#oneself

One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist. ↗

— Anish Kapoor

#any #artist #believe #must #mythologies

One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent? ↗

— Leon Kass

#bad #been #century #could #good

An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#catching #feeling #idea #legitimate #oneself

It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#believed #could #curious #handling #how

The main condition for the achievement of love is the overcoming of one's narcissism. The narcissistic orientation is one in which one experiences as real only that which exists within oneself, while the phenomena in the outside world have no reality in themselves, but are experienced only from the viewpoint of their being useful or dangerous to one. The opposite pole to narcissism is objectivity; it is the faculty to see other people and things as they are, objectively, and to be able to separate this objective picture from a picture which is formed by one's desires and fears. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#humility #love #narcissism #narcissistic #objective

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. ↗

— Bruce Lee

#another #know #oneself #person #study

There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#anything #oneself #only #persuade #real

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. ↗

— Archibald MacLeish

#choice #choose #create #freedom #oneself

Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause. ↗