1,328 quotes found
“One may understand the cosmos but never the ego the self is more distant than any star.”
“I am as bad as the worst but thank God I am as good as the best.”
“If you really do put a small value upon yourself rest assured that the world will not raise your price.”
“If I am not for myself who will be?”
“If you know nothing be pleased to know nothing.”
“From without no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves unless some interior responding wonder meets it.”
“Nobody knows what's in him until he tries to pull it out. If there's nothing or very little the shock can kill a man.”
“When three people call you an ass put on a bridle.”
“To penetrate one's being one must go armed to the teeth.”
“Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault dear Brutus is not in our stars But in ourselves that we are underlings.”
“Self-reverence self-knowledge self-control - these three alone lead to sovereign power.”
“There are limits to self-indulgence none to self-restraint.”
“The important thing is not what they think of me it is what I think of them.”
“I think Dostoevsky was right that every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture where he says this is me and the damned world can go to hell.”
“Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself I am large I contain multitudes.”
“Be thine own palace or the world's thy jail.”
“I am as my Creator made me and since He is satisfied so am I.”
“I live in the crowds of jollity not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.”
“I refuse to try to explain everything because if you know too much about yourself you become impotent. Better not to know what it is that makes you tick.”
“I have been a selfish being all my life in practice though not in principle.”
