#itself

The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be. ↗

— George Santayana

#contradiction #every #itself #mockery #moment

Impatience translates itself into a desire to have something immediate done about it all, and, as is generally the case with impatience, resolves itself in the easiest way that lies ready to hand. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#case #desire #done #easiest #easiest way

The modern mind tends to be more and more critical and analytical in spirit, hence it must devise for itself an engine of expression which is logically defensible at every point and which tends to correspond to the rigorous spirit of modern science. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#correspond #critical #devise #engine #every

I think sometimes what happens is that all of this feeling out of control manifests itself in trying to control your body; whether it's an eating disorder or talking about getting your nose fixed, as if that's going to be the solution to all the pressure. ↗

— Susan Sarandon

#body #control #disorder #eating #feeling

Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium. ↗

— Nathalie Sarraute

#defends #equilibrium #itself #morbid #organism

The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul. ↗

— George Sand

#beauty #body #eye #eyes #itself

Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#intellect #into #itself #obstinacy #place

Democracy is a political method, that is to say, a certain type of institutional arrangement for arriving at political - legislative and administrative - decisions and hence incapable of being an end in itself. ↗

— Joseph A. Schumpeter

#arrangement #arriving #being #certain #decisions

In and of itself, keeping the country safe for business is not a bad thing. ↗

— Peter Schuyler

#bad thing #business #country #itself #keeping

More recently, as faith gave way to materialism, anti-Semitism assumed a secular mode, harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the Left and the Right. ↗

— Jack Schwartz

#assumed #both #dominant #faith #gave