Quotes About Self

And God said love me, love them, and love it, and don't forget to love yourself.

If I was the only one I wouldn't be littler or bigger, would I? I'd be just me, wouldn't I?

To be too conscious is an illness — a real thoroughgoing illness.

To be too conscious is an illness. A real thorough going illness.

Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.

Self, renders it impossible to know Christ, when other loves and interests intervene, and breeds dissatisfaction with all else and makes that very self sad and weak. Christ absolute, lights the whole being with His love, and joy, and beauty, and shines on other loves to their sanctification, and so, the abnegation of self is self's highest development.

What you call the subconscious, is in my opinion the real human consciousness.

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.

will end with a summary of my conclusions, but putting them in a more personal way. I said at the beginning that anyone who defends his subject will find that he is defending himself;

Man has no individual i. But there are, instead, hundreds and thousands of separate small "i"s, very often entirely unknown to one another, never coming into contact, or, on the contrary, hostile to each other, mutually exclusive and incompatible. Each minute, each moment, man is saying or thinking, "i". And each time his i is different. just now it was a thought, now it is a desire, now a sensation, now another thought, and so on, endlessly. Man is a plurality. Man's name is legion.

Remember you come here having already understood the necessity of struggling with yourself — only with yourself. Therefore thank everyone who gives you the opportunity.

Knowledge can be acquired by a suitable and complete study, no matter what the starting point is. Only one must know how to 'learn.' What is nearest to us is man; and you are the nearest of all men to yourself. Begin with the study of yourself; remember the saying 'Know thyself.

Life is real only then, when "I am".

Essence is the truth in man; personality is the false.

The last madness I'll probably persist in is to believe myself a poet: it will be up to the critics to cure me.

un engourdissement nébuleux saisit notre pensée, et nous ne pouvons déterminer l'instant précis où le moi, sous une autre forme, continue l'œuvre de l'existence.

One of the fundamentals of understanding love is that love comes from within oneself rather than from someone else.

Only me, eh? Is that how you see yourself? Only you is worth a good deal more than you think.

He who excuses himself accuses himself.

I killed a woman in me: one I did not love.

To swear is to pray, to make an offering of your innermost self.

It is the same world, she thought, but I am different. Or is it a different world, but I am the same?

To be alive was to accept that your were fundamentally alone.