#oneself

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us. ↗

— Paul Valery

#capital #discovery #folly #inborn #metaphor

Faith in oneself is the best and safest course. ↗

— Michelangelo

#best #course #oneself #safest #safest course

Carrying out the thing, getting it to the point when one might say: There, now it is good - that point is hard to reach. Often, one sets very high goals for oneself. Perhaps too high. ↗

— Arne Jacobsen

#getting #goals #good #hard #high

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle. ↗

— Helen Keller

#bicycle #brain #effort #gift #greatest

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#despairing #evil #oneself #refusal #root

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#footing #lose #momentarily #oneself

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#always #completely #fruitful #fruitless #had

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#cooperation #ethics #oneself #origin #others

Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary. ↗

— Francoise Sagan

#certain #characters #compare #feels #finding

If one is reported as having set up camp overseas, it's as if one has made oneself unavailable. ↗

— Julian Sands

#having #made #oneself #overseas #reported