Itself Quotes

Love gives itself; it is not bought.

There is no need to struggle to be free; the absence of struggle is in itself freedom.

For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself.

The analysis of the thing is not the thing itself.

Sometimes the right response to evil is an appeal to powerful and effective social organization – an appeal to civilization itself.

Sure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicated to the sayings of Confucius.

Democracy is talking itself to death. The people do not know what they want; they do not know what is the best for them.

And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.

The Divine Light is always in man, presenting itself to the senses and to the comprehension, but man rejects it.