Quotes About Self

The final mystery is oneself.

To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor

To be in love is to surpass one's self.

In literature mere egotism is delightful.

For the recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses.  It has led Individualism entirely astray.  It has made gain not growth its aim.  So that man thought that the important thing was to have, and did not know that the important thing is to be.  The true perfection of man lies, not in what man has, but in what man is.

The mutilation of the savage has its tragic survival in the self-denial that mars our lives.

In love, one always begins in deceiving oneself, and one always ends in deceiving others.

To be good is to be in harmony with ones self. Discord is to be forces to be in harmony with others.

One should not look at anything. Neither at things, nor at people should one look. Only in mirrors is it well to look, for mirrors do but show us masks.

Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.

What has the actual lapse of time got to do with it? It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour.

To be good is to be in harmony with oneself, He replied, touching the thin stem of his glass with his pale, fine-pointed fingers. Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others. One's own life-that is the important thing. As for the lives of ones's neighbors, if one wishes to be a prig or a Puritan, one can flaunt one's moral views about them, but they are not one's concern.

But the bravest man amongst us is afraid of himself.

To be good is to be in harmony with one's self. Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others.

It would be unfair to expect people to be as remarkable as oneself.

La insinceridad es un método con que multiplicar nuestras personalidades

They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one's self. Of course, they are charitable. They feed the hungry and clothe the beggar. But their own souls starve, and are naked. Courage has gone out of our race. Perhaps we never really had it. The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion--these are the two things that govern us.

Quien verdaderamente abriga en sí el amor, encuentra amor para consigo.

Cada um de nós tem em si o Céu e o Inferno

What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities.

To be in love is to surpass one's self.

Art, even the art of fullest scope and widest vision, can never really show us the external world. All that it shows us is our own soul, the one world of which we have any real cognisance. And the soul itself, the soul of each one of us, is to each one of us a mystery. It hides in the dark and broods, and consciousness cannot tell us of its workings. Consciousness, indeed, is quite inadequate to explain the contents of personality. It is Art, and Art only, that reveals us to ourselves.

To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour.