Quotes of: Ourselves Keyword

If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.

Michel Foucault

Every age sort of has its own history. History is really the stories that we retell to ourselves to make them relevant to every age. So we put our own values and our own spin on it.

Terry Jones

We all get stuck. We all lose ourselves a little bit in a fantasy or in our jobs and forget how we feel about other things. It's really important to check yourself, to spend some time alone.

Amanda Seyfried

But if we leave them alone, just satisfying ourselves with social work, economic work and the building up of a national army, it can make progress, hopefully within a short time.

Bulent Ecevit

We live in this thought web; we identify things and put them away and distance ourselves from them. But to be completely present? That is source, that is art, that is spirituality. And meditation is a way to defy fear and experience that source.

Ben Foster

Our morality system has become a mechanical device for protecting us against ourselves; it is the handiwork of terror.

America And The Young Intellectual

You might even provide a Heaven for them. We need You for that. Hell we can make for ourselves.

The Handmaid's Tale

If everything were anything," Chance said softly, "the barriers would break down, and we'd all lose ourselves to chaos. And then there would be no cotton candy.

Immortal Coil

Civilization has been an intermittent phenomenon; to this truth we have allowed ourselves to be blinded by the insolence of material success.

Ideas Have Consequences

It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so.

Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

Many of our most serious conflicts are conflicts within ourselves. Those who suppose their judgements are always consistent are unreflective or dogmatic.

Justice as Fairness: A Restatement

Whether life finds us guilty or not guilty, we ourselves know we are not innocent.

Judit... és az utóhang

We have better relationships with those who truly seek us rather than those sitting on the couch watching us move mountains trying to prove ourselves.

Killosophy

Telling stories to make himself into something that he isn’t. We all do it. We all tell stories to make ourselves look better.

The Kills

Fer in our dreams we find ourselves. Who we were. Who we are. Who we can become. Sleep. Dream.

Rebel Heart

Change isn't always comfortable, but it always teaches us something of utmost importance – usually about ourselves – and we become better people for it.

Rise of the Morningstar

There are lies in tears. The ones we weep most loudly are usually for ourselves, yet how easily we can pass them off as grief.

Recipes for a Perfect Marriage

Do we secretly idolize our imagined opposites, yearning to become the role models for others we know we could never be for ourselves?

Role Models

Learning, without any opportunities to share what we've learned, is a little like cooking for ourselves; we do it, but we probably won't do it as well.

Results

The army don’t teach enlisted men how to fly,” I said, trying to hold onto my dignity. “We gotta do that for ourselves.

Racing for the Sun

Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves.

The Sciences of the Artificial