#himself

He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self-love seems so often unrequited. ↗

— Anthony Powell

#faithful #fell #first #himself #love

In Scouting, a boy is encouraged to educate himself instead of being instructed. ↗

— Robert Powell

#boy #educate #encouraged #himself #instead

He suddenly found himself on the precipice of utility. ↗

— J. F. Powers

#himself #precipice #suddenly #utility

Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself. ↗

— Pythagoras

#cannot #concern #control #depression #drive

An enthusiast broods over the oppression of a people till he fancies himself commissioned by Heaven to liberate them. He ventures the attempt, which ends in little else than his own execution. ↗

— George Haven Putnam

#commissioned #else #ends #enthusiast #execution

A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything. ↗

— Ramakrishna

#anything #embodied #even #free #god

The lover is a monotheist who knows that other people worship different gods but cannot himself imagine that there could be other gods. ↗

— Theodor Reik

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The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery. ↗

— Thorstein Veblen

#dog #favor #himself #mastery #our

I'd rather call myself a mischief-maker, an imp, rather than a satirist. Satirist sounds so self important. Plus no one is calling himself an imp right now. It makes me feel special. ↗

— Mo Rocca

#calling #feel #himself #i #important

Man is firmly convinced that he is awake; in reality he is caught in a net of sleep and dreams which he has unconsciously woven himself. ↗

— Gustave Meyrink

#caught #convinced #dreams #firmly #himself