#himself

The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie. ↗

— Louise Bogan

#bourgeoisie #class #exist #fine #flower

All human language draws its nature and value from the fact that it both comes from the Word of God and is chosen by God to manifest himself. But this relationship is secret and incomprehensible, beyond the bounds of reason and analysis. ↗

— Jacques Ellul

#beyond #both #bounds #chosen #comes

He who knows himself best esteems himself least. ↗

— H. G. Bohn

#himself #knows #least #who

The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass. ↗

— Nicolas Boileau

#also #break #fools #full #himself

The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#himself #his #must #painter #paintings

General Reynolds immediately found himself engaged with a force which greatly outnumbered his own, and had scarcely made his dispositions for the action when he fell, mortally wounded, at the head of his advance. ↗

— Edward Everett

#advance #dispositions #engaged #fell #force

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people. ↗

— Mark Twain

#against #being #cannot #chances #deceive

A man's most glorious actions will at last be found to be but glorious sins, if he hath made himself, and not the glory of God, the end of those actions. ↗

— Thomas Brooks

#end #found #glorious #glory #god

Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a designer but that's because the designer himself, the engineer, is explained by natural selection. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#because #car #design #designer #engineer

It's possible and available to any artist to be himself or herself on their own terms, to be accepted and embraced by black people. You don't have to be a thug to get love from black people. ↗

— Mos Def

#any #artist #available #black #embraced