Itself Quotes

But Humanity, in its desire for comfort, had over-reached itself. It had exploited the riches of nature too far. Quietly and complacently, it was sinking into decadence, and progress had come to mean the progress of the Machine.

If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.

As the eye waits on the rising of the Sun which in its own time appears above the horizon and gives itself to our sight.

Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.

Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like anything else.

You know, the things that I want my own daughters to develop – the idea that we’re going to get there through rewards and punishments seems completely at odds with the idea of character itself.

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you’re older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

Democracy is itself, a religious faith. For some it comes close to being the only formal religion they have.

Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.

There is a fluency and an ease with which true mastery and expertise always expresses itself, whether it be in writing, whether it be in a mathematical proof, whether it be in a dance that you see on stage, really in every domain. But I think the question is, you know, where does that fluency and mastery come from?