Quotes About Self

The destiny of man is an individualistic destiny.

I may not be a human, but I am a man.

So long as you "have" yourself, have yourself as an object, your experience of man is only as of a thing among things.

There's a victory and defeat-the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats-which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

The brain does not make the man; the man makes the brain.

Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.

The instrument through which you see God is your whole self. And if a man's self is not kept clean and bright, his glimpse of God will be blurred

Men rarely if ever dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.

Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

First, a man is created in his own image, and only afterwards in the image of God.

Man is confronted with two obvious facts: The existence of the world in which he lives; and the existence of psychic life in himself.

The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.

All money represents theft… To steal from the rich is a sacred and religious act. While looting, a man to his own self is true.

Every man is the painter and the sculptor of his own life.

God does not redeem the personal man by death. He redeems himself by freeing himself from the personality of man.

I never met another man I'd rather be. And even if that's a delusion, it's a lucky one.

Each man must have his I; it is more necessary to him than bread.

How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man's self to himself!

The myth of the self-made man, has to be profoundly hypocritical: it is the self-serving demonstration that a lie is the truth

And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can.

It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the classes where it is least harsh.

Man cannot live without a continuous confidence in something indestructible within himself.

It is not truth, justice, liberty, that men seek; they seek only themselves. - And oh, that they knew how to seek themselves aright!

What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of nature and the world, he feels himself to be man!