If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant notions others might form on a subject in which he had such matchless opportunities for observation.
Never to talk about oneself is a very refined form of hypocrisy.
You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.
He who doesn't consider himself is seldom considerate of others.
One of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself.
This god, this one word: I.
You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.
I believe that my father has become an ongoing symbol of what it means to keep on fighting for what is good in oneself, in others, and in our country.
Xenophon says that there is no sound more pleasing than one's own praises.
Dancing is the last word in life. In dancing one draws nearer to oneself.
I think, myself, that one's memories represent those moments which, insignificant as they may seem, nevertheless represent the inner self and oneself as most really oneself.
Most people are subjective toward themselves and objective toward all others, frightfully objective sometimes--but the task is precisely to be objective toward oneself and subjective toward all others.
A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.
If you don't look after yourself, no one else will.
The only thing a man knows is himself.
In your efforts to dazzle us your reasoning has gone awry. You know very well that love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
To know anything about oneself one must know all about others.
The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.
You can only see in someone else what you see in yourself.
The night was a time for bestial affinities, for drawing closer to oneself.
It's challenging to judge a TV show because you don't have any lines. You just have to be yourself.
It is enough that one surrenders oneself. Surrender is giving oneself up to the original cause of one's being. Do not delude yourself by imagining this source to be some God outside you. One's source is within oneself. Give yourself up to it. That means that you should seek the source and merge in it.
One eventually has enough even of oneself.
