Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
George Santayana
The attitude of independence toward a constructed language which all national speakers must adopt is really a great advantage, because it tends to... →
Edward Sapir
I have learned to have more faith in the scientist than he does in himself.
David Sarnoff
No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.
May Sarton
Christ himself wrote nothing, but furnished endless material for books and songs of gratitude and praise.
Philip Schaff
By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else.
Solomon Schechter
I'm much better informed than Mr. Clarke ever was about the nature of the intelligence that was available again Osama bin Laden and which was... →
Michael Scheuer
Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one... →
God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?