Aberystwyth (n.) A nostalgic yearning which is in itself more pleasant than the thing being yearned for.
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
That sun, that light had faded, and she had faded with them. Now she was as grey as the season itself.
The mark of a living thing is to be involved in opposites (impossibilities): the living cell that has to be continually adapting itself to stay alive, with its identity.
I live in a state of hypersensitivity, and I've always had this feeling that something bad is going to happen to myself, or my wife and children. This manifests itself in different fears and visions.
The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.
The knowledge that we consider knowledge proves itself in action. What we now mean by knowledge is information in action, information focused on results.
I was surprised that the TV series was popular itself, but after that it went on to become more popular over the years and thus it seemed eventually that they would turn it into a movie.
In the long term, it is desirable that the human race, faced with the prospect of extinction on Earth, should prepare an escape route for itself to another inhabitable planet.
Even the distribution of rations leaves much to be desired; the fatigue party, well-intentioned and sympathetic though it be, often finds itself short of provisions.
Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in.
Having viewed Europe as an extension and projection of itself, France now finds Europe developing a mind and identity of its own which embraces France but is not controlled by France.
There is no real need for decorations when throwing a barbecue party - let the summer garden, in all its vibrant and luscious splendour, speak for itself.
India is content with itself, and driven by the will to sit on the high table of prosperity. It will not be deflected in its mission by noxious practitioners of terror.
The answer is that it does not matter what you think, the monster said, because your mind will contradict itself a hundred times each day.
There are selves too big for one person to contain. You cannot call them selfish. There is nothing -ish about such selves. They are the self, as it were, itself.
An intellectual challenge presents itself? I am in bliss. Instantly, it brings forth the notion of triumph.
The state is out of control, the state is on a spending binge, the state has to stop putting itself in a hole that's getting deeper and deeper and deeper.
My buildings should have an emotional core - a space which, in itself, has an emotional nice feeling.
When someone sets out to be controversial or provocative or shocking as an end in itself, I don't think that's a noble goal.
Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all.
