Great Throughts Treasury

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Stanislaw I, born Stanisław Leszczyński, also spelled Stanislaus NULL

It is hardly possible to suspect another without having in one's self the seeds of the baseness the other is accused of.

Baseness | Character | Self |

Vaga Saneyi Samhita Upanishad

When to a man who understands, the self has become all things, what sorrow, what trouble can there be to him who once beheld that unity?

Character | Man | Self | Sorrow | Unity | Trouble |

Abu Yazid Tayfur ibn 'Isa ibn Surushan al-Bismtami

Forgetfulness of self is remembrance of God. Whoever knows God through God becomes alive, and whoever knows God through self becomes dead.

Forgetfulness | God | Self | Wisdom | God |

Paul Tyner

For this cause he came into the world; that he might be a witness to the truth; a living, unimpeachable witness of the truth that shall make us free - the truth of man’s religion (reunion) with God, through absolute spiritual self consciousness - with God - with the Eternal, Omnipotent and Omniscient Source and Fountain of Life, “in whom we live and move and have our being,” without whom we are not!

Absolute | Cause | Character | Consciousness | Eternal | God | Life | Life | Man | Religion | Self | Truth | Witness | World | God |

Averroes, full name ʾAbū l-Walīd Muḥammad bin ʾAḥmad bin Rušd NULL

A simple-minded believer would say, ‘God is in Heaven.’ A man of trained mind, knowing that God must be represented as a physical entity in space, would say, ‘God is everywhere, and not merely in Heaven.’ But if the omnipresence of God be taken only in a physical and spatial sense, that formula, too, is likely in error. Accordingly, the philosopher more adequately expresses the purely spiritual nature of God when he asserts that God is nowhere but in Himself; in fact, rather than say that God is in spaced he might more justly say that space and matter are in God.

Error | God | Heaven | Knowing | Man | Mind | Nature | Omnipresence | Sense | Space | Wisdom | God |

Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Oxford

It is difficult to divest one's self of vanity; because impossible to divest one's self of self-love.

Character | Love | Self | Self-love |

Nathan Ackerman, fully Nathan Ward Ackerman

The image of self and the image of family are reciprocally interdependent.

Family | Interdependent | Self | Wisdom |