Quotes of: History-repeats-itself Keyword

True love is generative. It is the only kind that makes more of itself as it goes along.

King's Cross: The Story of the World in the Life of Jesus

The vanity of intelligence is that the intelligent man is often more committed to 'one-upping' his opponent than being truthful. When the idea of intelligence, rather than intelligence itself, becomes a staple, there is no wisdom in it.

Killosophy

To be obsessed by the idea of freedom, for instance, is itself a form of slavery. Such people are in the chains of the hope of freedom, and are therefore able to do little else than struggle with them.

Reflections

The strategic center of the rebellion was not a place – not New York, Philadelphia, not the Hudson corridor – but the Continental Army itself.

Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence

Life is a gift, and should be cherished, lived and experienced. Though experience often reveals itself as pain in this world, it is still purposeful, it still has its place in the evolution of our spirit.

Revelation

Always guarding one's real, precious self in a cocoon of tranquility within a thousand masks. Life itself had become a secret affair.

A Secret Affair

The purpose of art is to give the traveling human race an improved map that shows the way to itself. If art isn't for *that*, what is it for?

Short Drive, Sweet Chariot

photographs are very interesting, and you can look into them a million times and still find a new meaning in them, something in the past that was caught in the film itself…

Smog City

There was the noise itself, which he thought of vaguely as the noise of classical music, sameish and rhetorical, full of feelings people surely never had

The Stranger's Child

A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection — not an invitation for hypnosis.

The Screen Education Reader: Cinema, Television, Culture

Before a dream can mature and manifest itself as real, a lot of loaded efforts come into play! You are the pivot on which those loads must be turned!

Shaping the dream

All that we know, soon shall we abandon. As time will lend itself. Eyes know only what they see. But brave hearts beat on with belief.

Shrinking Forward

Once, if my memory serves me well, my life was a banquet where every heart revealed itself, where every wine flowed.

A Season in Hell

For man's only weapon is courage that flinches not from the gates of Hell itself, and against such not even the legions of Hell can stand.

The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane

A meaningful relationship between two people cannot sustain itself only in the present tense.

Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

The female form provides the solution in which the essence itself is held; she is , and acted upon, the male is , the mover.

Monuments and Maidens: The Allegory of the Female Form

If we take memetics seriously then the 'me' that could do the choosing is itself a memetic construct: a fluid and ever-changing group of memes installed in a complicated meme machine.

The Meme Machine

I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.

Madam Secretary: A Memoir

The Gaians sneered at the Zhore behind their backs, calling them pacifists, as if that word were an insult, but Lirzhan did not take it as such. A peaceful solution was always best, but if one did not present itself, then so be it.

The Mandala Maneuver

Empirical" knowledge itself is of little benefit unless it awakens the inner perception of man as to his own situation, his potentialities, his risks, and his destiny

Major Themes of the Qur'an

The work, the pride in your work, the worth of the work itself...all those things faded away to the magic-lantern shades they really were when the pain got bad enough.

Misery