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Oneself Quotes - Page 6

One can forget everything, everything, only not oneself, one's own being.

"Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851.

Rare indeed, is the relationship in which the other is not cultivated for what one can get for oneself.

Anthony De Mello (2012). “Heart of the Enlightened: A Book of Story Meditations”, p.126, Image

Expressing oneself is like a drug. I'm so addicted to it.

"The Bold and the Beautiful" by Jiang Xueqing, Global Times, November 26, 2009.

Unkindness almost always stands for the displeasure that one has in oneself.

Adrienne Monnier (1976). “The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier”, p.174, U of Nebraska Press

Does one ever see any ghost that is not oneself?

Marjorie Bowen (1948). “Mignonette: A Novel”

The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.

"The Atlanta Co-Ed Murder". Book by Glen C. Carrington (p. 165), August 2010.

If to talk to oneself when alone is folly, it must be doubly unwise to listen to oneself in the presence of others.

Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.80, Shambhala Publications

It was not really possible to understand oneself, let alone another human being.

Arthur Miller (2013). “Timebends: A Life”, p.345, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Compassion directed to oneself is humility.

Simone Weil (2015). “First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge”, p.104, Wipf and Stock Publishers

Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.45, Random House

It is a great error to take oneself for more than one is, or for less than one is worth.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.53, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe