Quotes About Self

solipsism. According to solipsism, reality exists only inside

Only...ever...you.

You are magnificent because you are so uniquely you

That man needs to build a bridge to get over himself.

Of Myself and of Death' (pp. 287–300).

I am a living label. My name is Labelfeld not Lagerfeld.

As individuals express their life, so they are.

Man makes religion, religion does not make man. Religion is indeed man's self-consciousness and self-awareness as long as he has not found his feet in the universe.

The more of himself man attributes to God, the less he has left in himself.

What is certain is that I myself am not a Marxist

Does the brain control you or are you controlling the brain?

How would I know which one I was?

The belief in an independently existent self is a mistaken perception with serious consequences, for all afflictions are rooted in a fundamental misconception about the nature of the self. Grasping at the mistaken perceptions of oneself and other phenomena leads to constant frustrations, anxieties, and unhappiness. Understanding the illusory nature of the self allows one to experience things 'as they are,' without interference from conceptual constructs.

The illusory self, which exists conventionally and dependently, on the basis of its component parts, simply ceases to exist when those parts are rent asunder.

The will to power, the force of desire, appears as an insensitive urge to dominate. But several points in Nietzsche's work speak against such a reading. The "self" includes the desire above all for self-overcoming. It is our own limits we most seek to break.

I don't think I'm nuts, though, and I don't think you do, either, but you have to make up your own mind. Nothing works if you don't start there.

I am mad, I think. I am mad therefore I think. I am mad therefore I think I am.

I am a jewel. I am a drop of blood. I am Ruby Lennox!

In my marriages, I'd lost parts of who I was because I was trying to mold myself into what I thought a man wanted me to be.

Have I done aught of value to my fellow-men? Then have I done much for myself.

Desire is the uneasiness a man finds in himself upon the absence of anything whose present enjoyment carries the idea of delight with it.

We live in a hemisphere whose own revolution has given birth to the most powerful force of the modern age; the search for freedom and self fulfillment of man.

The form most contradictory to human life that can appear among the human species is the "self-satisfied man."

Only as an individual can man become a philosopher.