Itself Quotes

If you have only one passion in life - football - and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself.

In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.

Nature isn't positive in that way. It doesn't aim itself at you. It's not being unkind to you.

All is connected... no one thing can change by 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.

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

The rehabilitation of order as a universal principle, however, suggested at the same time that orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for the nature of organized systems in general or for those created by man in particular.

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.

The real peril of war lies not in military defeat. It lies in war itself, whether we win or lose.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

Democracy is a political method, that is to say, a certain type of institutional arrangement for arriving at political - legislative and administrative - decisions and hence incapable of being an end in itself.

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.

Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.

The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself.

Writing the book was itself a process of concealing and revealing.

A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.

The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon.

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

Consciousness itself is an infinite regress. This explains coincidences.

Well in the end the world can crank itself up to sanctions, as it has with Zimbabwe, another sad case.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying.

In the 18th century, James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny, and Richard Arkwright pioneered the water-propelled spinning frame which led to the mass production of cotton. This was truly revolutionary. The cotton manufacturers created a whole new class of people - the urban proletariat. The structure of society itself would never be the same.

Business is in itself a power.

I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker.

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

And therefore we must seek dialogue in this networked world. We must ask which voice was actually attempting to make itself heard and saw no other possibility of gaining a hearing. To that extent, for a while this also represented a forced opening of a cosmopolitan view.

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.