Quotes of: Oneself Keyword

Me personally, I'm a guy who it took a long time to figure out what I'm supposed to be doing. I relate to a lot of that finding oneself a little later in the game, or being thrown a curve later in the game.

Kurt Sutter

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

Paul Valery

We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.

R. D. Laing

As a writer one is allowed to have conversations with oneself. What is considered sane in writers is made for the rest of the human race.

Alan Ayckbourn

Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.

Alain de Botton

Things are not as we would like them to be. There is only one way to deal with it, namely to try and be all right oneself.

Anna Freud

The key to holding a logical argument or debate is to allow oneself to understand the other person’s argument no matter how divergent their views may seem.

Auliq Ice

There is no glory in the sacrificing of oneself in the name of imperialism by order of elitist politicians. But this is what our young service members are led to believe.

Aaron B. Powell

To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one's mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality.

Ayn Rand

Besides, a new decade is a chance to find oneself at the beginning of things. Oh, life! What a sweet little Etch A Sketch of time you are!

Sloane Crosley

I have tried to express the idea that the café is a place where one can ruin oneself, go mad, or commit a crime.

Vincent Van Gogh

Falling in love was as much about receiving as it was giving, was it? It seemed selfish. It was not, though. It was the opposite. Keeping oneself from being loved was to refuse the ultimate gift. He had thought himself done with romantic love. He had...

At Last Comes Love

What's most revolting is that one is really sad! No, it's better at home. Here at least one blames others for everything and excuses oneself.

Crime and Punishment

Death is known only through dying and truth is known only through diving deep within oneself.

Drop It! Practical Guide to Self Enlightenment

Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

Existentialists and Mystics Writings on Philosophy and Literature

Dinner alone is one of life's pleasures. Certainly cooking for oneself reveals man at his weirdest.

Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen

Never say never, but the thought of electively cutting oneself is beyond my grasp, and I also object to it politically. Denying the lines on our faces makes a comment about age and wisdom I don't care to make.

Debra Winger

To fear death, gentlemen, is no other then to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.

The Apology

But my point, you see is that death is misunderstood. The loss of one's life is not the greatest loss. It is no loss at all. To others, perhaps, but not to oneself.

The Imperfectionists

Men seek a great deal, but fatally close, albeit very different, is one's pride in proving oneself right with one's zeal for finding the truth.

Killosophy

A lady should never feel anxious about her behavior. The status is bred in the bone. To show anxiety is to lower oneself. Anxiety is .

A Kiss at Midnight