#selves

Just as we descend into our consciences to judge of actions which our minds can not weigh, can we not also search in ourselves for the feeling which gives birth to forms of thought, always vague and cloudy? ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

#also #always #birth #cloudy #consciences

The atmosphere of libraries, lecture rooms and laboratories is dangerous to those who shut themselves up in them too long. It separates us from reality like a fog. ↗

— Alexis Carrel

#dangerous #fog #laboratories #lecture #libraries

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#contemplation #less #life #live #makes

There are now hundreds of thousands of new engineers that are being trained in China. If people start finding themselves losing their jobs, not to the Chinese here but because China has become such a dominant force - then there could very well be a backlash. ↗

— Iris Chang

#because #become #being #china #chinese

We were not treated by our own government as proper human beings and consequently, some outsiders did not regard us as the same kind of humans as themselves. ↗

— Jung Chang

#consequently #did #government #human #human beings

Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#break #establish #great #great minds #intellectual

Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that we are never so alive as when we concern ourselves with other people. ↗

— Harry Chapin

#concern #fully #lived #lives #never

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people. ↗

— Charlie Chaplin

#enslave #free #people #themselves

Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves. ↗

— Charlie Chaplin

#reject #rejection #search #themselves

The way the people around you position themselves around you to get in your pockets and in your mind is infuriating to me. ↗

— Dave Chappelle

#get #infuriating #me #mind #people