#ourselve

We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs. ↗

— Kenneth Clark

#cynicism #destroy #disillusion #effectively #just

Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves. ↗

— Jeremy Collier

#books #burden #keep #our #ourselves

Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves. ↗

— William Davenant

#glass #know #ourselves #perfect #see

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there. ↗

— Meister Eckhart

#being #cover #covering #depths #forty

The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#feel #insecurity #must #ourselves #secure

We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves. ↗

— Paul Gauguin

#know #never #ourselves #really #stupidity

It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination. ↗

— Martha Gellhorn

#bitter #cosmic #destroy #due #imagination

If we are attacked we can only defend ourselves with guns not with butter. ↗

— Joseph Goebbels

#butter #defend #guns #only #ourselves

As our expedition to New York seems likely to be attended with a very fatal Consequence, and ourselves haply censured for undertaking it without assurance of success. ↗

— Lewis Hallam

#attended #censured #consequence #expedition #fatal

If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves. ↗

— Fannie Lou Hamer

#back #gets #gives #just #man