Itself - Quotes
Sometimes love gets in the way of itself - you know, love interrupts itself. We want things so much that we sabotage them.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Lies beget other lies. Unlike statements of fact, which require no further work on our part, lies must be continually protected from collisions with reality. When you tell the truth, you have nothing to keep track of. The world itself becomes your memory, and if questions arise, you can always point others back to it.
I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy. That is a miracle in itself.
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.
I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on water.
The Earth itself must pass away,
must like a bubble effervesce
and burst to empty nothingness!
[You] could not help being amused every time another little human believed itself the center of its world, as each of us does.
Each religion, so dear to those whose life it sanctifies, and fulfilling so necessary a function in the society that has adopted it, necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself.
Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.
Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.