#itself

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

So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him. ↗

— Will Durant

#commanding-nature #eternal-recurrence #history #history-repeating-itself #science

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

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue. ↗

— Hosea Ballou

#ambition #itself #often #parent #though

I think they say that when you're breast feeding, you know, your weight kind of slims down. It's a little easier. It's like a workout within itself. It's very tiring actually and you find yourself snacking more often. ↗

— Christina Aguilera

#down #easier #feeding #find #i

For me, you've got to play football first. We're not trying to be accountants. The money takes care of itself. That's kind of how I think anyway. ↗

— Shaun Alexander

#anyway #care #first #football #got

There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#itself #thinking #thoughts

To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#ambitious #authority #enough #free #itself

We insist that the international community cannot depend on any country with weapons of mass destruction which has relations with terrorists, and which allows itself the luxury of not respecting the law and of defying the international community. ↗

— Jose Maria Aznar

#any #cannot #community #country #defying

Whenever the work is itself light, it becomes necessary, in order to economize time, to increase the velocity. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#economize #increase #itself #light #necessary