Finding oneself Quote by Jacques Barzun Download Open image “Finding oneself was a misnomer; a self is not found but made.” — Jacques Barzun ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Finding oneself Findings Found Identity Made Oneself Self
People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
You find yourself in this world, you find yourself out of this world and there's no one to find the Self. There's no Self… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
One does not "find oneself" by pursuing one's self, but on the contrary by pursuing something else and learning through discipline or routine. .… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
I can't be found in myself; I discover myself in others. That much is clear. And I suspect that I also love and care… — Hugh Prather Copy Share Image
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
The reason why research is like sculpting from memory is that in neither is there a concrete visible subject to copy directly. The subject… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Everybody keeps calling for Excellence - excellence not just in schooling, throughout society. But as soon as somebody or something stands out as Excellent,… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Bernard Shaw remains the only model we have of what the citizen of a democracy should be: an informed participant in all things we… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
The ascetic is often a sensualist who has reached the limit of his capacity. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
The mind tends to run along the groove of one's intention and overlook the actual expression. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Vanity is a static thing. It puts it faith in what it has, and is easily wounded. Pride is active, and satisfied only with… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
By the time I was 9, I had the conviction that everybody in the world was an artist except plumbers or people who delivered groceries. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Finding oneself and one's path is like waking up on a foggy day. Be patient, and presently the fog will clear and that which… — Rasheed Ogunlaru Copy Share Image
“In life if you have not done enough to create yourself, you will never be able to find yourself.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“you must find yourself before you can know where you belong, yet to find yourself first you must know who you are. However, you… — Andrew James Pritchard Copy Share Image
“He who does not really feel himself lost, is lost without remission; that is to say, he never finds himself, never comes up against… — José Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Telling a true story about personal experience is not just a matter of being oneself, or even or finding oneself. It is also a… — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
What is magic? In the deepest sense, magic is an experience. It's the experience of finding oneself alive within a world that is itself… — David Abram Copy Share Image
“I saw a dead bird flying through a broken sky. I heard it, and it said, "The world will never understand.” — Nadège Richards Copy Share Image
You can't help people being right for the wrong reasons...This fear of finding oneself in bad company is not an expression of political purity;… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Theoretically there is no absolute proof that one's awakening in the morning (the finding oneself again in the saddle of one's personality) is not… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
In a time when everybody is talking about finding oneself, how do you find yourself? I wanted to do it as literally as possible.… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
“It's a funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight… — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
Your discovery, as best as I can determine, is that there is an alternative which no one has hit upon. It is that one… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
