Self-Worship Quotes

Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it. Man believes that the world itself is filled with beauty -he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world -alas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty.

If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself. You have a duty to worship God, not because He will be imperfect and unhappy if you do not, but because you will be imperfect and unhappy.

He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.

A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.

To worship our false selves is to worship nothing. And the worship of nothing is hell.

What nearly everybody in my life had misunderstood about Satanism was that it is not about ritual sacrifices, digging up graves and worshipping the devil. The devil doesn't exist. Satanism is about worshipping yourself, because you are responsible for your own good and evil.

Men to whom God is dead worship one another.

If you a Kanye West fan, you a fan of yourself.

Idolatry is when you become the source of your own joy. Poverty of spirit is a wonderful thing.

Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.

The more I study religions, the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.

I sacrifice to no god save myself - And to my belly, greatest of deities.

The relation of evolution to man has so far been a very much more complex and disturbing matter than the relation of gravitation to man. Its significance in relation to the very existence of man is pregnant with opportunities for trouble. Emotions, traditions, old beliefs, religion, and especially formal theology, are involved. Our anthropocentric system of world philosophy, outgrowth of centuries of self-worship, feels itself assailed. The reaction is one of anger and fear. Is man after all not a unique, specially created being, around whom and for whom an all-powerful Creator has produced the rest of life and the world? Evolution comes as the iconoclast to rob man of his sacred isolation.

If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.

I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic.

In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize the other part.

You know what ego stands for: Edging Out God!

Self-love is the love of a man's own self, and of everything else for his own sake. It makes people idolaters to themselves, and tyrants to all the world besides.

I brought a mirror to Lovers' Lane. I told everybody I'm Narcissus.

Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.

Every man makes a god of his own desire.

The very rich only admire themselves

I'm a committed Christian. I worship in my own way. That's my business. That's not the business of the pharisees who are going to preach to me about what I do and then do something else.