Quotes on the topic: Oneself


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To me, 'The End of the Jews' - both the title and the novel itself - is about the end of pat, uncritical ways of understanding oneself in the world.


Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.


As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.


My clothes don't make one a different person, just more of oneself.


I never really make solid resolutions. I think if there's something one needs to change with oneself, it doesn't have to happen in the New Year.


In a democracy one must have the right to express oneself and that's what I do, even if it displeases.


Freeing oneself from words is liberation.


One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.


Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.


What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself is worth neither more nor less than what one allows others to find.


In America, everybody thinks they're an entrepreneur. That's the problem. It's not a title that anybody should call oneself.


Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not.


How one can live without being able to judge oneself, criticize what one has accomplished, and still enjoy what one does, is unimaginable to me.


Things are not as we would like them to be. There is only one way to deal with it, namely to try and be all right oneself.


One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist.


Belief in oneself is incredibly infectious. It generates momentum, the collective force of which far outweighs any kernel of self-doubt that may creep in.


To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one's mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality.


How one hates to think of oneself as alone. How one avoids it. It seems to imply rejection or unpopularity.


In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.


To know oneself, one should assert oneself.