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To answer before listening —
This is foolish and disgraceful.
[מֵשִׁ֣יב דָּ֭בָר בְּטֶ֣רֶם יִשְׁמָ֑ע אִוֶּ֥לֶת הִיא־ל֝֗וֹ וּכְלִמָּֽה׃]
The Bible (The Old Testament) (14th - 2nd C BC) Judeo-Christian sacred scripture [Tanakh, Hebrew Bible], incl. the Apocrypha (Deuterocanonicals)
Book 20. Proverbs 18:13 (Prov 18:13) [RJPS (2023 ed.)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/bible-ot/82765/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bible #oldtestament #proverbs #activelistening #answering #conversation #dialog #discussion #engagement #listening #reply #responding #response #retorting #selfabsorption #selfcentered #speaking
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A quotation from Bertrand Russell
In fact the whole antithesis between self and the rest of the world, which is implied in the doctrine of self-denial, disappears as soon as we have any genuine interest in persons or things outside ourselves. Through such interests a man comes to feel himself part of the stream of life, not a hard separate entity like a billiard-ball, which can have no relation with other such entities except that of collision.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Conquest of Happiness, Part 2, ch. 17 “The Happy Man” (1930)More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/819…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #body #engagement #externalities #interest #life #living #meaningoflife #relationship #self #selfabsorption #selfcenteredness #selfdenial #selfsufficiency #separation #spirit #worldliness
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A quotation from Bertrand Russell
In fact the whole antithesis between self and the rest of the world, which is implied in the doctrine of self-denial, disappears as soon as we have any genuine interest in persons or things outside ourselves. Through such interests a man comes to feel himself part of the stream of life, not a hard separate entity like a billiard-ball, which can have no relation with other such entities except that of collision.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Conquest of Happiness, Part 2, ch. 17 “The Happy Man” (1930)More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/819…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #body #engagement #externalities #interest #life #living #meaningoflife #relationship #self #selfabsorption #selfcenteredness #selfdenial #selfsufficiency #separation #spirit #worldliness
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A quotation from Bertrand Russell
In fact the whole antithesis between self and the rest of the world, which is implied in the doctrine of self-denial, disappears as soon as we have any genuine interest in persons or things outside ourselves. Through such interests a man comes to feel himself part of the stream of life, not a hard separate entity like a billiard-ball, which can have no relation with other such entities except that of collision.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Conquest of Happiness, Part 2, ch. 17 “The Happy Man” (1930)More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/819…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #body #engagement #externalities #interest #life #living #meaningoflife #relationship #self #selfabsorption #selfcenteredness #selfdenial #selfsufficiency #separation #spirit #worldliness
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A quotation from Bertrand Russell
In fact the whole antithesis between self and the rest of the world, which is implied in the doctrine of self-denial, disappears as soon as we have any genuine interest in persons or things outside ourselves. Through such interests a man comes to feel himself part of the stream of life, not a hard separate entity like a billiard-ball, which can have no relation with other such entities except that of collision.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Conquest of Happiness, Part 2, ch. 17 “The Happy Man” (1930)More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/819…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #body #engagement #externalities #interest #life #living #meaningoflife #relationship #self #selfabsorption #selfcenteredness #selfdenial #selfsufficiency #separation #spirit #worldliness
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A quotation from Mignon McLaughlin
Of course no one is so sensitive as you, but try to remember they think they are.
Mignon McLaughlin (1913-1983) American journalist and author
The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, ch. 4 (1966)More about this quote: wist.info/mclaughlin-mignon/80…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #migonmclaughlin #others #perspective #selfabsorption #selfcenteredness #selffocus #sensitivity
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A quotation from Mignon McLaughlin
Of course no one is so sensitive as you, but try to remember they think they are.
Mignon McLaughlin (1913-1983) American journalist and author
The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, ch. 4 (1966)More about this quote: wist.info/mclaughlin-mignon/80…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #migonmclaughlin #others #perspective #selfabsorption #selfcenteredness #selffocus #sensitivity
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Power multiplies flatterers, and flatterers multiply our delusions by hiding us from ourselves.
Charles Caleb "C. C." Colton (1780-1832) English cleric, writer, aphorist
Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Vol. 2, § 25 (1822)More about this quote: wist.info/colton-charles-caleb…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cccolton #asskissing #bootlicker #brownnose #coterie #deception #delusion #fawning #flatterers #flattery #lickspittle #power #selfabsorption #selfapproval #selfawareness #selfconfidence #selfdelusion #selfesteem #selfglorification #selfknowledge #selfregard #sycophant #toady #toadying #yesman
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A quotation from Ambrose Bierce
SELFISH, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Selfish,” The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)More about this quote: wist.info/bierce-ambrose/1057/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ambrosebierce #devilsdictionary #ego #inconsideration #selfabsorption #selfaggrandizement #selfcenteredness #selfishness
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A quotation from Ambrose Bierce
SELFISH, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Selfish,” The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)More about this quote: wist.info/bierce-ambrose/1057/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ambrosebierce #devilsdictionary #ego #inconsideration #selfabsorption #selfaggrandizement #selfcenteredness #selfishness
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A quotation from Ambrose Bierce
SELFISH, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Selfish,” The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)More about this quote: wist.info/bierce-ambrose/1057/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ambrosebierce #devilsdictionary #ego #inconsideration #selfabsorption #selfaggrandizement #selfcenteredness #selfishness
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A quotation from Ambrose Bierce
SELFISH, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Selfish,” The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)More about this quote: wist.info/bierce-ambrose/1057/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ambrosebierce #devilsdictionary #ego #inconsideration #selfabsorption #selfaggrandizement #selfcenteredness #selfishness
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The least pain in our little finger gives more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.
William Hazlitt (1778-1830) English writer
Essay (1829-10), “American Literature — Dr. Channing,” Edinburgh Review, Vol. 50, No. 99, Art. 7More info about this quote: wist.info/hazlitt-william/1423…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hazlitt #williamhazlitt #compassion #concern #discomfort #pain #perspective #pity #scale #selfabsorption #selfcenteredness #selffocus #selfimportance #selfpity #selfishness
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The least pain in our little finger gives more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.
William Hazlitt (1778-1830) English writer
Essay (1829-10), “American Literature — Dr. Channing,” Edinburgh Review, Vol. 50, No. 99, Art. 7More info about this quote: wist.info/hazlitt-william/1423…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hazlitt #williamhazlitt #compassion #concern #discomfort #pain #perspective #pity #scale #selfabsorption #selfcenteredness #selffocus #selfimportance #selfpity #selfishness
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The least pain in our little finger gives more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.
William Hazlitt (1778-1830) English writer
Essay (1829-10), “American Literature — Dr. Channing,” Edinburgh Review, Vol. 50, No. 99, Art. 7More info about this quote: wist.info/hazlitt-william/1423…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hazlitt #williamhazlitt #compassion #concern #discomfort #pain #perspective #pity #scale #selfabsorption #selfcenteredness #selffocus #selfimportance #selfpity #selfishness
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The least pain in our little finger gives more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.
William Hazlitt (1778-1830) English writer
Essay (1829-10), “American Literature — Dr. Channing,” Edinburgh Review, Vol. 50, No. 99, Art. 7More info about this quote: wist.info/hazlitt-william/1423…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hazlitt #williamhazlitt #compassion #concern #discomfort #pain #perspective #pity #scale #selfabsorption #selfcenteredness #selffocus #selfimportance #selfpity #selfishness
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A quotation from Bertrand Russell
When I speak of “the sinner”, I do not mean the man who commits sin: sins are committed by everyone or no one, according to our definition of the word. I mean the man who is absorbed in the consciousness of sin. This man is perpetually incurring his own disapproval, which, if he is religious, he interprets as the disapproval of God. He has an image of himself as he thinks he ought to be, which is in continual conflict with his knowledge of himself as he is.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch. 1 “What Makes People Unhappy?” (1930)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/russell-bertrand/758…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #BertrandRussell #divinejudgment #ideal #selfabsorption #selfapproval #selfcriticism #selfimage #sin #sinner
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A quotation from Bertrand Russell
I enjoy life; I might almost say that with every year that passes I enjoy it more. This is due partly to having discovered what were the things that I most desired, and having gradually acquired many of these things. Partly it is due to having successfully dismissed certain objects of desire — such as the acquisition of indubitable knowledge about something or other — as essentially unattainable. But very largely it is due to a diminishing preoccupation with myself. Like others who had a Puritan education, I had the habit of meditating on my sins, follies, and shortcomings. I seemed to myself — no doubt justly — a miserable specimen. Gradually I learned to be indifferent to myself and my deficiencies; I came to centre my attention increasingly upon external objects: the state of the world, various branches of knowledge, individuals for whom I felt affection.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch. 1 “What Makes People Unhappy?” (1930)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/russell-bertrand/755…
#quote #quotes #quotation #BertrandRussell #puritanism #acquisitions #attention #desire #enjoyment #externalities #focus #happiness #life #living #selfabsorption #selfcriticism #selfdeprecation #selfloathing
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This viral Subwoofer Cat video (2011) proves both the physical power of sonic vibration and the feline capacity for self-absorption
#subwoofer #cat #catlife #subwoofercat #vibration #physics #cats #physicality #grooming #selfabsorption #ignore #acoustics #cultureofsound #lowfrequency #soundwaves #pressurewave #spl #soundpressure #dontcare #soundbeyondmusic #viral #museumofportablesound