome to others."
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"The experiencing self lives its life continuously. It has moments of experience, one after the other."
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"Survival of the fittest can take us only so far; competition and aggression have brought us to the brink of self-destruction. What is needed now is survival of the wisest. You can participate in this shift by expanding your own awareness."
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"Self-justification and judging others go together, as justification by grace and serving others go together."
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"Of course the self-serving bias is something you want to get out of yourself. Thinking that what's good for you is good for the wider civilization and rationalizing all these ridiculous conclusions based on this subconscious tendency to serve one's self is a terribly inaccurate way to think."
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"The myth of the self-made man, has to be profoundly hypocritical: it is the self-serving demonstration that a lie is the truth"
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"Self-pity is a dead-end road. You make the choice to drive down it. It's up to you to decide to stay parked there or to turn around and drive out."
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"The more living patterns there are in a place - a room, a building, or a town - the more it comes to life as an entirety, the more it glows, the more it has that self-maintaining fire which is the quality without a name."
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"In old days men studied for the sake of self-improvement; nowadays men study in order to impress other people."
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"We have to be self-critical even in context that we might be critical of, even as we - our pieces appear in it."
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"A lot of people say there is no happiness in this life and certainly there's no permanent happiness. But self-sufficiency creates happiness."
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"Self-responsibility is the core quality of the fully mature, fully functioning, self-actualizing individual."
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"Great art is more than a transient refreshment. It is something which adds to the permanent richness of the soul's self-attainment. It justifies itself both by its immediate enjoyment, and also by its discipline of the inmost being. Its discipline is not distinct from enjoyment but by reason of it. It transforms the soul into the permanent realization of values extending beyond its former self."
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"The first thing Islam does is to destroy the self image of the believers. It convinces them that without Islam they are worthless creatures only fit for hellfire. It tells them that their culture is jahelyyah (ignorance) and their ancestral religion was taaghoti (satanic). They are made to despise their identity and selfhood and seek their glory in their submission to Islam and slavery to its deity who was Muhammad's own alter ego."
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"The authentic self is the best part of a human being. It's the part of you that already cares, that is already passionate about evolution. When your authentic self miraculously awakens and becomes stronger than your ego, then you will truly begin to make a difference in this world. You will literally enter into a partnership with the creative principle."
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"A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence...makes us more fully conscious of our own existence."
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"Every truth passes through 3 stages before it is recognized 1)ridicule 2) opposition 3) accepted as self-evident."
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