self-awareness Quotes

There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it.

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals.

I have written on all sorts of subjects... yet I have no enemies; except indeed all the Whigs, all the Tories, and all the Christians.

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.

To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive.

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.

Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

Human nature is not of itself vicious.