4,826 Quotes About Self

The material world has only been constructed at the price of taking the self, that is, mind, out of it, removing it; mind is not part of it...

Our perceiving self is nowhere to be found in the world-picture, because it itself is the world-picture.

The self is not so much linked to its ancestors, it is not so much the product, and merely the product, of all that, but rather, in the strictest sense of the word, the same thing as all that: the strict, direct continuation of it, just as the self aged fifty is the continuation of the self aged forty.

I suspect anyone self-satisfied enough to refuse lawful pleasures: we are not sufficiently rich in our separate resources to reject the graces of the universe when offered ...

For the world is only governed by self-interest.

Most of us do not like to look inside ourselves for the same reason we don't like to open a letter that has bad news.

The mercy of the West has been social revolution; the mercy of the East has been individual insight into the basic self/void.

A great poet does not express his or her self; he expresses all of our selves.

For several centuries Western civilization has had a drive for material accumulation, continual extensions of economic power, termed 'progress'...The longing for growth is not wrong. The nub of the problem is how to flip over, as in jujitsu, the magnificent growth energy of modern civilization into a nonacquisitive search for deeper knowledge of self and nature.