Quotes by Self There is, indeed, a most dangerous passage in the history of a democratic people. When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more rapidly than their education and their experience of free institutions, the time will come when men are carried away and lose all self-restraint at the sight of new possessions they are about to obtain. In their intense and exclusive anxiety to make a fortune they lose sight of the close connection that exists between the private fortune of each and the prosperity of all. Alexis de Tocqueville self sight men When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more rapidly than their education . . . the time will come when men are carried away and lose all self-restraint . . . . It is not necessary to do violence to such a people in order to strip them of the rights they enjoy; they themselves willingly loosen their hold. . . . they neglect their chief business which is to remain their own masters. Alexis de Tocqueville self rights men I shall not fear to say that the doctrine of self-interest rightly understood seems to me of all the philosophic theories the most appropriate to the needs of men in our time, and that I see in it the most powerful guarantee against themselves that remains to them. The minds of the moralists of our day ought to turn, therefore, principally toward it. Even should they judge it imperfect, they would still have to adopt it as necessary. Alexis de Tocqueville powerful self men I see no clear reason why the doctrine of self-interest properly understood should turn men away from religious beliefs. Alexis de Tocqueville religious self men He who seeks freedom for anything but freedom's self is made to be a slave. Alexis de Tocqueville slave self made Someone who thinks well of himself is said to have a healthy self-concept and is envied. Someone who thinks well of his country is called a patriot and is applauded. But someone who thinks well of his species is regarded as hopelessly naïve and is dismissed. Alfie Kohn self country thinking We are not determined by our experiences, but are self-determined by the meaning we give to them; and when we take particular experiences as the basis for our future life, we are almost certain to be misguided to some degree. Meanings are not determined by situations. We determine ourselves by the meanings we ascribe to situations. Alfred Adler degrees self giving Overcoming difficulties leads to courage, self-respect, and knowing yourself. Alfred Adler knowing self overcoming To injure another person through atonement is one of the most subtle devices of the neurotic, as when, for example, he indulges in self-accusations. Alfred Adler indulge-in example self The self-bound individual always forgets that his self would be safeguarded better and automatically the more he prepares himself for the welfare of mankind, and that in this respect no limits are set for him. Alfred Adler limits self would-be It seems to us that in intelligence there is a fundamental faculty, the alteration or the lack of which, is of the utmost importance for practical life. This faculty is judgment, otherwise called good sense, practical sense, initiative, the faculty of adapting one's self to circumstances. A person may be a moron or an imbecile if he is lacking in judgment; but with good judgment he can never be either. Indeed the rest of the intellectual faculties seem of little importance in comparison with judgment. Alfred Binet intellectual self fundamentals I could not clearly distinguish what was passing in my head; it seemed to me that I was under the influence of a horrible dream and that I had but to awake to find myself cured; at times it seemed that my entire life had been a dream, ridiculous and childish, the falseness of which had just been disclosed. Alfred de Musset ridiculous self dream Space is still filled with the noise of destruction and annihilation, the shouts of self-assurance and arrogance, the weeping of despair and helplessness. But round about the horizon the eternal realities stand silent in their age-old longing. There shines on them already the first mild light of the radiant fulfillment to come. From afar sound the first notes as of pipes and voices, not yet discernable as a song or melody. It is all far off still, and only just announced and foretold. But it is happening, today. Alfred Delp self song reality So true is it that all sin is ultimately against the Lord; so bitter is the root of self. Alfred Edersheim bitter self roots Self-plagiarism is style. Alfred Hitchcock movie self inspiring To regard human beings as tools - as instruments - for the use of other human beings is not only unscientific but it is repugnant, stupid and short sighted. Tools are made by man but have not the autonomy of their maker - they have not man's time-binding capacity for initiation, for self-direction, and self-improvement. Alfred Korzybski stupid self men I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul Alfred Lord Tennyson mistress soul self I hold it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things. Alfred Lord Tennyson self may men Thoroughly to believe in one's own self, so one's self were thorough, were to do great things. Alfred Lord Tennyson thorough self believe We are self-uncertain creatures, and we may Yea, even when we know not, mix our spites And private hates with our defence of Heaven. Alfred Lord Tennyson hate self heaven «1920212223242526272829»
