Self - Quotes

Behind your thoughts and feelings, my brother, there stands a mighty ruler, an unknown sage – whose name is Self. In your body he dwells; he is your body. There is more reason in your body than in your best wisdom. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Dwelling upon the self too much produces terrible fatigue. A man in that position is deaf and blind to everything else. The fatigue itself makes him cease to see the marvels all around. - Carlos Castaneda

Everyone needs a strong sense of self. It is our base of operations for everything that we do in life. - Unknown

If I try to seize this self of which I feel sure, if I try to define and to summarize it, it is nothing but water slipping through my fingers. I can sketch one by one all the aspects it is able to assume, all those likewise that have been attributed to it, this upbringing, this origin, this ardor or these silences, this nobility or this vileness. But aspects cannot be added up. - Albert Camus

If Self be predominant, the man is unsociable. -

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star. - Gilbert Chesterton

People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates. - Thomas Szasz

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself. - Michel de Montaigne

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action. - John Dewey

This above all, to thine own self be true. - William Shakespeare