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Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.


Friedrich Nietzsche

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DAVID BAILEY I judge the world by my own lights
and I come by my own hand.
CATHERINE MADSEN Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind, and when the same thought occurs to another ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
STEPHEN FRY Fashion in the past meant conforming and losing oneself. Fashion in the present means being individu...
GLORIA STEINEM Life can be very terrible," he said. "One needs much courage."
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AGATHA CHRISTIE To tell the truth about oneself, to discover oneself near at hand, is not easy.
VIRGINIA WOOLF One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with on...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it's hard to conv...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR To comport oneself with perfect propriety in Polygonal society, one ought to be a Polygon oneself.
EDWIN A. ABBOTT Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love...
ERICH FROMM The power of getting to know one another is so immense, eclipsed only by first getting to know ourse...
BRYANT MCGILL To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
ALBERT CAMUS To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We con...
ALBERT CAMUS Successful self-development also involves taking more self-time to be quiet and think for oneself!
PATRICK DRIESSEN One writes primarily to free oneself from oneself.
MARTY RUBIN Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon onesel...
GEORGE MEREDITH In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be ...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Forgetting oneself is opening oneself
DōGEN Dream your own dreams,
be your own person and image,
no matter the extremes.
KAYEC JONES Risk is the unique path to success.
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RAMANA MAHARSHI It's astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself into, if one works at it. And astonishing how ...
NEIL GAIMAN To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself
SENECA I believe one has to escape oneself to discover oneself.
RABIH ALAMEDDINE I don't care for others thoughts on oneself, I care for oneself' thoughts on oneself
DANIEL ROBERT O'NEILL To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.
EARL NIGHTINGALE To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself
EARL NIGHTINGALE Even if one is neither vain nor self-obsessed, it is so extraordinary to be oneself - exactly onesel...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR The only thing that should be introverted about oneself is constructive criticism.
DEDRICK D. L. PITTER Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.
EDSGER DIJKSTRA Our culture is about distraction, numbing oneself.
DAVID GREENFIELD Making oneself large involves intentionally making oneself small.
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
BRUCE LEE "To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person."
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MOHAMMED ALI BAPIR To be understood is to prostitute oneself
FERNANDO PESSOA To forget oneself is to be happy.
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THOMAS SZASZ One should speak little with others and much with oneself
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You must dare to fly!
CASS VAN KRAH How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other...
EDWARD FREDERIC BENSON Feeling harder to be oneself might be a curse of popularity.
TOBA BETA Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself f...
JOSEF STALIN Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited and to abstract oneself fr...
JOSEPH STALIN Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself f...
JOSEPH STALIN Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited and to abstract oneself fr...
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SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER One despairs of others so as not to despair too much of oneself
HENRI PETIT Denying God is denying oneself and denying oneself is denying God.
CASSIO DE NOVA' The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to oneself.
SENECA My painting is visible images which conceal nothing... they evoke mystery and indeed when one sees o...
RENE MAGRITTE The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.
JOHN FOWLES To be whole simply requires paying attention to oneself.
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ANUJ SOMANY Success is a matter of one's own feeling about oneself.
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DAVID ROCKEFELLER Being alone by oneself is much better than being alone with another.
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ANDREW JAMES PRITCHARD My painting is visible images which conceal nothing... they evoke mystery and indeed when one sees o...
RENE MAGRITTE To be curious about that which is not one's concern while still in ignorance of oneself is ridiculou...
PLATO The best contribution one can make to humanity is to improve oneself.
VIKTOR FRANKL Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Sanity is to be found in accurate honesty to oneself.
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LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Without confidence, there is no courage.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Your power is in your story and all the wisdom it has brought you.
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DANIEL ROBERT O'NEILL Cursing after hitting oneself can reduce the pain by up to 50%.
ANONYMOUS Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.
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JEAN-PAUL SARTRE To separate oneself or one
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LAO TZU To strive to better oneself is natural and expected.
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Altered opinions do not alter a man's character (or do so very little); but they do illuminate indiv...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for t...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Let us beware of saying there are laws in nature. There are only necessities: there is no one to com...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize t...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Actual philosophers ... are commanders and law-givers: they say
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE He who fights against monsters should see to it that he does not become a monster in the process. An...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE 'Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he ca...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs w...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Insanity in individuals is something rare -- but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the r...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I am interested only in the relations of a people to the rearing of the individual man, and among th...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE What is wanted - whether this is admitted or not - is nothing less than a fundamental remolding, ind...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom --such as a solitude without friends, bo...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs: He alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laug...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The architect represents neither a Dionysian nor an Apollinian condition: here it is the mighty act ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impote...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lo...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological...
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