Quotes About Self

I avoid literature whenever possible, because whenever possible I avoid myself...

Self is the only oil that makes the chariot-wheels of the hypocrite move in all religious concerns.

He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself.

Education is mostly about institutions and getting tickets stamped; learning is what we do for ourselves. When we're lucky, they go together. If I had to choose, I'd take learning.

Be not a slave of words.

Enjoy things which are pleasant; that is not the evil: it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.

You may take my purse; but I cannot have my moral Self annihilated. The purse is any Highwayman's who might meet me with a loaded pistol: but the Self is mine and God my Maker's; it is not yours; and I will resist you to the death, and revolt against you ...

Fool! The Ideal is in thyself, the impediment too is in thyself: thy Condition is but the stuff thou art to shape that same Ideal out of: what matters whether such stuff be of this sort or that, so the Form thou give it be heroic, be poetic? O thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the Actual, and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule and create, know this of a truth: the thing thou seekest is already with thee, 'here or nowhere,' couldst thou only see!

Sartre'?n "Varolu? özden önce gelir" deyi?i insanlar?n, mesela bir elbise ask?s?n?n ki gibi önceden belirlenmi? bir özü bulunmad??? anlam?na gelir. Yani bizler belirlenmemi?izdir ve kendimizi yeniden yaratmakta özgürüzdür.

Kendimizi sadece sabit kimlikli nesneler olarak görürsek Olmay? b?rak?r?z. Ve kendimizi nesneler olarak görmenin yollar?ndan biri toplumsal rollerle özde?le?mektir. Bu kimliklenmeye Sartre mauvaise foi, yani kötü inanç der.

I am not who you think I am; I am not who I think I am; I am who I think you think I am.

However near and dear to you may be your wife, children, friends, they are not you; they are outside of you.

After I retire, I have my own vision, which is not connected to the state of Israel. It's about me, living near the sea, and maybe writing something about the past.

I think it's nearly impossible to write something fictional without having it be about yourself in some way or another.

From my own being, and from the dependency I find in myself and my ideas, I do, by an act of reason, necessarily infer the existence of a God, and of all created things in the mind of God.

Your mind, which is yourself, can be likened to a house. The first necessary move then, is to rid that house of all but furnishings essential to success.

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.

Of necessity, the autobiographical self is not just about one individual but about all the others that an individual interacts with. Of necessity, it incorporates the culture in which the interactions took place.

I needed to be myself and find my own identity.

I love to be the center of attention. My oversized ego craves it and needs it.

Every year I tell myself that I'm not going to read any reviews and then I do. We're all human and when I read something negative it hurts. I think when you write it's part of the game, you're going to get some good reviews and some bad reviews and that's how it goes. I don't write for the reviews.

When I used to sit in the office with Jay Z and L.A. Reid... we would negotiate back and forth and discuss music. You're sitting in front of someone for hours. It's all about being passionate. Everything begins with yourself.

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.