Self

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In philosophy, the self is the idea of a unified being which is the source of an idiosyncratic consciousness.

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• The Arch-flatterer, with whom all the petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man’s self.
  • Francis Bacon. ‘On Love’, Essays (1597-1625)

• The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
  • Francis Herbert Bradley (1846–1924), British philosopher. Aphorisms, No. 8 (1930)

• Cogito, ergo sum.
• I think, therefore I am.
  • Descartes Discours de la Méthode, Discourse on the Method (1637)

• Identity is an illusion, a temporary state. Everyone is searching for it, but it’s only a brief reflection in a very shallow pool of time.
  • Olivia Dresher (b. 1945), American poet and publisher. ‘Aphorisms by Olivia Dresher’ on, Olivia Dresher.com

• Self-correction begins with self-knowledge.
  • Baltasar Gracián. In maxim 69, The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1647)

• The best mirror is an old friend.
  • George Herbert Jacula Prudentum (1651) (17th Century English proverb)

• If I am not for myself, who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now - when?
  • Hillel, from Leo Rosten's Treasury of Jewish Quotations p. 459 (1972)

• Self: that invisible chain that snaps tight whenever we stray.
  • Yahia Lababidi (b. 1973), Egyptian-Lebanese essayist and poet. Signposts to Elsewhere (2008)

• Of course, "O'Blivion" was not the name I was born with. That's my television name. Soon, all of us will have special names — names designed to cause the cathode ray tube to resonate.
  • Professor Brian O'Blivion, in Videodrome, a 1983 film directed by David Cronenberg.

• To thine own self be true.
  • William Shakespeare Polonius, in Hamlet

• 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.
  • Thomas Szasz (b. 1920), Hungarian-American psychiatrist, writer and academic. The second Sin (1974)

• To love oneself is the begining of a life-long romance.
  • Oscar Wilde, 'Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young', (1894)

• Self-image is the beginning and ending of living, I think.
  • Henry Winkler (b.1945), American actor, producer and director. Stated in his appearance on, The One Show, BBC1 (UK) television talk show, 15th May 2009

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• Do not repair another man's fence until you have seen to your own.
  • Anonymous

• If you love yourself others will hate you, if you humble yourself others will love you.
  • Anonymous

• Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.
  • Cecil Beaton

• The only reason I self-doubt myself is so others won't do it for me.
  • Brandy Erard

• If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won before you have started.
  • Marcus Garvey

• If you don't love yourself, how can you expect others to see what's so beautiful?
  • Kelly Rowland

• Knowing others is wisdom. Knowing oneself is enlightenment.
  • Lao Tzu

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