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You can't defend the indefensible - anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical.

With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books.

Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up.

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love.

It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.

Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.

Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing.

Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.

Everyone must correct his own self; this is something more difficult to cope with, but it is not impossible.

Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.

Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.

Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.

The system of domination is founded on depriving nations of their true identity. It seeks to deprive nations of their culture, identity, self-confidence and in this way dominate them.

The advent of self-government for the Iraqi people is a watershed moment in their history.

It's not like my old self - I'm not in character anymore, I'm me. I'm not hiding behind that anymore.

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.

Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.