Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes

Thou art in the end what thou art. Put on wigs with millions of curls, set thy foot upon ell-high rocks. Thou abidest ever--what thou art.

What you are is a question only you can answer.

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.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.

I realized that... at the core of who we are, we're these perfect beings - and we're not taught that.

All my work is not personal - I've been trying to get away from that into the true self underneath all the tastes and things we think make up a self.

Anyone who knows who God made them to be will never try to be someone else.

What does your conscience say? — 'You should become the person you are'.

The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.

The real religion is not imitation of anybody else, it is a search to find out your own authentic self, who you are.

The true inner self must be drawn up like a jewel from the bottom of the sea, rescued from confusion, from indistinction, from immersion in the common, the nondescript, the trivial, the sordid, the evanescent.

Many things in your life matter, but only one thing matters absolutely.. It is finding the essence of who you are.

It takes a lot of rehearsing for a man to be himself.

Your personality is a tool of your soul.

The most strongly enforced of all known taboos is the taboo against knowing who or what you really are behind the mask of your apparently separate, independent, and isolated ego.

I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring.

The outlines of the needed psychology of becoming can be discovered by looking within ourselves; for it is knowledge of our own uniqueness that supplies the first, and probably the best, hints for acquiring orderly knowledge of others.

My personality doesn't interest me.

Ultimately, you have to pursue your own path, not someone's idea of the right path. You need to stay on your path.

With every project you do, you bring out a part of yourself, and it seems to be quite a good way of expanding a person.

Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves, it is because we have no personality.

My daughter's 19. I'm not asking her to develop as an artist. I'm just asking her to develop as a full person, human being.

I want to challenge people to find out who they are.

Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers.

My interest lies in my self-expression - what's inside of me - not what I'm in.