#selves

We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#danger #destroying #greed #increasingly #inwards

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#others #themselves #those #war #who

We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#circumstance #excellence #flatters #friend #merely

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#love #others #ourselves #power

There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#deceive #displease #entertain #esteem #few

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#about #anything #avoid #destiny #does

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#govern #government #ourselves #teaches #us

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#deceive #grown #grown ups #little #need

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves. ↗