Quotes About Self

when man determined to destroy himself he picked the was of shall and finding only why smashed it into because.

All men think that all men are mortal but themselves.

That in the human plan nothing is worth the making if it does not make the man.

Man creates both his god and his devil in his own image. His god is himself at his best, and his devil himself at his worst.

Marriage is not for me. I tell you that I am Blank Verse. I am talent, and I do not rhyme with Love. I am talent and I do not rhyme with man.

man ... thinks of himself as a creator instead of a user, and this delusion is robbing him, not only of his natural heritage, but perhaps of his future.

Nobody knows what's in him until he tries to pull it out. If there's nothing, or very little, the shock can kill a man.

A man does not exist until he is drunk.

Man shouldn't be able to see his own face. That's what's most terrible. Nature gave him the possibility of not seeing it, as well as the incapacity of not seeing his own eyes.

All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man.

The gopis seek Krishna, another part of themselves that create ecstasy. The man seeks the woman, the woman seeks the man. The Tantric Buddhist seeks annihilation of the ego.

Denn was ist Freiheit? Dasz man den Willen zur Selbstverantwortlichkeit hat.

In morality, man treats himself not as individuum but as dividuum.

Only with the ultimate knowledge of all things will man have come to know himself. For things are but the boundaries of man.

I was a great many far cries from myself.

God creates the animals, man creates himself.

A man's own self is the last person to believe in him, and is harder to cheat than the rest of the world.

A man is in bondage to whatever he cannot part with that is less than himself.

It was not the man's brain that was speaking; it was his larynx.

A man is more than one being in his life. If the last persists, why not the first? If there be a hereafter for his age, why not for his youth?

The outer prisons are made by the community to contain those who have dared break its laws. The inner prisons each man makes for himself because of what he feels are his transgressions.

Eventually, the Gray Man thought, if he resisted using it for long enough, he himself might forget his own name, and became someone else entirely.

The man who fears man falls from the estate of man. Fear God alone.

Men are good. But they are poor victims making themselves miserable under the false belief that they are doing good.