“Selfish— a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their own power of sacrifice.”
George Eliot (1819–1880) English novelist, journalist and translator
“Selfish— a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their own power of sacrifice.”
George Eliot (1819–1880) English novelist, journalist and translator
Nathaniel Branden (1930–2014) Canadian–American psychotherapist and writer
“There's nothing more embarrassing than to have earned the disfavor of a perceptive animal.”
Michael Chabon book Wonder Boys
Source: Wonder Boys (1995)
Gregory Bateson (1904–1980) English anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, visual anthropologist, semiotician and cyberneticist
Source: Mind and Nature, a necessary unity, 1988, p. 74-75
“Ordinarily men exercise their memory much more than their judgment.”
Napoleon I of France (1769–1821) French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
“Self-perception is more important than any other factor in predicting success.”
Jay Samit (1961) American businessman
Future Proofing You (2021)
“By mind I mean the totality of perceptions, memories and ideas in an organism.”
Will Durant (1885–1981) American historian, philosopher and writer
Source: Fallen Leaves (2014), Ch. 6 : Our Souls
Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936) 19th-20th century Spanish writer and philosopher
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), XI : The Practical Problem
Context: And what is its moral proof? We may formulate it thus: Act so that in your own judgment and in the judgment of others you may merit eternity, act so that you may become irreplaceable, act so that you may not merit death. Or perhaps thus: Act as if you were to die tomorrow, but to die in order to survive and be eternalized. The end of morality is to give personal, human finality to the Universe; to discover the finality that belongs to it — if indeed it has any finality — and to discover it by acting.
David Icke (1952) English writer and public speaker
Alex Jones in the 2009 interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpscVMiuTVY with Icke (starts at 1:00) <br class="br">About Icke
Sam Keen (1931) author, professor, and philosopher
Source: The Passionate Life (1983), p. 130