Oneself Quotes

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far.

One should make morals judgements for oneself.

Only by taking responsibility for oneself, to the greatest extent possible, can one ever be free, and only a free person can make responsible choices - between right and wrong, saving and spending, giving or taking.

As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.

When you are not treated seriously, you develop comically. Its sense of oneself is so fractured and fragile that it's like the picked-on kid who has to become funny.

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.

Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.

How one can live without being able to judge oneself, criticize what one has accomplished, and still enjoy what one does, is unimaginable to me.

To live is to feel oneself lost.

One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.

As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.

Since I was young, the artistic expression that fashion embodies has inspired me. It's a way to communicate oneself.

It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.

Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.

The frontiers of knowledge in the various fields of our subject are expanding at such a rate that, work as hard as one can, one finds oneself further and further away from an understanding of the whole.

What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself is worth neither more nor less than what one allows others to find.

The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.

To congratulate oneself on one's warm commitment to the environment, or to peace, or to the oppressed, and think no more is a profound moral fault.

Never say never, but the thought of electively cutting oneself is beyond my grasp, and I also object to it politically. Denying the lines on our faces makes a comment about age and wisdom I don't care to make.

Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

There are things one must do for oneself.

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.

To throw oneself to the side of the oppressed is the only dignified thing to do in life.

It is like visiting one's funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, this wild darkness, which is not only unknown but which one cannot enter as oneself.

I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some sort of Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer.

Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.

To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing.