Thyself Quotes - Page 14

• If Christ were born in Bethlehem a thousand times and not in thee thyself; then art thou lost eternally.

  Angelus Silesius

  Art, Christ, Lost

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• Care-charming Sleep, thou easer of all woes, brother to Death, sweetly thyself dispose.

  John Fletcher

  Brother, Sleep, Care

  'Valentinian' (performed c.1610-14) act 5, sc. 7 'Song'

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• Be not afraid, though every stay
  Should fail, or be removed away,
  And thou be stript of all;
  But lose thyself in that vast sea,
  The ocean of the Deity,
  And all they cares shall fall.
  
  In death which is the most profound,
  The purest life is always found;
  Then, blindly, all forego!
  He ne're shall find, who will not lose;
  Who sinks from self, shall gain repose,
  Which none but he can know.

  Gerhard Tersteegen

  Ocean, Fall, Self

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• Lie not, neither to thyself, nor man, nor God. Let mouth and heart be one; beat and speak together, and make both felt in action. It is for cowards to lie.

  George Herbert

  Lying, Heart, Men

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• This serpent, SATAN, is not the enemy of Man, but He who made Gods of our race, knowing Good and Evil; He bade 'Know Thyself!' and taught Initiation.

  Aleister Crowley

  Men, Race, Knowing

  Aleister Crowley (1991). “Magick: In Theory and Practice”, Book Sales

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• To maintain an opinion because it is thine, and not because it is true, is to prefer thyself above the truth.

  Ralph Venning

  Opinion

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• Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend, rather than the gloss of a sweet-lipped flatterer there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness.

  Francis Quarles

  Friendship, Sweet, Lying

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• Fear God, and offend not the Prince nor his laws, and keep thyself out of the magistrate's claws.

  Thomas Tusser

  Law, Fear God, Magistrates

  Thomas Tusser (1812). “Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry,: As Well for the Champion Or Open Country, as for the Woodland Or Several; Together with A Book of Huswifery. Being a Calendar of Rural and Domestic Economy, for Every Month in the Year; and Exhibiting a Picture of the Agriculture, Customs, and Manners of England, in the Sixteenth Century”, p.29, Lackington, Allen

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• Know thyself. Know the customer. Innovate.

  Beth Comstock

  Marketing, Know Thyself, Customers

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• King of the animals — as thou hast described him — I should rather say king of the beasts, thou being the greatest — because thou hast spared slaying them, in order that they may give thee their children for the benefit of the gullet, of which thou hast attempted to make a sepulchre for all animals; and I would say still more, if it were allowed me to speak the entire truth.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Kings, Children, Animal

  "The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete".

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• In me didst thou exist-and, in my death, see by this image, which is thine own, how utterly thou hast murdered thyself.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Edgar Allan Poe, Stuart Levine, Susan Levine (1976). “The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition”, p.283, University of Illinois Press

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• Treat others as thou wouldst be treated. What thou likest not for thyself, dispense not to others.

  Khwaja Abdullah Ansari

  Law, Morality, Treats

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• Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.

  Thomas Browne

  Sir Thomas Browne (1844). “Religio Medici. Its sequel, Christian Morals ... With resemblant passages from Cowper's Task, and a verbal index. [Edited by John Peace.]”, p.141

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• No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everything to his own advantage. Thou must live for another, if thou wishest to live for thyself.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Motivational, Men

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 350-52, Epistolæ Ad Lucilium, XLVIII, 1922.

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• The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. "Love thy neighbor as thyself." Christ, some of the other great Jewish teachers, Buddha, all preached it. Their followers forgot it. What is the trouble between capital and labor, what is the trouble in many of our communities, but rather a universal forgetting that this teaching is one of our first obligations.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Running, Teacher, Peace

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• Make thyself perfect; others, happy.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Perfect

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself.

  Francis Quarles

  Book, Men, Distasteful

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.39

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• To "know thyself" must mean to know the malignancy of one's own instincts and to know, as well, one's power to deflect it.

  Karl A. Menninger

  Mean, Instinct, Know Thyself

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• And, in fine, the ancient precept, "Know thyself," and the modern precept, "Study nature," become at last one maxim.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Knowledge, Science, Self

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Nature: Addresses, and Lectures”, p.83

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• Where the heart is, there the muses, there the gods sojourn, and not in any geography of fame. Massachusetts, Connecticut River, and Boston Bay, you think paltry places, and the ear loves names of foreign and classic topography. But here we are; and, if we tarry a little, we may come to learn that here is best. See to it, only, that thyself is here;--and art and nature, hope and fate, friends, angels, and the Supreme Being, shall not absent from the chamber where thou sittest.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Art, Angel

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.378, Library of America

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• Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

  Paul the Apostle

  Men, Law, Bears

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• Physician, heal thyself.

  Luke the Evangelist

  Doctors, Medicine, Physicians

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• Praise thyself never.

  Seneca the Younger

  Modesty, Praise

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• To know thyself--in others self-concern;
  Would'st thou know others? read thyself--and learn!

  Friedrich Schiller

  Self, Concern, Knows

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• Pardon others often, thyself never.

  Publilius Syrus

  Pardon

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