Quotes About Self

In gods and godhead only he can truly believe who himself is godlike.

I am the leading strings of the ego and the prompter of its concepts.

Convictions are prisons.

Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.

Be careful when you cast out your demons that you don't throw away the best of yourself.

I am one thing, my writings are another.

I change too quickly: my today refutes my yesterday. When I ascend I often jump over steps, and no step forgives me that.

You say 'I' and you are proud of this word. But greater than this- although you will not believe in it - is your body and its great intelligence, which does not say 'I' but performs 'I'.

He who obeys, does not listen to himself!

Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.

But I need solitude--which is to say, recovery, return to myself, the breath of a free, light, playful air.

I overcame myself, the sufferer; I carried my own ashes to the mountains; I invented a brighter flame for myself.

Resentment, born of weakness, harms no one more than the weak person himself.

It is the evening that questions thus from within me.

For one thing is needful: that a human being should attain satisfaction with himself, whether it be by means of this or that poetry or art; only then is a human being at all tolerable to behold. Whoever is dissatisfied with himself is constantly ready for revenge, and we others will be his victims, if only by having to endure his ugly sight.

There is a false saying, 'Whoever cannot save himself - how can he save others?' But if I have the key to your chains, why should your and my lock be the same.

I and me are always too deeply in conversation.

Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art.

Whatever they may think and say about their egoism, the great majority nonetheless do nothing for their ego their whole life long: what they do is done for the phantom of their ego which has formed itself in the heads of those around them and has been communicated to them.

A virtue must be our invention; it must spring out of our personal need and defence.

The belly is the reason why man does not mistake himself for a god.

They fear their higher self, because when it speaks, it speaks demandingly.