A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable read more

A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action.

Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself.

Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself.

The soul that is within me no man can degrade.

The soul that is within me no man can degrade.

Self-denial is painful for a moment, but very agreeable in the end.

Self-denial is painful for a moment, but very agreeable in the end.

How could I have been anyone other than me?

How could I have been anyone other than me?

You can say that you dont care what anyone thinks about you, but in the end, its all that really read more

You can say that you dont care what anyone thinks about you, but in the end, its all that really matters.

I have just about all I can take of myself.

I have just about all I can take of myself.

When fight begins within himself, a man's worth something.

When fight begins within himself, a man's worth something.

To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is read more

To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is the merest decency. But it is from the far more difficult achievement of seeing ourselves amongst others, as a local example of the forms human life has locally taken, a case among cases, a world among worlds, that the largeness of mind, without which objectivity is self-congratulation and tolerance a sham, comes.