„What person with any sense likes himself? I know myself too well to like myself.“

— Golda Meir

Fallaci interview (1973)

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former prime minister of Israel 1898 - 1978

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„I simply like Chuang Tzu because he is what he is and I feel no need to justify this liking to myself or to anyone else. He is far too great to need any apologies from me.“

— Thomas Merton Priest and author 1915 - 1968

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Context: I simply like Chuang Tzu because he is what he is and I feel no need to justify this liking to myself or to anyone else. He is far too great to need any apologies from me. … His philosophical temper is, I believe, profoundly original and sane. It can of course be misunderstood. But it is basically simple and direct. It seeks, as does all the greatest philosophical thought, to go immediately to the heart of things.
Chuang Tzu is not concerned with words and formulas about reality, but with the direct existential grasp of reality in itself. Such a grasp is necessarily obscure and does not lend itself to abstract analysis. It can be presented in a parable, a fable, or a funny story about a conversation between two philosophers.

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— Candace Bushnell, book The Carrie Diaries

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„Well, I myself find that respect is like manure. Use it where needed, and growth will flourish. Spread it on too thick, and things just start to smell.“

— Brandon Sanderson, book The Way of Kings

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„They are like me, I tell myself. And in that way I protect myself against them. And in that way I protect myself against myself.“

— Antonio Porchia Italian Argentinian poet 1885 - 1968

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„Since He is the Mediator of God and men, the man Christ Jesus has been made Head of the Church, and the faithful are His members. Wherefore He says: "For them I hallow Myself" (John 17:19). But when He says, "For them I hallow Myself," what else can He mean but this: "I sanctify them in Myself, since truly they are Myself"? For, as I have remarked, they of whom He speaks are His members, and the Head of the body are one Christ. … That He signifies this unity is certain from the remainder of the same verse. For having said, "For them I hallow Myself," He immediately adds, "in order that they too may be hallowed in truth," to show that He refers to the holiness that we are to receive in Him. Now the words "in truth" can only mean "in Me," since Truth is the Word who in the beginning was God.
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Men, God, Truth, Faith

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— Fernando Pessoa Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher 1888 - 1935

Começo a conhecer-me. Não existo.
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Life, Personality

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Personality

„I prefer nothing but that they act like themselves, and I like myself.“
Nihil enim malo quam et me mei similem esse et illos sui.

— Julius Caesar Roman politician and general -100 - -44 BC

Reported by Marcus Tullius Cicero in a letter to Atticus.
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There is nothing I like better than that I should be true to myself and they to themselves.
Disputed

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— Richelle Mead, book Last Sacrifice

Source: Last Sacrifice

Feeling

„I am well protected
Too locked up
Inside myself
To get free“

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„What person with any sense likes himself? I know myself too well to like myself.“

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