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Each of the four principals does a song or dance number denoting his or her folly: Buddy's is self-hatred; Sally's, being in love with love; Phyllis', a blurred identity; Ben's, self-proving quests, no satisfying goals.

From Time Magazine Archive

Through thought and self-proving, I believe that in the end I shall help you best.

From The Case of Richard Meynell by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

The one, the self-proving, the good which is the higher sphere of dialectic, is the perfect truth to which all things ascend, and in which they finally repose.

From The Republic by Jowett, Benjamin

This self-proving unity or idea of good is a mere vision of which no distinct explanation can be given, relative only to a particular stage in Greek philosophy.

From The Republic by Jowett, Benjamin

Mr. Arnold has justly observed that this self-justifying, self-proving purity of style, is commoner in ancient literature than in modern literature, and also that Shakespeare is not a great or an unmixed example of it.

From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Jones, Edmund David