Quotes About Self

But 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.

Wer seine eigene Freiheit sichern will, muss selbst seinen Feind vor Unterdrückung schützen.

it is repugnant to the principles of representative government that a body should give power to itself.

Let therefore every man, that, appealing to his own heart, feels the least spark of virtue or freedom there, think that it is an honor which he owes himself, and a duty which he owes his country, to bear arms.

Existence precedes essence. What you are (your essence) is the result of your choices (your existence) rather than the reverse. Essence is not destiny. You are what you make yourself to be.

While the supreme value of existentialist thought is commonly acknowledged to be freedom, its primary virtue is authenticity.

existentialism represents a long tradition in the history of philosophy in the West, extending back at least to Socrates (469–399 bc). This is the practice of philosophy as 'care of the self' (epimeleia heautou). Its focus is on the proper way of acting rather than on an abstract set of theoretical truths.

Words are not simply an expression of the self; they help to create the self. In struggling to say what we are, we become what we say.

In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.

There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography.

Some people say they haven't yet found themselves. But the self is not something one finds; it is something one

The difference between the two kinds of death, in other words, is essentially a difference of perspective. From the perspective of those already crucified in Christ, the destruction of the false self is clearly a good thing; it is liberation or salvation itself. But from the perspective of those who continue to cling to the false self, its destruction will be a fearsome thing; it will seem like the very destruction of themselves.

Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love.

But it is an happy loss to lose oneself in admiration at one's own Felicity: and to find GOD in exchange for oneself: Which we then do when we see Him in His Gifts, and adore His Glory.

Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love." — Thomas Traherne

Because I am what I am, I may be what I will to be. My individuality is one of the modes in which the Infinite expresses itself, and therefore I am myself that very power which I find to be the innermost within of all things.

We cannot think into manifestation a different sort of life to that which we realise in ourselves.

All that hinders the individual from exercising the full power of the Infinite for any purpose whatever is his lack of faith, his inability to realise to the full the stupendous truth that he himself is the very power which he seeks.

Nothin' wrong with sentiment, if it's what you truly feel. That's the trouble with folks, they're afraid to show what's inside 'em.

Great was the work of creation, but greater was the work of redemption. Great wisdom was seen in making us—but more miraculous wisdom in saving us. Great power was seen in bringing us out of nothing—but greater power in helping us when we were worse than nothing. (...) In the creation, God gave us ourselves; in the redemption, He gave us Himself.

He had lost that privilege of simple nature, the dissociation of love and pleasure. Pleasure was no longer as simple as eating; it was being complicated by love. Now was beginning that crazy loss of one's self, that neglect of everything but one's dramatic thoughts about the beloved, that feverish inner life all turning upon the [loved one].

E cu neputin?? ca pân? la urm? s? nu ajungi cum crede lumea c? eÅŸti.

Puoi dirti vivo solo nei momenti in cui il tuo cuore vede i tesori che possiedi.

If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good