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Oneself Quotes

Oneself Definition  
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To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
Bruce Lee

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Albert Camus

To live is to feel oneself lost.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself.
Emile M. Cioran

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Oscar Wilde

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
Simone de Beauvoir

To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.
Pablo Picasso

To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.
Georges Bataille

To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.
Thomas Traherne

To throw oneself to the side of the oppressed is the only dignified thing to do in life.
Edwin Markham

To understand is to forgive, even oneself.
Alexander Chase

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
Helen Keller

True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.
R. D. Laing

Unless one says goodbye to what one loves, and unless one travels to completely new territories, one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself and an eventual extinction.
Jean Dubuffet

Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.
Lao Tzu

We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.
R. D. Laing

What becomes fascinating is the way the culture industry doesn't deny it and doesn't try to mitigate it, but tries to sell its products as a way of liberating oneself.
Thomas Frank

What comes from oneself, is nearly from no one. There is only me as a link.
Eduardo Chillida

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.
Archibald MacLeish

What one does in the studio is to pose a series of problems to oneself. I've got to look for some deeper meaning, for some reason for this thing to be in the world. There's enough stuff in the world.
Anish Kapoor

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