Quotes About Self

The loss of the self has increased the necessity to conform, for it results in a profound doubt of one's own identity.

This loss of identity then makes it still more imperative to conform; it means that one can be sure of oneself only if one lives up to the expectations of others.

The person who gives up his individual self and becomes an automaton, identical with millions of other automatons around him, need not feel alone and anxious any more. But the price he pays, however, is high; it is the loss of his self.

If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?

Man is not a subject opposing the world in order to transform it; he is in the world making his being in the world the occasion for constant self-transformation

that man, the more he gains freedom in the sense of emerging from the original oneness with man and nature and the more he becomes an "individual," has no choice but to unite himself with the world in the spontaneity of love and productive work or else to seek a kind of security by such ties with the world as destroy his freedom and the integrity of his individual self.9

The limits of the growth of individuation and self are set partly by individual conditions, but essentially by social conditions

Tarih hiçbir ÅŸey deÄŸildir ve hiçbir ÅŸey yapmaz. Bir ÅŸey olan ve yapan, insand?r.

La meta del socialismo era la individualidad y no la uniformidad; la liberación de las ataduras económicas, no la realización de los objetivos materiales como primordial preocupación de la vida. Su principio era que cada ser humano es un fin en sí mismo, y jamás debe de ser el medio de otro hombre.

Just as man transforms the world around him, so he transforms himself in the process of history. He is his own creation, as it were. But just as he can only transform and modify the natural materials around him according to their nature, so he can only transform and modify himself according to his own nature. What man does in the process of history is to develop this potential, and to transform it according to its own possibilities.

The more primitive a man is the better he believes himself to be.

Odejít není vždy tak snadné, zvláÅ¡Å¥ když ?lovÄ›k s sebou musí vzít i své vlastní já.

Nachts ist man das, was man eigentlich sein soll; nicht das, was man geworden ist.

Es tevi ?oti m?lu," sac?ju. "Es m?lu tevi un šo mirkli, un vasaru, kas dr?z paies, un šo ainavu, un š?s atvadas, un pirmoreiz sav? m?ž? — sevi pašu, jo esmu k? spogulis, kur? tu spogu?ojies, un t? es tevi divk?rt ieg?stu. Lai sv?t?ts šis vakars un š? stunda!

Lepe su te žene koje nas spre?avaju u tome da postanemo polubogovi, prave?i od nas o?eve porodica, gra?ane, ljude koji zara?uju novac, pošto su nas pre toga uhvatile iluzijom da nas ?ine bogovima.

Wir sind überflüssig für uns selbst

Vai cilv?ks dz?vo no iekšas uz ?ru vai no ?rpuses uz iekšu?

He could look at himself in a mirror and tell himself that he was one of the most powerful and dangerous men in the world... He could feel that he was a god in disguise.

Je m'appelle Erik Satie comme tout le monde.

Who do you become when you've lost sight of who you are but the false you isn't one you can pretend to be anymore?

There is a danger when you leave the past behind, and reinvent your life, that at some point you'll look at yourself, and no longer recognize who you see.

a colorless chap who's never found himself because there isn't anything to find.

Man is an animal who has to live in a lie in order to live at all.

The point is that if the love object is divine perfection, then one's own self is elevated by joining one's destiny to it.