Thyself Quotes - Page 17

• Content not thyself that thou art virtuous in the general; for one link being wanting, the chain is defective.

  William Penn

  Art, Links, Virtue

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.158

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• Retire within thyself, and thou will discover how small a stock is there.
  [Lat., Tecum habita, et noris quam sit tibi curta supellex.]

  Aulus Persius Flaccus

  Character, Retiring

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• Intercourse is after all man's best teacher. "Know thyself" is an excellent maxim; but even self-knowledge cannot be perfected in closets and cloisters--nor amid lake scenery, and on the sunny side of the mountains. Men who seldom mix with their fellow-creatures are almost sure to be one-sided--the victims of fixed ideas, that sometimes lead to insanity.

  William Matthews

  Teacher, Men, Lakes

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• All men are frail; but thou shouldst reckon none so frail as thyself.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Men, Frail, Frailty

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• Thou, Everlasting Strength, hast set Thyself forth to bear our burdens. May we bear Thy cross, and bearing that; find there is nothing else to bear; and touching that cross, find that instead of taking away our strength, it adds thereto. Give us faith for darkness, for trouble, for sorrow, for bereavement, for disappointment; give us a faith that will abide though the earth itself should pass away--a faith for living, a faith for dying.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Disappointment, Giving, Touching

  Henry Ward Beecher (1868). “Prayers in the Congregation”, p.88

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• Son, heed my instruction, and apply thyself to know women; let thine eyes observe her when she is with another, for what she doeth with him, she will do with thee, also.

  Gelett Burgess

  Women, Eye, Son

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• Know thyself means this, that you get acquainted with what you know, and what you can do.

  Menander

  Inspirational, Mean, Development And Growth

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• Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise

  Edward Young

  Despise

  Edward Young, Charles Edward DE COETLOGON (1793). “Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job”, p.131

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• Eternity.—Thy name Or glad, or fearful, we pronounce, as thoughts Wandering in darkness shape thee. Thou strange being, Which art and must be, yet which contradict'st All sense, all reasoning,—thou, who never wast Less than thyself, and who still art thyself Entire, though the deep draught which Time has taken Equals thy present store—No line can reach To thy unfathomed depths. The reasoning sage Who can dissect a sunbeam, count the stars, And measure distant worlds, is here a child, And, humbled, drops his calculating pen.

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Art, Stars, Children

  Anna Letitia Barbauld, Lucy Aikin (1825). “The works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: in two volumes”, p.230

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• I don't know what's meant by Know thyself, which seems to ask a window to look at a window.

  James Richardson

  Looks, Window, Know Thyself

  "Vectors: Aphorisms & Ten-second Essays". Book by James Richardson, 2001.

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• Everyone has his food, and his time of life is reckoned.Their tongues are separate in speech,And their natures as well;Their skins are distinguished,As thou distinguishest the foreign peoples.Thou makest a Nile in the underworld,Thou bringest forth as thou desirestTo maintain the peopleAccording as thou madest them for thyself,The lord of all of them, wearying with them,The lord of every land, rising for them,The Aton of the day, great of majesty.

  Akhenaton

  Land, Skins, Rising

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• Come, swear it, damn thyself, lest, being like one of heaven, the devils themselves should fear to seize thee; therefore be double-damned, swear,--thou art honest.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Heaven, Devil

  William Shakespeare (1835). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: With a Life of the Poet, and Notes, Original and Selected; Together with a Copious Glossary”, p.639

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• Even the humblest mammal's strong sexual, parental, and social instincts give rise to 'do unto others as yourself' and 'love thy neighbor as thyself'.

  Charles Darwin

  Love, Strong, Giving

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• Never value anything as profitable to thyself which shall compel thee to break thy promise, to lose thy self-respect, to hate any man, to suspect, to curse, to act the hypocrite, to desire anything which needs walls and curtains.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Wall, Hate, Hypocrite

  馬可•奧里略 (Marcus Aurelius) (2014). “沉思錄:讀了一百年還要再讀一百年的不朽鉅著”, p.67, 德威國際文化

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• Help thyself, then thou wilt also have the help of the Almighty.

  Adolf Hitler

  Helping, Almighty

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• Morality is a biological adaptation no less than are hands and feet and teeth... Considered as a rationally justifiable set of claims about an objective something, ethics is illusory. I appreciate that when somebody says, 'Love thy neighbor as thyself,' they think they are referring above and beyond themselves... Nevertheless... such reference is truly without foundation. Morality is just an aid to survival and reproduction... and any deeper meaning is illusory...

  Michael Ruse

  Thinking, Hands, Feet

  "The Darwinian Paradigm: Essays on Its History, Philosophy and Religious Implications (Evolutionary Theory and Christian Ethics)". Book by Michael Ruse, 1989.

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• It is permissible to take life's blessings with both hands provided thou dost know thyself prepared in the opposite event to take them just as gladly. This applies to food and friends and kindred, to anything God gives and takes away... As long as God is satisfied do thou rest content. If he is pleased to want something else of thee, still rest content.

  Meister Eckhart

  Blessing, Hands, Opposites

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• Do thine own work, and know thyself.

  Plato

  Know Thyself, Knows

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• This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
  [Lat., Hic rogo non furor est ne moriare mori?]

  Martial

  Death, Order, Madness

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• When thou choosest a wife, think not only of thyself, but of those God may give thee of her, that they reproach thee not for their being.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Marriage, Thinking, Giving

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1857). “Complete poetical works: containing: Proverbial philosophy, A thousand lines, Hactenus, Geraldine, and miscellaneous poems. With a portrait of the author”, p.105

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• Everything that thou reprovest in another, thou must most carefully avoid in thyself.
  [Lat., Omnia quae vindicaris in altero, tibi ipsi vehementer fugienda sunt.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Honesty

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• Anything an artist does is to show ourselves as we really are, which is a complex thing. I don't think that one work of Philosophy or Art, or Letters, or Acting, or Middle Playing, or Tightrope Walking, or Flea Circuses has made mankind better, if by better you mean kinder, wiser, more tolerant of each other. One thing self knowledge. Knoticayton: know thyself.

  Peter O'Toole

  Art, Philosophy, Mean

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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