#ourselves

We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

#administrative #colour #course #fire #fit

Let us hold our discussion together in our own persons, making trial of the truth and of ourselves. ↗

— Protagoras

#hold #let us #making #our #ourselves

It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#apart #body #chained #compelled #creature

A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#ourselves #recreate #sufficient #weather #world

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#art #emerge #know #only #ourselves

It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#because #dead #dying #faint #grows

There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves. ↗

— Robert Quillen

#act #every #glimpses #heaven #ourselves

A lot of us think we're invincible... but we have to start putting ourselves on the to-do list. ↗

— Giuliana Rancic

#list #lot #ourselves #putting #start

As a nation we should commit ourselves not only to the fight against terrorism, but to economic justice, defeat of the AIDS epidemic and vestiges of discriminatory policies of all kinds. ↗

— Charles Rangel

#aids #commit #defeat #discriminatory #economic

If we look into ourselves we discover propensities which declare that our intellects have arisen from a lower form; could our minds be made visible we should find them tailed. ↗

— William Winwood Reade

#could #declare #discover #find #form