I am not a communist first and an individualist second. I am an individualist first, and I don't mean this in the shallow, purely egotistical sense o….
If your parents are billionaires, that might actually be an obstacle to your own happiness and self-development. If you go to Oxford or Harvard, that….
One can study what exists and how consciousness functions; but one cannot analyze (or “prove”) existence as such, or consciousness as such. These are….
We are on strike, we, the men of the mind. We are on strike against self-immolation. We are on strike against the creed of unearned rewards and unrew….
how ridiculous we often are in our negations, our strutting self importance, our penchant for making labels and sticking them on people. As though la….
What is originality? It is being one's self, and reporting accurately what we see and are..
There is provided an escape from the narrowness and poverty of the individual life, and the possibility of a life which is other and larger than our ….
Self-discipline is a great time-saver; it is the ability to make yourself work on only those things that are most important to you..
It now seemed to me that all my other guesses had been only self-pleasing dreams spun out of my wishes, but now I was awake..
Until you have given up yourself to Him, you will not have a real self..
There is no feeling in this world to be compared with self-reliance--do not sacrifice that to anything else..
If tempted by something that feels 'altruistic,' examine your motives and root out that self-deception. Then, if you still want to do it, wallow in i….
Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human..
The full acting out of the self's surrender to God therefore demands pain: this action, to be perfect, must be done from the pure will to obey, in th….
If you want to create something that's worth doing you have to self-edit from the get-go. You really must be careful and selective with whom you work….
A man is first reverent about himself, and self-respect is the first stage in reverence for all things..
True humility is more like self-forgetfulness than false modesty..
If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness..
The search for the purpose of life has puzzled people for thousands of years. That’s because we typically begin at the wrong starting point—ourselves….
Happiness is not to be sought in solitude or in busy centers. It is in the Self..
Tis easy to break an idol, very easy: to regard the self as easy to subdue is folly, folly..