Quotes About Self

I don't want to be mistaken for anyone?so I mustn't mistake myself.

Rather know nothing than half-know many things! Rather be a fool on one's own account than a wise man in the opinion of others!

Aristotle says that in order to live alone one must either be an animal or a god. The third alternative is lacking. A man must be both; a philosopher.

Dare only to believe in yourselves- in yourselves and in your inward parts! He who does not believe in himself always lies.

Behind your thoughts and feelings, my brother, there is a mighty lord, an unknown sage - his name is self; he dwells in your body, he is your body. There is more reason in your body than in your best wisdom.

Whoever does not believe himself always lies.

We find other people's vanity contrary to our taste only when it is contrary to our vanity.

Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves.

He who maketh no secret of himself shocketh; so much reason have ye to fear nakedness! Aye, if ye were Gods, ye could then be ashamed of clothing!

I live in my own light, I drink back into myself the flames that break from me

There are no egoistic or unegoistic actions: both concepts are psychological absurdities.

Eu sou vários! Há multidões em mim. Na mesa de minha alma sentam-se muitos, e eu sou todos eles. Há um velho, uma criança, um sábio, um tolo. Você nunca saberá com quem está sentado ou quanto tempo permanecerá com cada um de mim. Mas prometo que, se nos sentarmos à mesa, nesse ritual sagrado eu lhe entregarei ao menos um dos tantos que sou, e correrei os riscos de estarmos juntos no mesmo plano.

Verily, a polluted stream is man. One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.

Thinking of yourself as a destiny, not wanting to be 'other' than you are -that is under such circumstances the highest wisdom.

Oh, my friends, that your self be in your deed as the mother is in her child - let that be your word concerning virtue!

Die Forderung, geliebt zu werden, ist die größte der Anmaßungen.

We are always only in our own company.

I transform myself to fast: my today refutes my yesterday.

The labyrinthine man never seeks the truth but always and only his Ariadne.

Behind your thoughts and feelings, my brother, there is a mighty lord, an unknown sage- it is called Self; it dwells in your body, it is your body.

Re-create yourselves: and let this be your best creation.

dearest—every person is a prison and also a recess.

Of necessity we remain strangers to ourselves, we understand ourselves not, in ourselves we are bound to be mistaken, for of us holds good to all eternity the motto, "Each one is the farthest away from himself"—as far as ourselves are concerned we are not "knowers.

Only when he has attained a final knowledge of all things will man have come to know himself. For things are only the boundaries of man.