Quotes of: History-repeats-itself Keyword

Retire into thyself. The rational principle which rules has this nature, that it is content with itself when it does what is just, and so secures tranquility.

Meditations

The last thing the hockey ball symbolized was Time itself, the unstoppability of it, the way we're chained to our bodies, which are chained to Time.

Middlesex

People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition

Baseball is a soap opera that lends itself to probabilistic thinking. [Dick Cramer]

Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game

The Bible itself can be used for both good and evil. That doesn't mean it's flawed. It means that it is perfect.

Mickey and the Gargoyle

The Government is making a fool of itself by attributing all terrorism and acts against the government only to one single patriot

Mini-Manual of the Urban Guerrilla

Triviality is evil - triviality, that is, in the form of consciousness and mind that adapts itself to the world as it is, that obeys the principle of inertia. And this principle of inertia truly is what is radically evil.

Metaphysics: Concept and Problems

This accidental meeting of possibilities calls itself I. I ask: what am I doing here? And, at once, this I becomes unreal.

Markings

If you live life so cautiously as to never fail, you end up failing at life itself.

Now and at the Hour of Our Death

You may tend to get cancer from the thing that makes you want to smoke so much, not from the smoking itself.

Not Dying: An Autobiographical Interlude

The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.

Nobody Knows My Name

It was as if the news itself wanted to reassure me. Even Jack the Ripper himself had reappeared as part of the greeting committee.

The Name of the Star

But man is a fickle and disreputable creature and perhaps, like a chess-player, is interested in the process of attaining his goal rather than the goal itself.

Notes from Underground

The world of literature is a sacred mirror that shows not the reality around us but the dreams and fears that reality stimulates: It’s not where we live, but life itself.

Only Breath

I believe it all. If I seem not to, it is only that my joy is too great to let my belief settle itself.

The Last Battle

Scepticism is never certain of itself, being less a firm intellectual position than a pose to justify bad behavior.

Life of Christ

Really, weren't these facts just placeholders until the long view could really assert itself?

The Lover's Dictionary

This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown.

Les Misérables

Today the grass listens when I speak of love. It seems to me that this word isn't honest even with itself.

The Land of Green Plums

Since the same human mire remains beneath, does not all civilisation reduce itself to the superiority of smelling nice and living well?

L'Argent

I understand once again that the greatness of God always reveals itself in the simple things.

Like the Flowing River