self Quotes

“every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.”

― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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“if you want to keep a secret you must also hide it from yourself.”

― George Orwell, 1984

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“I don't want every one to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.”

― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

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“The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.”

― Albert Einstein, The world as I see it

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“The moment we recognize that the self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action, the whole situation clears up.”

― John Dewey, Democracy and Education

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“But though the ways led away from the self, their end nevertheless always led back to the self.”

― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

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“No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.”

― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

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“Self-loathing is not sorrow. Yet it is good, for it marks a step in the way home, and in the father's arms the prodigal forgets the self he abominates. Once with his father, he is to himself of no more account.”

― George MacDonald, Lilith

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“To 'Know Thyself' is considered quite an accomplishment, which it has taken us, who are your elders, months to perfect.”

― L. Frank Baum, The Marvelous Land of Oz

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“Not I, not any one else can travel that road for you,You must travel it for yourself.”

― Walt Whitman, Song of Myself

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