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Self Quotes by Susan Sontag
- The quality of American life is an insult to the possibilities of human growth... the pollution of American space, with gadgetry and cars and TV…
- Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcende nce.
- As industrialization provided social uses for the operations of the photographer, so the reaction against these uses reinforced the self-consciousness of photography-as-art.
- Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it's the secret to good sex.
- Self-exposure is commendable in art only when it is of a quality and complexity that allows other people to learn about themselves from it.
- This is the beauty that emerges from self-confidence, class confidence. That says, I am not born to please. I am born to be pleased.
- Indeed, the very first acknowledgment (as far as I am aware) of the attraction of mutilated bodies occurs in a founding description of mental conflict.…
- Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.
- Lying is an elementary means of self-defense.
- Result of self-consciousness: audience and actor are the same. I live my life as a spectacle for myself, for my own edification. I live my…
- My urge to write is an urge not to self-expressionism but to self-transcendence. My work is both bigger and smaller than I am.
- If literature has engaged me as a project, first as a reader, then as a writer, it is as an extension of my sympathies to…
- ...to be a poet, requires a mythology of the self. The self described is the poet self, to which the daily self (and others) are…
- I'm only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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