#itself

An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

#existence #itself #life #negation #than

The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

#characteristic #commonplace #hour #impose #itself

Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists. ↗

— Corliss Lamont

#cannot #disregarded #does #intuition #itself

Humanity abhors, above all things, a vacuum in itself, and your class will be cut off from humanity as the surgeon cuts the cancer and alien growth from the body. ↗

— James Larkin

#above #alien #all things #body #cancer

Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#common #common language #converse #equates #finds

Every generation renews itself in its own way; there's always a reaction against whatever is standard. ↗

— Sol LeWitt

#always #every #generation #itself #own

Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult. ↗

— Stephen Leacock

#down #ideas #itself #jot #just

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it. ↗

— John Lennon

#after #cupboard #get #gift #going

If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#find #itself #least #little #little bit

One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#connects #free #friction #gliding #habit