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Ourselves Quotes by Emile M. Cioran
- Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
- If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.
- We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.
- Our works, whatever they may be, derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves.
- The more we try to rest ourselves from our Egos, the deeper we sink into it.
- We are born to Exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves.
- When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves.
- Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to…
- We understand God by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, incomplete, and inopportune.
More Ourselves Quotes
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge,… — Isaac Asimov
- We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it… — Julian Assange
- Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing… — Chinua Achebe
- I don't think we are going to become extinct. We're very clever and extremely resourceful - and we will find ways of… — David Attenborough
- By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity. — Saint Augustine
- We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot. — Saint Augustine
- Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride… — Jane Austen
- We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be. — Jane Austen
- I think if we didn't contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive. — Paul Auster