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Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need people to read more
No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need people to bear witness against our inner judge, who keeps book on our shortcomings and transgressions. We need people to convince us that we are not as bad as we think we are.
I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm read more
I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else.
Study to be what you wish to seem.
Study to be what you wish to seem.
When the archer misses the mark, he turns and looks for the fault within himself. Failure to hit the bull's read more
When the archer misses the mark, he turns and looks for the fault within himself. Failure to hit the bull's eye is never the fault of the target. To improve your aim -- improve yourself.
To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is read more
To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is the merest decency. But it is from the far more difficult achievement of seeing ourselves amongst others, as a local example of the forms human life has locally taken, a case among cases, a world among worlds, that the largeness of mind, without which objectivity is self-congratulation and tolerance a sham, comes.
He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself.
He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself.
The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
The force of selfishness is as inevitable and as calculable as the force of gravitation.
The force of selfishness is as inevitable and as calculable as the force of gravitation.
