Political genius consists in identifying oneself with a principle.
Purity or impurity depends on oneself, no one can purify another.
Testing oneself is best when done alone.
A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself.
Believing means liberating the indestructible element in oneself, or, more accurately, liberating oneself, or, more accurately, being indestructible, or, more accurately, being.
To know oneself is not necessarily to improve oneself
Loyalty is the pledge of truth to oneself and others.
all which isn't singing is mere talking. . . and all talking's to oneself alone but the very song of(as mountains feel and lovers)singing is silence
Learning to explain phenomena such that one continues to be fascinated by the failure of one's explanations creates a continuing cycle of thinking, that is the crux of intelligence. It isn't that one person knows more than another, then. In as sense, it is important to know less than the next person, or at least to be certain of less, thus enabling more curiosity and less explaining away because one has again encountered a well-known phenomenon. The less you know the more you can find out about, and finding out for oneself is what intelligence is all about.
Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
Break what must be broken, once for all, that's all, and take the suffering on oneself.
There is so much one would rather not believe until one has seen for oneself whether it is true.
As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.
When one is a stranger to oneself, then one is estranged from others, too.
The greatest difficulty of Travel is that one is forced to take oneself along.
Compassion is not pity. . . compassion never considers an object as weak or inferior. Compassion, one might say, works from a strength born of awareness of shared weakness, and not from someone else's weakness. And from the awareness of the mutuality of us all. Thus to put down another as in pity is to put down oneself.
Mr Hemingway does it extremely well. Nothing matters. Everything happens. One wants to keep oneself loose. Avoid one thing only: gettng connected up. Don't get connected up. If you get held by anything, break it. Don't be held. Break it, and get away. Don't get away with the idea of getting somewhere else. Just get away, for the sake of getting away. Beat it! "Well, boy, I guess I'll beat it. " Ah, the pleasure in saying that
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
Rendering oneself unarmed when one had been the best-armed, out of a height of feeling-that is the means to real peace, which must always rest on a peace of mind.
The art of listening needs its highest development in listening to oneself; our most important task is to develop an ear that can really hear what we're saying.