"Laughter is the climax in the tragedy of seeing, hearing and smelling self-consciously."
Read quote
7 likes
Self quotes
Self
12.5K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Self
Browse quotes that often appear alongside self — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Self quotes (page 89 of 626)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"History may be servitude. History may be freedom. See, now they vanish. The faces and places, with the self which, as it could, loved them, to become renewed, transfigured, in another pattern."
Read quote
7 likes
"I entered (into my inward self) and beheld with the eye of my soul...the Light Unchangeable."
Read quote
7 likes
"The highest point of humility consists in not merely acknowledging one's abjection, but in taking pleasure therein, not from any want of breadth or courage, but to give the more glory to God's Divine Majesty, and to esteem one's neighbour more highly than one's self."
Read quote
7 likes
"Self-command is the main elegance."
Read quote
7 likes
"Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?"
Read quote
7 likes
"Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs."
Read quote
7 likes
"When I severe my connections with the A.I.A. I do so with my own self respect, as a matter of pride and I am sure within your knowledge of my character."
Read quote
7 likes
"A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes-within the limits of endowment and environment-he has made out of himself."
Read quote
7 likes
"We feel lonely now and then and long for friends and think we should be quite different and happier if we found a friend of whom we might say: “He is the one.” But you, too, will begin to learn that there is much self-deception behind this longing; if we yielded too much to it, it would lead us from the road."
Read quote
7 likes
"I don't believe anyone ever suspects how completely unsure I am of my work and myself and what tortures of self-doubting the doubt of others has always given me."
Read quote
7 likes
"The other night I searched (the Web) for 'self-transforming elf machines.' There were 36 hits! It surprised me. I sort of use the search engine like an oracle. I've used the phrase for DMT, 'Arabian hyperspace.' So I thought of this, and then I searched it, 'Arabian hyperspace,' in quotes. And it took me right to a transcript of the talk in which I'd said the thing! You can find your own mind on the Internet. I'm very grateful to the people who type up my talks and then post them at their websites."
Read quote
7 likes
"Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all."
Read quote
7 likes
"Self-righteousness is the devil's masterpiece to make us think well of ourselves."
Read quote
7 likes
"The last end of every maker, as such, is himself, for what we make we use for our own sake; and if at any time a man make a thing for the sake of something else, it is referred to his own good, whether his use, his pleasure, or his virtue."
Read quote
7 likes
"There is, therefore, a more perfect intellectual life in the angels. In them the intellect does not proceed to self-knowledge from anything exterior, but knows itself through itself."
Read quote
7 likes
"The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect."
Read quote
7 likes
"We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other."
Read quote
7 likes
"the qualifications for self-government in society are not innate. they are the result of habit and long training."
Read quote
7 likes
"To worship our false selves is to worship nothing. And the worship of nothing is hell."
Read quote
7 likes