Itself Quotes

A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.

A gold standard doesn't imply stability in the prices of the goods and services that people buy every day, it implies a stability in the price of gold itself.

Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.

Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.

Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!

I am surprised that I cannot recall whether my desire to become a minister transformed itself into a wish to lead the more militant life of missionary, by a slow process or suddenly.

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

Iran is isolating itself from the rest of the world.

Part of keeping space open is not to try to choose a form - to spend more time thinking about content, and let form take care of itself.

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary.

For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.

Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.

American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions.

Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.

Thus, in accordance with the spirit of the Historical School, knowledge of the principles of the human world falls within that world itself, and the human sciences form an independent system.

We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

Success comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is not spared by this law.

There are a lot of conservative people, a lot of moderate people, Republicans, Democrats, in Hollywood. It is just that the conservative people by the nature of the word itself play closer to the vest. They do not go around hot dogging it.

But I do think that we approach music, in of itself, with a religious attitude.

Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

The man for me is the cherry on the pie. But I'm the pie and my pie is good all by itself. Even if I don't have a cherry.

The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself.

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Any Southern nationalist movement, especially one that wraps itself in the Confederate flag, is going to be viewed with suspicion, given the historical record.

But the universe, as a collection of finite things, presents itself as a kind of island situated in a pure vacuity to which time, regarded as a series of mutually exclusive moments, is nothing and does nothing.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.