If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution.
Wallace Stevens

Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.
Wallace Stevens

Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process.
Thurgood Marshall

I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way, we are just the medium.
Maynard James Keenan

Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts.
John Chrysostom

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.
Philip Guedalla

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
Abraham Maslow

Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.
Andre Malraux

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.
Ray Bradbury

Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.
George W. Bush

As for the promotion of peace congresses we have had our meetings and assemblies, but the promotion through them of the determined and effective will to peace displaying itself in action and policy remains to be achieved.
Lester B. Pearson

Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.
Joseph Wood Krutch

The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.
Joseph Wood Krutch

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
John Muir

Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in.
Paul J. Meyer

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Arthur Conan Doyle

For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.
Arthur Conan Doyle

It can have its effect only through the intervention of God, inasmuch as in the ideas of God a monad rightly demands that God, in regulating the rest from the beginning of things, should have regard to itself.
Gottfried Leibniz

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.
Francis Bacon

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca