#itself

Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason. ↗

— Albert Pike

#comparison #discovery #divine #doubt #doubting

I think that NATO is itself a war criminal. ↗

— Harold Pinter

#i #i think #itself #nato #think

When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself. ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#culture #goes #itself #norms #outside

When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself. ↗

— Plato

#mind #talking #thinking

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend. ↗

— Plautus

#better #friend #heaven #itself #nothing

In my case, the body of work stands for itself... I think my work has been representative of me as a man. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#body #case #i #i think #itself

In general, science journalism concerns itself with what has been published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals - Nature, Cell, The New England Journal of Medicine - which set the agenda. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#been #cell #concerns #england #general

And when they do spin out of control there are important ramifications that affect America, not just its direct national interest but its broader interests as a nation which has thought of itself as a beacon to other nations, of freedom, liberty, democracy, whatever. ↗

— John Pomfret

#america #beacon #broader #control #democracy

He who has seen everything empty itself is close to knowing what everything is filled with. ↗

— Antonio Porchia

#empty #everything #filled #itself #knowing

Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning. ↗

— Katherine Anne Porter

#artist #chaos #confusion #disparate #frame