Definition of Self

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Definition of Self

Self

Having its own or a single nature or character, as in color, composition, etc., without addition or change; unmixed; as, a self bow, one made from a single piece of wood; self flower or plant, one which is wholly of one color; self-colored.

Same; particular; very; identical.

The individual as the object of his own reflective consciousness; the man viewed by his own cognition as the subject of all his mental phenomena, the agent in his own activities, the subject of his own feelings, and the possessor of capacities and character; a person as a distinct individual; a being regarded as having personality.

Hence, personal interest, or love of private interest; selfishness; as, self is his whole aim.

Personification; embodiment.

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Self Quotations

He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.
Buddha

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
Maya Angelou

Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.
Stephen Covey

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
Kahlil Gibran

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.
Kahlil Gibran

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.
Napoleon Hill

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
Benjamin Franklin

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.
Helen Keller

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
William Shakespeare

Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.
William Shakespeare

Self Translations

self in Afrikaans is self
self in Dutch is vanzelf, zelf
self in Finnish is itse
self in German is selber, selbst, selbst
self in Latin is ego

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