When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.
John Ruskin

The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.
Bertrand Russell

When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.
Bertrand Russell

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.
Bertrand Russell

Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.
William James

The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.
John Kenneth Galbraith

It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all others with indignation.
John Kenneth Galbraith

I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
Emily Bronte

He wants you all to Himself to put His loving, divine arms around you.
Charles Stanley

What each man feared would happen to himself, did not trouble him when he saw that it would ruin another.
Virgil

None but himself can be his parallel.
Virgil

Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself.
Charles Baudelaire

The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.
Charles Baudelaire

No one will ever accuse James Carville of taking himself seriously.
James Carville

Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.
Bill Vaughan

What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil.
Norman Mailer

God loves to help him who strives to help himself.
Aeschylus

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.
Elbert Hubbard

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.
Thomas Carlyle

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
Thomas Carlyle