Oneself Quotes
On knowing, cultivating, and stepping back from oneself.
This page gathers reflections on the self, comparing cultural approaches to personal development and considering the value of stepping back from one's own perspective. For related identity themes, see the Being quotes page.
Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not.
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Chinese learning is an internal learning, but Western learning is an external one; Chinese learning is for the cultivation of oneself, just as Western learning is for the handling of worldly affairs.
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The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.
If one wants to measure oneself by the facile accruement of awards, then I've done very well.
What becomes fascinating is the way the culture industry doesn't deny it and doesn't try to mitigate it, but tries to sell its products as a way of liberating oneself.
To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.
Always Quotes
To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
Being Quotes
The instinct to improve oneself materially is necessary for growth. It is at the fountain of the enterprising spirit which drives private enterprise.
It is always the instantaneous reaction to oneself that produces a photograph.
The whole problem of the sound-work is distancing oneself from the dramatic.
It is always a gamble to agree to publish something one has not yet read oneself.
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The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
