Quotes of: False-modesty Keyword

In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.

Marianne Williamson

The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true. This is the ordinary course in a free society. The response to the unreasoned is the rational; to the uninformed, the enlightened; to the straight-out lie, the simple truth.

Anthony Kennedy

Counter-knowledge covers the propagation of false legends and conspiracy theories often used for political purposes or fundamentalist religious propaganda.

Antony Beevor

A false love, begins with the eye and soon spills from the eye in pain. Where a true love, begins with the eye, and settles in the heart.

Anthony Liccione

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

William Shakespeare

Solitude is the furnace of transformation. Without solitude we remain victims of our society and continue to be entangled in the illusions of the false self. Jesus himself entered into this furnace. There he was tempted with the three compulsions of ...

The Way of the Heart: Desert Spirituality and Contemporary Ministry

Why Cults Terrorize and Kill Children – LLOYD DEMAUSE The Journal of Psychohistory 21 (4) 1994 "Extending these local figures to a national estimate would easily mean tens of thousands of cult victims per year reporting, plus undoubtedly more who d...

Lloyd DeMause

There are infinitely many possible worlds each of which has its own worldview, norm and values, moralities and so on. Only one of them is actual for each individual. Theological and conservative systems forget the existence of other alternative possi...

Elmar Hussein

Hope itself is always genuine. It's only what it's placed in that can prove to be false.

Company of Liars

That would be the death of anyone - to recognize false hopes with a certainty. One mustn't know that. If it is offered, refuse!

The Curfew

Even if false gold makes a man happy: At the mint it will be identified.

The Dermis Probe

See, Biff, everybody around me is so false that I'm constantly lowering my ideals...

Death of a Salesman

Not bad, not bad at all," Diotallevi said. "To arrive at the truth through the painstaking reconstruction of a false text.

Foucault's Pendulum

Don’t interfere with false gods, you’ll get the gold paint all over your hands.

The Blind Assassin

Empathy is a breaking down of the false constructs of division between the observer and the observed.

#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

Even the false accusations of a person of dubious morality can taint the reputation of an upright servant.

The Ingenious Judge Dee

Discouragement is the illegitimate child of false expectations! Loyd Ogilive

The Incredible Patience of God: Along the Road to Spiritual Maturity

Without art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without science, we should always worship false gods.

Selected Essays

Whether this tale be true or false, none can tell, for none were there to witness it themselves.

The Sigh

Every truth in this world stretched beyond its limits will become a false doctrine.

Living in the Light of Eternity

To the untrue man, the whole universe is false--it is impalpable--it shrinks to nothing within his grasp.

The Scarlet Letter