The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

The frontiers of knowledge in the various fields of our subject are expanding at such a rate that work as hard as one can one finds oneself further and further away from an understanding of the whole.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open except yourself.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

When one takes action for others one's own suffering is transformed into the energy that can keep one moving forward a light of hope illuminating a new tomorrow for oneself and others is kindled.

To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself.

The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander to do.

To think the world therefore a general Bedlam or place of madmen and oneself a physician is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination and the way to happiness.

Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never in any case regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit.

There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

When you are not treated seriously you develop comically. Its sense of oneself is so fractured and fragile that it's like the picked-on kid who has to become funny.

As we know forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.

To understand is to forgive even oneself.

Not to like ice cream is to show oneself uninterested in food.

The questions which one asks oneself begin at least to illuminate the world and become one's key to the experience of others.

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.