4,826 Quotes About Self

Audiences don't want to see the kind of self-indulgent, boring dance that is so prevalent today.

If we understand the revolutionary transformations caused by new media, we can anticipate and control them; but if we continue in our self-induced subliminal trance, we will be their slaves.

I do not see any beauty in self-restraint.

Self-restraint may be alien to the human temperament, but humanity without restraint will dig its own grave.

Montaigne [puts] not self-satisfied understanding but a consciousness astonished at itself at the core of human existence.

Lichtenberg ... held something of the following kind: one should neither affirm the existence of God nor deny it. ... It is not that he wished to leave certain perspectives open, nor to please everyone. It is rather that he was identifying himself, for his part, with a consciousness of self, of the world, and of others that was "strange" (the word is his) in a sense which is equally well destroyed by the rival explanations.

Self is the lord of self, who else could be the lord?.

To really 'live,' that is to find life reasonably satisfying, you must have an adequate and realistic self-image that you can life with. You must find yourself acceptable to 'you.'

There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.