“First there's God, then there's Glenville, then there's myself.”
[Gokavi, Mark, GLENVILLE RACES TO THE FRONT OF THE PACK; Cleveland boys take state track meet at Welcome Stadium, C12, Dayton Daily News, 2003-06-08, 2007-01-23]
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Source: Lectures on Philosophy (1959), p. 90
The only mark of God in us is that we feel that we are not God.
p. 90
Lectures on Philosophy (1959)
Si je me tue ce ne sera pas pour me détruire, mais pour me reconstituer, le suicide ne sera pour moi qu’un moyen de me reconquérir violemment, de faire brutalement irruption dans mon être, de devancer l’avance incertaine de Dieu. Par le suicide, je réintroduis mon dessin dans la nature, je donne pour la première fois aux choses la forme de ma volonté.
“On Suicide,” no. 1, Le Disque Vert (1925).
“In order to control myself I must first accept myself by going with and not against my nature.”
Source: World of the Five Gods series, Paladin of Souls (2003), p. 61
As quoted in Ms. magazine (August 1972) p. 42
Variant: First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself that I'm an actress.
"Egoism" as quoted by Amy Lowell, "Edgar Lee Masters and Carl Sandburg," Tendencies in Modern American Poetry http://books.google.com/books?id=UgZaAAAAMAAJ (1917)
“Now, with God's help, I shall become myself.”
“God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.”
The Garden, ii; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).