Weekend Words: Self
Not to be outdone by OxfordDictionaries.com, which, as reported by Hyperallergic's Alicia Eler, has selected "selfie" as its new Word of the Year, Weekend Words respectfully centers on the self.
Not to be outdone by OxfordDictionaries.com, which, as reported by Hyperallergic’s Alicia Eler, has selected “selfie” as its new Word of the Year, Weekend Words respectfully centers on the self:
“Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.”
—H. L. Mencken
“Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.”
—Lord (George Gordon) Byron
“Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.”
—Johann von Goethe
“The self is hateful.”
—Blaise Pascal, Pensees
“It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self.”
—George Eliot, Middlemarch
“He who despises himself nevertheless esteems himself as a self-despiser.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche
“We are all serving a life-sentence in the dungeon of self.”
—Cyril Connolly, The Unquiet Grave
