Quotes About Self

The Florentines of the generation of 1402, men like Bruni and Alberti, had wanted to use the rediscovery of the ancient Greeks and Romans to change the world. Marsilio Ficino wanted to use it to change the self.

but from their regard to their own interest.

In fact, in eighteenth-century English, the language of Kames's works, property meant the same as propriety: those things that are proper to me, and to me alone. To Kames and his followers, including Hume and Adam Smith, to own things is in fact to own myself. Property makes me a whole and complete human being.

to own things is in fact to own myself. Property makes me a whole and complete human being.

Schaamteloos heb ik mij nu eenmaal altijd het veiligst gevoeld.

The adept could, in truth, change those who were obnoxious to him into harmless and unimportant shapes, not as in the letter of the old stories, by transforming the enemy, but by transforming himself. The magician puts men below him by going up higher, as one looks down on a mountain city from a loftier crag.

Once, as a teenager, I had believed that people could change themselves. Finally I realized that all one could ever hope was understanding one's filthy self better.

I am not a prisoner of my reason. - Bad Blood

Il n'y a personne ici et il y a qeulqu'un: je ne voudrais pas répandre mon trésor.

Arthur Rimbaud

It is wrong to say: I think. One should say: I am thought.

We all act parts, and wise is he who knows it.

It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.

Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.

En cuestiones de arte, el trabajo original del yo tiene más importancia social que la filantropía.

Después de todo, qué sería de nosotros sin nosotros mismos, pensaba. La vida es un naufragio, y cada uno echa a nadar como puede.

la libertad del hombre no es sino la necesidad contenida en su interior.

A fin de cuentas, por mucho que nuble, la sombra siempre termina despuntando cosida a los pies de uno. Y nadie puede escapar de su propia sobra.

En Charvet, nuestros clientes se llaman como les parece oportuno.

Hay hombres cuya lealtad hacia ellos mismos, a lo que son o creen ser, los hace peligrosos... A ésos resulta imposible dominarles el corazón, incluso aunque compres su vida.

por mucho que nuble, la sombra siempre termina despuntando cosida a los pies de uno. Y nadie puede escapar de su propia sombra.

For generations, the Gandhi family has been more spiritual than religious. This may seem to be a contradiction, but it is not. The Gandhis have drawn a clear distinction between two terms. Spirituality refers to the aspiration of our true nature, and ultimate realization of the Self. Religion, on the other hand, as in many cases come to mean a dogmatic observance of rituals that one practices at specified times of the day or week.

There is a war that makes us adore our conquerors and despise ourselves.

When this tathagatagarbha is freed from all adventitious stains of delusion without any remainder, these stains having been removed by means of the discriminative wisdom realizing the non-existence of a self, this is enlightenment, the very essence of realization.