Quotes About Self

Other people's heads are too wretched a place for true happiness to have its seat.

No one reveals himself as he is; we all wear a mask and play a role. - On Psychology

The happiness we receive from ourselves is greater than that which we obtain from our surroundings[1]

That which knows all things and is known by none is the subject.

Astrology provides a brilliant proof of the miserable subjectivity of human beings, as a result of which they relate everything to themselves and go from every thought in a straight line immediately back to themselves. It relates the course of the great celestial bodies to the pathetic I, as it also connects the comets in the sky with earthly quarrels and shabby tricks.

No doubt, when modesty was made a virtue, it was a very advantageous thing for the fools; for everybody is expected to speak of himself as if he were one.

Think what you're doing! When you say I, I, I want to exist, it is not you alone that says this. Everything says it, absolutely everything that has the faintest trace of consciousness. It follows, then, that this desire of yours is just the part of you that is not individual - the part that is common to all things without distinction.

Since everything which exists or happens for a man exists only in his consciousness and happens for it alone, the most essential thing for a man is the constitution of this consciousness, which is in most cases far more important than the circumstances which go to form its contents.

Phil. Look what you are doing! When you say, I—I—I want to exist you alone do not say this, but everything, absolutely everything, that has only a vestige of consciousness. Consequently this desire of yours is just that which is not individual but which is common to all without distinction.

We all feel that we are something other than a being which someone once created out of nothing: from this arises the confidence that, while death may be able to end our life, it cannot end our existence.

Un hombre puede ser él mismo mientras esté solo; si no ama la soledad, no amará la libertad; porque sólo cuando se está solo se es realmente libre.

It is very necessary that a man should be apprised early in life that it is a masquerade in which he finds himself.

Women always take things personally and their mind is designed to achieve personal ends.

En büyük mutluluk, kiÅŸiliktir.

The objective half of life and reality is in the hand of fate, and accordingly takes various forms in different cases: the subjective half is ourself, and in essentials it always remains the same.

Es difícil encontrar la felicidad dentro de uno mismo, pero es imposible encontrarla en otro lugar.

The happiness we receive from ourselves is greater than that which we obtain from our surroundings.

Svetlo koje ?ovek upali za sebe svetli kasnije i drugima.

It may not be dying we fear so much, but the diminished self.

Broyard concludes that "it may not be dying we fear so much, but the diminished self

Reflection on memory makes the self an object of wonder—an astonishment previously reserved for the contemplation of the world.

How quickly self rises to the surface, and the instrument is ready to believe he is something more than an instrument! How sadly easy it is to make of the very service God entrusts us with a pedestal on which to display ourselves. But God will not share His glory with another, and therefore does He hide those who may be tempted to take some of it unto themselves. It is only by retiring from public view and getting alone with God that we can learn our own nothingness.

Destroying us. You are constructing us. It's yourselves that you are destroying.

Dear Doctor, If you like you can change every inch of me. I'm just a story.