Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.
Science is a self-sufficient activity.
What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.
Self-love is the source of all our other loves.
Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.
I find still photographs make me quite self-conscious.
Make today a gift to your future self.
Self-love seems so often unrequited.
If one dies to inspire, believe it or not he's already inspiring one's self
Self-love, it is obvious, remains always positive and active in our natures.
The spectacle is at the same time the mirage of self in the mirror of things.
A journey through nature is always a road thatleads to self-discovery.
The self may be extinguished, but there are many selves and the Will creates them.
When the self is not engaged in apprehending objects it becomes aware of itself.
I have a rigid self-accountability. You have to work hard.
Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.
Each form is inadequate, like a graft to be rejected by its intractable and unrelenting host and thus can only serve a brief and momentary purpose coherent to a context rooted in contiguous reason. This unbridled brash Spirit is, to itself, burdensom...
What an immature, self-destructive, antiquated mischief is man! How obscure and gross his prancing and chattering on his little stage of evolution! How loathsome and beyond words boring all the thoughts and self-approval of his biological by-product!...
The practice of that which is ethically best—what we call goodness or virtue—involves a course of conduct which, in all respects, is opposed to that which leads to success in the cosmic struggle for existence. In place of ruthless self-assertion ...
We’re miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentments and mortality. We wrongly believe that our limited little egos constitute our whole entire nature. We have failed to recognize our deeper ...
