Himself - Quotes
Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.
A man may climb Everest for himself, but at the summit he plants his country`s flag.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. All progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Often when he looked at the multidude of wares exposed for sale, [Socrates] would say to himself, "How many things I can do without!"
The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellow-men.
I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.
A boy who won`t stand up for himself becomes a man who can`t stand up to anything.
Man is always a prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.
No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
In all true life there comes a moment when a man is so deep in passion, it is as if he had cast himself into the waters of Niagara without a life belt.
You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble? Your father is alive in you, [...] and shows himself most plainly when you have need of him.
Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.
I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.