Oneself Quotes - Page 7

• In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.

  Gertrude Stein

  France, Literature, Fragrance

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• To forget oneself is to be happy.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Forget, Forgetfulness

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2016). “Memories and Portraits: Stevenson's Vol. 21”, p.17, VM eBooks

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• Cuando la incomprensión sirve a los demás como ventaja, uno es incapaz de hacerse comprender.

  Lionel Trilling

  Understanding, Obscurity, Advantage

  Lionel Trilling (2012). “The Liberal Imagination”, p.259, New York Review of Books

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• La locura de confundir una paradoja con un descubrimiento, una metáfora con una prueba, un torrente de palabrería con un manantial de verdades mayúsculas, y a uno mismo con un oráculo, es innata en nosotros.

  Paul Valery

  Verdad, honestidad, primavera

  "Introducción al método de Leonardo da Vinci". Libro de Paul Valery, 1895.

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• To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.

  Simone Weil

  Women, Hero, Order

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• Los seres humanos están hechos de tal manera que los que aplastan no sienten nada; es la persona aplastada la que siente lo que está pasando. A menos que uno se haya puesto del lado de los oprimidos, para sentir con ellos, no se puede entender.

  Simone Weil

  Crush, Sides, Oppression

  Simone Weil (1978). “Lectures on Philosophy”, p.139, Cambridge University Press

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• Siempre transmito los buenos consejos. Es lo único que se puede hacer. Nunca es útil para uno mismo.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirador, divertido, ingenioso

  Oscar Wilde (2014). "The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde", p.3, Courier Corporation.

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• Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not.

  A. N. Wilson

  Writing, Shadow, Feels

  AN Wilson: "Todo el mundo escribe a la sombra de Tolstoi". Entrevista con William Skidelsky, www.theguardian.com. 21 de abril de 2012.

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• Nada es tan difícil como no engañarse a uno mismo.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Deception, Investing, Deceiving

  "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 34e), 1980.

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• It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.

  Virginia Woolf

  Ridiculous, Curious, Protect

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2002, Delphi Classics

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• La envidia es un insulto a uno mismo.

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko

  Envy, Insult

  Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (1989). "Primeros poemas", Marion Boyars Editores

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• Me doy cuenta de que hay una paradoja innata en promocionarse por un lado y decir: "Oh, no quiero ser famoso", por otro.

  Romola Garai

  Hands, Want, Paradox

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• She thought how strange it would be if she ever said 'Hello' to him. One did not greet oneself each morning.

  Ayn Rand

  Morning, Would Be, Strange

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.594, Penguin

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• It is not inertia alone that is responsible for human relationships repeating themselves from case to case, indescribably monotonous and unrenewed: it is shyness before any sort of new, unforeseeable experience with which one does not think oneself able to cope. But only someone who is ready for everything, who excludes nothing, not even the most enigmatical will live the relation to another as something alive.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Thinking, Doe, Alive

  Rainer Maria Rilke"Miedo a lo inexplicable"

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• Even if one is neither vain nor self-obsessed, it is so extraordinary to be oneself - exactly oneself and no one else - and so unique, that it seems natural that one should also be unique for someone else.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Unique, Self, Natural

  Simone de Beauvoir (1969). “The Woman Destroyed”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• La gente cree que hablar es un signo de pensar. No lo es, en la mayoría de los casos; al contrario, es una evasión mecánica del cuerpo para liberarse de la tensión de pensar, del mismo modo que ejercitar los músculos ayuda al cuerpo a ser temporalmente inconsciente de su peso, su dolor, su cansancio y el presentimiento de su perdición.

  Aleister Crowley

  Dolor, Ejercicio, Pensamiento

  Aleister Crowley (2010). "The Diary of a Drug Fiend", p.7, Weiser Books

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• By dint of railing at idiots, one runs the risk of becoming an idiot oneself.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Running, Risk, Becoming

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• She did not shut it properly because she knew that it is very silly to shut oneself into a wardrobe, even if it is not a magic one.

  C. S. Lewis

  Silly, Magic, Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe

  C. S. LEWIS (1950). "EL LEÓN, LA BRUJA Y EL ARMARIO"

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• Maturity starts with the willingness to give oneself.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Maturity, Giving, Passion And Purity

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• To shut one's eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more safety in a land of pit and precipice.

  Oscar Wilde

  Eye, Land, Safety

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.62, Wordsworth Editions

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• How can the mind be so imperfect?" she says with a smile. I look at my hands. Bathed in the moonlight, they seem like statues, proportioned to no purpose. "It may well be imperfect," I say, "but it leaves traces. And we can follow those traces, like footsteps in the snow." "Where do the lead?" "To oneself," I answer. "That's where the mind is. Without the mind, nothing leads anywhere." I look up. The winter moon is brilliant, over the Town, above the Wall. "Not one thing is your fault," I comfort her.

  Haruki Murakami

  Wall, Winter, Moon

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• La soledad no proviene de no tener gente cerca, sino de ser incapaz de comunicar las cosas que a uno le parecen importantes, o de sostener ciertos puntos de vista que los demás consideran inadmisibles.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Loneliness, Being Alone

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). "Recuerdos, sueños, reflexiones", Random House Inc.

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• If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspiración, Respeto, Ética

  Ayn Rand (2011). "Ayn Rand Colección de novelas", p.783, Penguin

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• So he was deserted. The whole world was clamouring: Kill yourself, kill yourself, for our sakes. But why should he kill himself for their sakes? Food was pleasant; the sun hot; and this killing oneself, how does one set about it, with a table knife, uglily, with floods of blood, - by sucking a gaspipe? He was too weak; he could scarcely raise his hand. Besides, now that he was quite alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in it, an isolation full of sublimity; a freedom which the attached can never know.

  Virginia Woolf

  Blood, Hands, Knives

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.92, Broadview Press

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• To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to the violence of our times.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Peace, Demand

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