Quotes about self
self humanity overcoming
My humanity is a constant self-overcoming. Friedrich Nietzsche
self despair moral
Subordination to morality can be slavish or vain or self- interested or resigned or gloomily enthusiastic or thoughtless or an act of despair, just as subordination to a prince can be: in itself it is nothing moral.
self lust want
Lust and self-mutilation are closely related impulses. There are also self-mutilators among knowers: they do not want to be creators under any circumstances.
self ill-treatment profound
To those human beings who are of any concern to me, I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill treatment, indignities, profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, and the wretchedness of the vanquished.
self nevertheless fetters
Many a one cannot loosen his own fetters, but is nevertheless his friend's emancipator.
self order luxury
How much rationality and higher protection there is in such self-deception, and how much falseness I still require in order to allow myself again and again the luxury of my sincerity.
selfish work men
Nothing makes a man so selfish as work. George Bernard Shaw
selfish work hero
I am giving you examples of the fact that this creature man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero. . . . I tell you, gentlemen, if you can shew a man a piece of what he now calls God's work to do, and what he will later call by many new names, you can make him entirely reckless of the consequences to himself personally.
selfish principles justified
Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that it provides selfish motives for doing good, and that human beings will do nothing except for selfish motives
self belief force
Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
selfish men political
It's usually pointed out that women are not fit for political power, and ought not to be trusted with a vote because they are politically ignorant, socially prejudiced, narrow-minded, and selfish. True enough, but precisely the same is true of men!
self denial virtue
Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.
self pygmalion class
I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.
self self-control quality
Self-control is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.
self-confidence men devil
It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.
selfish true-joy long
This is the true joy in life: Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
self arms looks
Don't look now, but that's my ex over there." Surely I'm not the only one who takes "don't look now" as "there's no better time than now." I looked. "Bad, Ali!" Another slap to my arm. "Bad, bad, bad Ali! Have you no self control? Gena Showalter
selfish years two
I am cruel and I am selfish, but this need I have inside me, this need for you and no other, is stronger than anything else I've ever encountered. I doubt two years of lockup would dull it in the slightest.
self shadow redemption
We are too much haunted by ourselves, projecting the central shadow of self on everything around us. And then comes the Gospel to rescue us from this selfishness. Redemption is this, to forget self in God. Frederick William Robertson
selfish brave soul
In the darkest hour through which a human soul can pass, whatever else is doubtful, this at least is certain. If there be no God and no future state, yet even then it is better to be generous than selfish, better to be chaste than licentious, better to be true than false, better to be brave than to be a coward.
self literature world
How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world. Franz Kafka
self literature association
Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.
self doubt life-is
Life is merely terrible; I feel it as few others do. Often — and in my inmost self perhaps all the time — I doubt whether I am a human being.
self ideas feelings
Also in contemporary Western society the union with the group is the prevalent way of overcoming separateness. It is a union which the individual self disappears to a large extent, and where the aim is to belong to the heard. If I am like everybody else, if I have no feeling or thoughts which make me different, if I conform in custom, dress, ideas, to the pattern of the group, I am saved: saved from the frightening experience of aloneness. Erich Fromm
self liberty have-faith
We forget that, although each of the liberties which have been won must be defended with utmost vigour, the problem of freedom is not only a quantitative one, but a qualitative one; that we not only have to preserve and increase the traditional freedom, but that we have to gain a new kind of freedom, one which enables us to realize our own individual self; to have faith in this self and in life.
self stop tedious
Stop the I. When that's all you have to say, it is very tedious and self-promoting.
selfless volunteer
The willingness to volunteer is a selfless act.
self wise
The wise are those who know the Self. Sathya Baba
self-knowledge
You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.
self-esteem
In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect... and no. Jane Haddam
selfless service
It's all about service to others. It's really a selfless day.
selfish series
I'm not greedy, I'm not selfish I just wanted to get to a World Series one time, Craig Biggio
self servant serve
If you'd have a Servant that you like, serve your self Benjamin Franklin