Self Quotes
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The self is a relation which relates itself to its own self, or it is that in the relation that the relation relates itself to its own self; the self is not the relation but that the relation relates itself to its own self.
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How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
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Many people who excel are self-taught.
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No matter what you tell me, no matter how legitimate your reasons, I can never just forget about you, I can never push the years we spent together out of my mind. I can't do it because it really happened, they are part of my life, and there is no way I can just erase them. That would be the same as erasing my own self.
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I want to embrace my full self, as natural as I can be.
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A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.
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Somebody once told me that self-punishment is worse than any other punishment.
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Being an atheist is like not owning a TV – completely rational, but best kept to one's self.
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I cannot express the uneasiness caused in me by this intrusion of mystery and beauty into a room I had at last filled with myself to the point of paying no more attention to the room than to that self. The anesthetizing influence of habit having ceased, I would begin to have thoughts, and feelings, and they are such sad things.
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Shadows are where magic comes from. Your dark and dancing self, slipping behind and ahead and around, never quite looking at the sun.
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The best discipline, maybe the only discipline that really works, is self- discipline.
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Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the absence of self.
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One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error.
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True friendship is self-love at second-hand.
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I think the wish to disassociate from the cult of self is a good human impulse
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Friendship is strengthened by...that which ever so lightly elevates us from the trough of self-concern and self-devotion.
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You don't want to see things as they are because your ego would have to admit that things outside yourself are necessary for the self to be. You still have fun, as most people do, from manipulating things.
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When one becomes for an instant one's former self, that is to say different from what one has been for some time past, one's sensibility, being no longer dulled by habit, receives from the slightest stimulus vivid impressions which make everything that has preceded them fade into insignificance, impressions to which, because of their intensity, we attach ourselves with the momentary enthusiasm of a drunkard.
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Do not fear to be your true self, for everything you want, wants you.
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I think it's fair to say we're both in the business of self-obliteration through music.
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The blessed spirits must be sought within the self which is common to all
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Every time you have a major breakthrough in self-knowledge, and see the way the divine works within your own psyche, external events, and interior experiences of the divine, you are transformed in some degree.
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It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world.
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Man knows himself only insofar as he knows the world, becoming aware of it if only within himself, and of himself self only within it. Each new subject, well observed, opens up within us a new organ of thought.
