“Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.”

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American novelist, short story writer 1925–1964

Tasha Alexander (1969) American writer

Source: Tears of Pearl

“Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.”

Max Frisch (1911–1991) Swiss playwright and novelist

I'm not Stiller (1955)

“The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.”

C.G. Jung (1875–1961) Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology

“To accept anything on trust, to preclude critical application and development, is a grievous sin; and in order to apply and develop, “simple interpretation” is obviously not enough.”

Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) Russian politician, led the October Revolution

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Uncritical Criticism
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1900
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“Becoming a vegetarian is not merely a symbolic gesture. Nor is it an attempt to isolate oneself from the ugly realities of the world, to keep oneself pure and so without responsibility for the cruelty and carnage all around. Becoming a vegetarian is a highly practical and effective step one can take toward ending both the killing of nonhuman animals and the infliction of suffering upon them.”

Peter Singer book Animal Liberation

Source: Animal Liberation: A New Ethics for our Treatment of Animals (1975), Ch. 4: Becoming a Vegetarian

“Scholarship, far from leading inexorably to a profession, may in fact preclude it. For it does not permit you to abandon it.”

Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) German literary critic, philosopher and social critic (1892-1940)

Der Beruf folgt so wenig aus der Wissenschaft, dass sie ihn sogar ausschließen kann. Denn die Wissenschaft duldet ihrem Wesen nach keine Lösung von sich.
The Life of Students (1915)