Quotes About Self-awareness

No subject posits itself spontaneously and at once as the inessential from the outset; it is not the Other who, defining itself as Other, defines the One; the Other is posited as Other by the One positing itself as One. But in order for the Other not to turn into the One, the Other has to submit to this foreign point of view.

I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!

I was still keenly aware as in my childhood of the inexplicable nature of my presence here on earth; where had I come from here; where was I going? I often thought about these things with a kind of stupefied horror and used to fill my diary with long self-communings

Wenigstens eine kleine Weile lang mußte ich, jedem Anspruch entrückt, in Frieden mit mir selbst sprechen können, ohne daß irgendjemand mich dabei unterbrach.

insano?lunun mutsuzlu?u tek bir ?eyden geliyor:bir odada oturup kalmay? bilmemekten!

What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in.)

Todas las mujeres se creen diferentes; todas piensan que ciertas cosas no pueden sucederles, y todas ellas se equivocan.

Ya había sentido eso antes, como esta noche, que su ser se disolvía en provecho de seres inaccesibles, pero nunca había visto con una lucidez tan perfecta su propio aniquilamiento.

Sin embargo, le pregunté si me encontraba inteligente. Sí, ciertamente, pero la inteligencia no es una facultad separada; cuando doy vueltas en mis obsesiones mi inteligencia ya no está disponible.

Avevo torto di pretendere che la vita si conformasse a un ideale stabilito in anticipo; stava a me mostrami all'altezza di ciò ch'essa mi portava.

Não sou o tipo de mulher a quem se mente. Orgulho imbecil. Todas as mulheres se julgam diferentes; todas pensam que certas coisas lhes não podem acontecer e todas elas se enganam.

Un giorno un uomo mi ha detto: esiste un solo bene, agire secondo la propria coscienza. Credo che avesse ragione, e che tutti gli sforzi che abbiamo la pretesa di fare per gli altri non servano a niente.

And sometimes I think myself sensible, and sometimes I accuse myself of cowardice. In fact I am defenseless because I have never supposed I had any rights. I expect a lot of the people I love - too much, perhaps. I expect a lot, and I even ask for it. But I do not know how to insist.

Das schimmste aber, wenn man ein Gefängnis aus unsichtbaren Mauern bewohnt, ist, dass man sich der Schranken nicht bewusst wird, die den Horizont versperren.

Es mío solamente aquello en lo que reconozco mi ser y no puedo reconocerlo sino ahí donde estoy comprometido; para que un objeto me pertenezca, es preciso que haya sido fundado por mí: no es totalmente mío si no lo he fundado en su totalidad. La única realidad que me pertenece enteramente es pues, mi acto.

Para saber lo que es mío, es necesario saber lo que hago verdaderamente.

of course, from birth to puberty the little girl grew up, but she never felt growth

the astonishing thing the thing I like is that I should have admitted it. No compromise no act: that proper little woman was me all right. I'm clean I'm straight I don't join in any act: that makes them mad they hate being seen through they want you to believe the stuff they hand out or at least pretend to.

To exist genuinely is not to deny this spontaneous movement of my transcendence, but only to refuse to lose myself in it.

I would sometimes tell myself, fearfully but proudly, that I was mad: it's a very short step between utter loneliness and madness.

All women think they are different; they all think there are some things that will never happen to them; and they are all wrong.

only the subject can justify his own existence; no external subject, no object, can bring him salvation from the outside. He can not be regarded as a nothing, since the consciousness of all things is within him.

She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.

I am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.