#itself

A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself. ↗

— Federico Fellini

#created #ever #invented #itself #never

No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite. ↗

— Federico Fellini

#although #best #could #critic #film

The Bolsheviks started not just on the killing of private property; they were trying to abolish money itself. ↗

— Anatoly Chubais

#bolsheviks #itself #just #killing #money

God ceases to be God only for those who can admit the possibility of His non-existence, and that conception is in itself the most severe punishment they can suffer. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#ceases #conception #god #his #itself

Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself. ↗

— Dick Cavett

#dirty #feeds #four-letter #itself #mind

My own position is, that it is largely up to the work itself to suggest the nature of these referential points without dimensions in and through the processes by which the distance between them is maintained. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#dimensions #distance #itself #largely #maintained

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened. ↗

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#asking #bad #different #final #final analysis

By philosophy the mind of man comes to itself, and from henceforth rests on itself without foreign aid, and is completely master of itself, as the dancer of his feet, or the boxer of his hands. ↗

— Johann Gottlieb Fichte

#boxer #comes #completely #dancer #feet

It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#detective #detective story #itself #new #new york

Well in the end the world can crank itself up to sanctions, as it has with Zimbabwe, another sad case. ↗

— Helen Clark

#case #crank #end #in the end #itself