#itself

One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers. ↗

— Wilfrid Sheed

#human #human race #itself #low #much

Information about the package is as important as the package itself. ↗

— Frederick W. Smith

#important #information #itself #package

Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure. ↗

— Simone Weil

#itself #life #mutilate #need #order

It was more freeing, mainly because he's so free anyway. He just is in his performance. So to mimic someone doing a free performance, well, that's pretty freeing within itself. ↗

— Michael Welch

#because #doing #free #freeing #his

The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being. ↗

— Jane Wyman

#being #brotherhood #every #every time #human

... the vintage of history is forever repeating ~ same old vines, same old wines! ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#goethe #history #history-of-mankind #history-repeating-itself #human-nature

There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#assert #contained #except #images #itself

Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life. ↗

— Lascelles Abercrombie

#attitude #cannot #epic #epic poetry #exhibits

That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been. ↗

— Lascelles Abercrombie

#broadly #epic #epic poetry #independently #invented

One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of the union. ↗

— Mortimer Adler

#creation #image #itself #procreation #reproduction