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Self Quotes by Soren Kierkegaard
- I go fishing for a thousand monsters in the depths of my own self
- Man is spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self? The self is a relation which relates itself to…
- A human being is a spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is self? The self is a relation that relates…
- This is the miracle of life: that each person who heeds him or herself knows what no scientist can ever know: who he or she…
- Only one human being recognized as one's neighbour is necessary in order to cure a man of self-love
- Let others mock at you, oppose you, when you are under the influence of any passion; do not be in the least offended with those…
- Be that self which one truly is.
- The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss…
- 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…
- The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.
- To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one's self.... And to venture in the highest is precisely to be conscious of…
- It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the…
More Self Quotes
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation. — Arthur Ashe
- Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. — Isaac Asimov
- Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self. — Francis of Assisi
- That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it… — Mary Astell
- Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. — Nancy Astor
- It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us… — David Attenborough
- Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up. — Dean Acheson
- A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower… — Marcus Aurelius
- What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken! — Jane Austen
- We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves,… — Paul Auster