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When we try to observe things that are very small, the act of observation itself will significantly disturb the state we are seeking to measure. — John D. Barrow

The purpose of Art is to convey the truth of a thing, not to be the truth itself. SYLVIE BERESFORD TODD — Kate Atkinson

Only one possibility remains: the movement by which the will turns from enjoying the Creator to enjoying his creatures belongs to the will itself. — Augustine Of Hippo

I'm more fascinated by a character's reaction to the monster than I am by the monster itself. — Nathan Kane

Thinking is the soul talking to itself. — Plato

Simple shapes are inhuman. They fail to resonate with the way nature organizes itself or with the way human perception sees the world. — James Gleick

Our true nature doesn't need any explanation or demonstration to know itself. It just knows because knowing is part of its nature. — Ilchi Lee

History tended to repeat itself.
Why should her past be any different? — Kayla Krantz

When the individuality of the artist begins to express itself, what the artist gains in the way of liberty he loses in the way of order. — Pablo Picasso

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself. — Simone De Beauvoir

Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them. — Jules Verne

Each person is a story that the Soul of the World wants to tell to itself. — Michael Meade

And there's no damage to the car. Except to the car itself. — Murray Walker

The flame is not as bright to itself as it is to those it illuminates: so too the sage. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman. — Peter Max

Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society. — Abraham Joshua Heschel

It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end it itself. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them. — Thomas Kuhn

It is better to have a Church that is wounded but out in the streets than a Church that is sick because it is closed in on itself. — Pope Francis

I deplore any action which denies artistic talent an opportunity to express itself because of prejudice against race origin. — Bess Truman

Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend. — P.L. Travers

Yet, the Universe is real enough to the conscious beings in it, which are as unreal as it is itself. — Helena Blavatsky

To a woman all reformation, all salvation from any sort of ruin, and all moral renewal is included in love and can only show itself in that form. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

You can not force somebody to love you. The heart should follow you by itself. — Enayat

To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers. — Paul Klee

Secrecy can spring from the best motives; but as it grows it begins to exist only for itself, only for its own sake, only to cover its own abuses. — Christopher Dodd

Every man's work, pursued steadily, tends to become an end in itself, and so to bridge over the loveless chasms of his life. — George Eliot

Her husband's desire had always been more to chase and capture the gleam of the person inside the body than the body itself. — Lauren Groff

If hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue, piousness is virtue paying tribute to itself. — Michael Kinsley

It's a wonderful thing to know that there is something to know there is something greater than I am, and that is God itself. — Maya Angelou

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Teachers need to be more inspirational. But it's also up to engineering to make itself more interesting. — Bruce Dickinson

Art grabs people by their eyeballs, it seduces them ... art is a means to an end rather than simply an end in itself. — Eric Drooker

The long years had taught him that everything worked itself out given enough time, and some things would always be the way fate wished them to be. — Michelle M. Pillow

If we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. — Plato

Two very simple rules:
A. You don't have to write.
B. You can't do anything else
The rest comes of itself. — Raymond Chandler

Do the next right thing and the next right step will reveal itself to you. — Julie Connor

I never plan my novels because if I know what is going to happen, it bores me rigid. I let the story tell itself. — James Herbert

What better way to weaken a powerful enemy than to get it fighting itself? — Charles Stross

For everything that has not successfully transcended itself can only fall prey to revivals without end. — Jean Baudrillard

A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency. — Anthony Trollope

If man has learned to see and know what really is, he will act in accordance with truth, Epistemology is in itself ethics, and ethics is epistemology. — Herbert Marcuse

The process is only a means to an end-creating the painting I want. It doesn't mean anything itself. It's only a way of creating a result. — Jackson Pollock

Americans relate all effort, all work, and all of life itself to the dollar. Their talk is of nothing but dollars. — Nancy Mitford

The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines its vision of the world. — Roger Scruton

Education is the means to end, not the end itself. Education should not become another status quo, or silo, or the end. — Pearl Zhu

The soul establishes itself. But how far can it swim out through the eyes And still return safely to its nest? — John Ashbery

We are the creature that tells itself stories to understand what sort of creature it is. — Salman Rushdie

Envy is ashamed of itself. If it weren't hanging back, it would go all the way to emulation and love. — James Richardson

The proper rewards are not simply tacked on to the activity for which they are given, but are the activity itself in consummation. — C.S. Lewis

Being born a human being is a rare event in itself, and it is wise to use this opportunity as beneficially as possible. — Dalai Lama XIV

In a perfect world, I'd love to make 90-minute movies, but for me, a movie needs to be as long or short as it can sustain itself. — Paul Feig

Government itself at length must fall To nature's state, where all have right to all. — John Dryden

All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. — Kurt Vonnegut

At times it's like sadness has planted itself on her face, refusing to leave, an overwhelming sadness, and sometimes I see despair there, too. — Melina Marchetta

I call to mind flatness and dampness; and then all is madness - the madness of a memory which busies itself among forbidden things. — Edgar Allan Poe

It should seem that indolence itself would incline a person to be honest, as it requires infinitely greater pains and contrivance to be a knave. — William Shenstone

Language itself is a cultural convention, and since the Bible and other ancient documents use language to communicate, they are bound to a culture. — John H. Walton

The human hand allows the mind to reveal itself. — Maria Montessori

There are days when simply seeing feels like happiness itself ... You feel so rich, the elation seems almost excessive and you want to share it — Robert Doisneau

A situation in itself," he said, "is neither happy nor unhappy. It's only your response to it that causes your sorrow. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Democracy is not an end in itself, but a means to achieve the sacred promises of human dignity, justice and peace — Alfred-Maurice De Zayas

You don't have to be afraid, even death itself does not have power. In Christ, everything is becoming new, everything is different. — Michael Gungor

A person who refuses to manage himself and discipline his flesh will be disciplined and taught by life itself. — Sunday Adelaja

I persuaded him to throw the dirk away; and it was as easy as persuading a child to give up some bright fresh new way of killing itself. — Mark Twain

Give paint a chance to show itself entirely as paint. — John Marin

Every living faith must have within itself the power of rejuvenation if it is to live — Mahatma Gandhi

Disappointment is just the action of your brain readjusting itself to reality after discovering things are not the way you thought they were. — Brad Warner

One of the reasons why it needs no special education to be a Christian is that Christianity is an education itself. — C.S. Lewis

Reason is the inextinguishable impulse to philosophize with whose destruction reason itself is destroyed. — Karl Jaspers

Human "nature" is a nature continually in quest of itself, obliged at every moment to transcend what it was a moment before. — W. H. Auden

It is a higher glory ... to stay war itself with a word, than to slay men with the sword, and to procure or maintain peace by peace, not by war. — Augustine Of Hippo

Whenever a new situation presented itself, you had to remain cool and distant — Paulo Coelho

Every proposal to seek authorization elsewhere than in the gospel itself must lead us astray. The — Lesslie Newbigin

Custom adapts itself to expediency. — Tacitus

After all, if you really aren't trying to get anywhere else in this moment, patience takes care of itself. — Jon Kabat-Zinn

Undertaking initially to protect its citizens against aggression, [government] has often itself become ... a far greater aggressor. — John Hospers

The souls ability to nourish itself lies in the heart. — Aristotle.

That's one of those things about love. It always assumes it can find a way to express itself. — Bob Goff

I was a bit of a goofball. I was always silly. I think that lends itself to being an actor. — Rob McClure

Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life. — Lascelles Abercrombie

The function of posterity is to look after itself. — Dylan Thomas

A way foolishness has of revenging itself is to excommunicate the world. — George Santayana

The night, a living presence, was in constant motion, shifting itself, sighing, breathing. She wondered if perhaps it, too, was trying to get warm. — Laird Koenig

My favorite definition of the mindful path is the one the reveals itself as you walk down it. You cannot find the path until you step on to it. — Kelly McGonigal

Zen approaches it from the practical side of life-that is, to work out Enlightenment in life itself. — D.T. Suzuki

There's no independent satisfaction without the success of the film itself. The feel that you have done the best you can to support the film. — Harrison Ford

When everything starts going wrong all at once, it is to protect something big and lovely that is trying to get itself born. — Anne Lamott

Not every light is a true light;To the wise the light of truth is light itself. — Thiruvalluvar

You can't throw your ego away, but you can use its innate desire to experience that which is beyond itself to give you the impetus to meditate. — Frederick Lenz

With no name attached to it, the place somehow declared itself nowhere and everywhere at the same time — Adam P. Knave

Profit has to be a means to other ends rather than an end in itself. — Charles Handy

Your problem, Kendra, is that you can easily imagine using magic. What you have to do now is imagine the magic itself. — Lee Edward Fodi

Art has to be, you know, trade itself, conform to the old strict guidelines set forth by how it was going to act in the future. — Immortal Technique

Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science. — Edward Sapir

The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

It is your reaction to adversity, not the adversity itself, that determines how your life's story will develop. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

The mind commands the mind to will, and yet, though it be itself, it minds not. What is this monstrous thing? And why is it? — Saint Augustine

Even if I am but a pretender to wisdom, that in itself is philosophy. — Diogenes

The weatherman is not only blamed for his failure to foretell, he is blamed for the weather itself. — Chuck Jones