Quotes About Self

strange evolution, that people have come to believe that we are its greatest achievement when really we're just a collection of cells overrating themselves

I know what you're going to say! 'They are men, and men should be free.' A free man is dangerous to himself and everyone else. Freedom should be left to those who can put it to good use.

The fruits of all our labors have left us as we started. To grow without is not to grow within.

The ultimate consequence of misology is a kind of self-destruction in which what is destroyed is that aspect of the self represented by active reason

The Socratic-Platonic psychê, in other words, is none other than the literate intellect, that part of the self that is born and strengthened in relation to the written letters.

All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.

You can fool everyone else, but you can't fool your own mind.

Again he thought of his own losses, and he wondered why it was that the things a person had lost— or might lose— defined him more than the things he yet possessed.

Who can explain just how he became the person he is? It does not happen this day or that one. It is a gradual evolution that happens largely unheralded. He simply was who he now was.

The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin.

He said we had become redundant to ourselves

She had long been aware that her organic being produced all the physical expressions of emotion, while she herself felt nothing. It was a paradox.

Consider that if artist equals self, then when (inevitably) you make flawed art, you are a flawed person, and when (worse yet) you make no art, you are no person at all!

Codependency is when we look outside of ourselves to meet a need that only God Himself can meet in our heart. This is the primary strategy of political

So what Epictetus was telling his students was that there can be no such thing as being the "victim" of another. You can only be a "victim" of yourself. It's all in how you discipline your mind. Who

The Self is the ultimate authority and our only true support.

Happiness is the knowledge that one is more powerful than all the objects in the world and all the thoughts in one's own mind.

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.

It was as if in exploring each other, each of them discovered something of himself he had not yet learned to love.

That favorite subject, Myself.

Time changes all things and cultivates even in herself an appreciation of irony, and, therefore, why shouldn't I have changed a trifle?

Now but before a fool's opinion of himself," the brown man cried, "the Gods are powerless. Oh, yes, and envious, too!

The things that scare you the most are the things that bring you closer to who you're meant to be.