Oneself Quotes

To forget oneself is to be happy.

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.

If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of the university and laboratory until one gets a better grasp of one’s subject matter.

At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.

As a writer one is allowed to have conversations with oneself.

We’ll go where the air is pure, where all sounds are soothing, where, no matter how proud one may be, one feels humble and finds oneself small- in short, we’ll go to the sea. I love the sea as one loves a mistress and I long for her when I haven’t seen her for some time

If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.

Freeing oneself from words is liberation.

All these older kids here, and I’m the only one from a town that’s so small, if everyone breathed at the same time, you’d run out of oxygen. Man, there is nothing there.