Crossword-Solution: SELFNESS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Selfness | n. | Selfishness. |
We have 2 clues for the answer “SELFNESS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| egotism | 23 answers |
| Individuality | 54 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EETAR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SELFNESS (5)
Everyone is born nearer to God than to any ancestor, and it rests with him to cultivate either the _godness_ or the _selfness_ in him, his original or his mere ancestral nature.
This specific quality, or selfness, of an animal pervades every drop of its blood, so that the blood relationship of the different forms may be thus tested, where chemistry is incompetent to show agreement or antagonism.
Behold the face of Ludwig Beethoven--is there not something Titanic about it? What selfness, what will, what resolve, what power! And those tear-stained eyes--have they not seen sights of which no tongue can tell, nor tongue make plain? His life of solitude helped foster the independence of his nature, and kept his mind clear and free from all the idle gossip of the rabble.
The "cockel-shells and pebble-stones" must be left, and one finite thing after another must be dropped, and finally "all that thou callest I, all that self ness, all that propriety that thou hast taken to thyself, whatsoever creates in us Iness and selfness, must be brought to nothing."[35] If we would hear God, we must still the noises within ourselves.
Yet Christ recognized selfness as a principle most proper and praiseworthy and one to be used as the basis and measure of all moral worth.
Quotes with SELFNESS (1)
... by the time we understand the pattern we are in, the definition we are making for ourselves, it's too late to break out of the box. We can only live in terms of the definition, like the prisoner in the cage in which he cannot lie or stand or sit, hung up in justice to be viewed by the populace. Yet the definition we have made of ourselves is ourselves. To break out of it, we must make a new self. But how can the self make a new self when the selfness which it is, is the o…