Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.

The more one forgives himself – by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love – the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself.

When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.

The prophet himself stands under the judgment which he preaches. If he does not know that, he is a false prophet.

But it did not all happen in a day, this giving over of himself, body and soul, to the man-animals. He could not immediately forego his wild heritage and his memories of the Wild. There were days when he crept to the edge of the forest and stood and listened to something calling him far and away.

I’m afraid Mr. Everhard is right,” he said. “LAISSEZ-FAIRE, the let-alone policy of each for himself and devil take the hindmost. As Mr. Everhard said the other night, the function you churchmen perform is to maintain the established order of society, and society is established on that foundation.” “But that is not the teaching of Christ!” cried the Bishop. “The.

Weedon Scott had set himself the task of redeeming White Fang – or rather, of redeeming mankind from the wrong it had done White Fang.

A man does not serve God when he prays, for it is himself he is trying to serve.

No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.

Every man has a vocation to be someone: but he must understand clearly that in order to fulfill this vocation he can only be one person: himself

Four years ago in speaking of a Jewish nation one ran the risk of being regarded ridiculous. Today he makes himself ridiculous who denies the existence of a Jewish nation.

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

Since man cannot live without miracles, he will provide himself with miracles of his own making. He will believe in witchcraft and sorcery, even though he may otherwise be a heretic, an atheist, and a rebel.

I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.

Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.

It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.

Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.

He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.

He who hates himself is not humble.

The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.

Animals can be driven crazy by placing too many in too small a pen. Homo sapiens is the only animal that voluntarily does this to himself.

It is impossible for anyone to be responsible for another person’s behavior. The most you or any leader can do is to encourage each one to be responsible for himself.

A leader puts himself last then he sticks out.

Seeing God without seeing the Self, one sees only mental image. Only he who has seen Himself has seen God, since he has lost individuality, and now sees nothing but god.

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

A healer of others, himself diseased.

For he who gives no fuel to fire puts it out, and likewise he who does not in the beginning nurse his wrath and does not puff himself up with anger takes precautions against it and destroys it.

God loves everyone in the world who doesn’t love himself. Does God love God?

When a mad man walks naked, it is his kinsmen who feel shame, not himself.

I think you may judge of a man’s character by the persons whose affection he seeks. If you find a man seeking only the affection of those who are great, depend upon it he is ambitious and self-seeking; but when you observe that a man seeks the affection of those who can do nothing for him, but for whom he must do everything, you know that he is not seeking himself, but that pure benevolence sways his heart.

Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again.

She was desperate and she was choosey at the same time and, in a way, beautiful, but she didn’t have quite enough going for her to become what she imagined herself to be.

It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing how much the whole tragedy originates in himself, and how he continually feeds it and keeps it going

No man ever listened himself out of a job

Man is a universe within himself

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.

Do not feel sorry for me if I am gone

Whoever conquers himself knows deep happiness that fills the heart with joy.

The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history

Every one is more or less master of his own fate

The fox condemns the trap, not himself

He who gives his labor for money sells himself and puts himself in the rank of slaves.

I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. It’s because of them I’m doing it myself.

Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles

Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them

God may not explain Himself, but He will reveal Himself.