Himself - Quotes
Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble? Your father is alive in you, [...] and shows himself most plainly when you have need of him.
Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.
When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.
A measure of a man is in the moment when he is confronted by himself.
No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
Man has always praised himself as an extremely rational being. He ought to stop that.
I`m angry that when people run for political office in the United States, it`s considered legitimate to grill them about their employment background, their positions on legislation, their positions on social issues, the taxes they`ve paid [...]... but it`s considered invasive and intolerant to ask if they believe in talking snakes, demonic possession, magic underwear, magic crackers that turn into the flesh of their god, an Earth that was created 6,000 years ago, or a god who put himself on Earth in human form and then sacrificed himself to himself to atone for sins that other people committed and to save humanity from the punishment he himself was planning to dole out. If someone is going to make decisions about science funding, emerging medical technology, our educational system, and so on... I think it matters if they believe any of that shit, and I bloody well want to know about it.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. All progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who `forgives` you - out of love - takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice.
Often when he looked at the multidude of wares exposed for sale, [Socrates] would say to himself, "How many things I can do without!"
What a wee little part of a person`s life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.
A man may climb Everest for himself, but at the summit he plants his country`s flag.