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  1. A quotation from Montesquieu

    I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
     
    [J’ai la maladie de faire des livres et d’en être honteux quand je les ai faits.]

    Charles-Lewis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755) French political philosopher
    Pensées Diverses [Assorted Thoughts], # 83 / 837 (1720-1755)

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montesquieu/83690/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montesquieu #author #dissatisfaction #selfcontempt #selfcriticism #selfdeprecation #selfdoubt #selfjudgment #selfloathing #selfperception #shame #writer #writing

  2. A quotation from Montesquieu

    I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
     
    [J’ai la maladie de faire des livres et d’en être honteux quand je les ai faits.]

    Charles-Lewis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755) French political philosopher
    Pensées Diverses [Assorted Thoughts], # 83 / 837 (1720-1755)

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montesquieu/83690/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montesquieu #author #dissatisfaction #selfcontempt #selfcriticism #selfdeprecation #selfdoubt #selfjudgment #selfloathing #selfperception #shame #writer #writing

  3. A quotation from Montesquieu

    I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
     
    [J’ai la maladie de faire des livres et d’en être honteux quand je les ai faits.]

    Charles-Lewis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755) French political philosopher
    Pensées Diverses [Assorted Thoughts], # 83 / 837 (1720-1755)

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montesquieu/83690/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montesquieu #author #dissatisfaction #selfcontempt #selfcriticism #selfdeprecation #selfdoubt #selfjudgment #selfloathing #selfperception #shame #writer #writing

  4. A quotation from Montesquieu

    I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
     
    [J’ai la maladie de faire des livres et d’en être honteux quand je les ai faits.]

    Charles-Lewis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755) French political philosopher
    Pensées Diverses [Assorted Thoughts], # 83 / 837 (1720-1755)

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montesquieu/83690/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montesquieu #author #dissatisfaction #selfcontempt #selfcriticism #selfdeprecation #selfdoubt #selfjudgment #selfloathing #selfperception #shame #writer #writing

  5. A quotation from Montesquieu

    I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
     
    [J’ai la maladie de faire des livres et d’en être honteux quand je les ai faits.]

    Charles-Lewis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755) French political philosopher
    Pensées Diverses [Assorted Thoughts], # 83 / 837 (1720-1755)

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montesquieu/83690/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montesquieu #author #dissatisfaction #selfcontempt #selfcriticism #selfdeprecation #selfdoubt #selfjudgment #selfloathing #selfperception #shame #writer #writing

  6. A quotation from Shakespeare

    RICHARD: And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover
       To entertain these fair well-spoken days,
       I am determinèd to prove a villain
       And hate the idle pleasures of these days.

    William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
    Richard III, Act 1, sc. 1, l. 28ff (1.1.28-31) (1592)

    More about this quote: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #shakespeare #williamshakespeare #richardiii #badguy #badperson #selfaffirmation #selfawareness #selfdetermination #selfdirection #selfevaluation #selfperception #selfunderstanding #villain

  7. A quotation from Montaigne

    There is another kind of “glory”: conceiving too high an opinion of our worth. This is an undeserved feeling by which we value ourselves, and that makes us think ourselves different than we are, just as the passion of love lends beauties and graces to the object it embraces and makes those smitten by it — with their judgment blurred and altered — find what they love different, and more perfect, than it is.
     
    [Il y a une autre sorte de gloire, qui est une trop bonne opinion, que nous concevons de nostre valeur. C’est un’affection inconsideree, dequoy nous nous cherissons, qui nous represente à nous mesmes, autres que nous ne sommes. Comme la passion amoureuse preste des beautez, & des graces, au subject qu’elle embrasse ; & fait que ceux qui en sont espris, trouvent d’un jugement trouble & alteré, ce qu’ils aiment, autre & plus parfait qu’il n’est.]

    Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
    Essays, Book 2, ch. 17 (2.17), “Of Presumption [De la Presomption]” (1578) [tr. Atkinson/Sices (2012)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montaigne #micheldemontaigne #ego #glory #pride #selfadmiration #selfapproval #selfassessment #selfdeception #selfdelusion #selfevaluation #selfglorification #selfimage #selflove #selfperception #selfregard #selfrighteousness #selfvalue #selfworth #vainglory #vanity #humility

  8. A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson

    To know what you like is the beginning of wisdom and of old age. Youth is wholly experimental. The essence and charm of that unquiet and delightful epoch is ignorance of self as well as ignorance of life. These two unknowns the young man brings together again and again, now in the airiest touch, now with a bitter hug; now with exquisite pleasure, now with cutting pain; but never with indifference, to which he is a total stranger, and never with that near kinsman of indifference, contentment.

    Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
    Essay (1888-09), “A Letter to a Young Gentleman who Proposes to Embrace the Career of Art,” Scribner’s Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 3

    More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #adulthood #aesthetic #discontent #enthusiasm #experimentation #ignorance #likes #maturity #preferences #selfawareness #selfdevelopment #selfexamination #selfexploration #selfexpression #selfignorance #selfknowledge #selfperception #teen #wisdom #youngadult #youth

  9. A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson

    To know what you like is the beginning of wisdom and of old age. Youth is wholly experimental. The essence and charm of that unquiet and delightful epoch is ignorance of self as well as ignorance of life. These two unknowns the young man brings together again and again, now in the airiest touch, now with a bitter hug; now with exquisite pleasure, now with cutting pain; but never with indifference, to which he is a total stranger, and never with that near kinsman of indifference, contentment.

    Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
    Essay (1888-09), “A Letter to a Young Gentleman who Proposes to Embrace the Career of Art,” Scribner’s Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 3

    More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #adulthood #aesthetic #discontent #enthusiasm #experimentation #ignorance #likes #maturity #preferences #selfawareness #selfdevelopment #selfexamination #selfexploration #selfexpression #selfignorance #selfknowledge #selfperception #teen #wisdom #youngadult #youth

  10. A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson

    To know what you like is the beginning of wisdom and of old age. Youth is wholly experimental. The essence and charm of that unquiet and delightful epoch is ignorance of self as well as ignorance of life. These two unknowns the young man brings together again and again, now in the airiest touch, now with a bitter hug; now with exquisite pleasure, now with cutting pain; but never with indifference, to which he is a total stranger, and never with that near kinsman of indifference, contentment.

    Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
    Essay (1888-09), “A Letter to a Young Gentleman who Proposes to Embrace the Career of Art,” Scribner’s Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 3

    More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #adulthood #aesthetic #discontent #enthusiasm #experimentation #ignorance #likes #maturity #preferences #selfawareness #selfdevelopment #selfexamination #selfexploration #selfexpression #selfignorance #selfknowledge #selfperception #teen #wisdom #youngadult #youth

  11. A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson

    To know what you like is the beginning of wisdom and of old age. Youth is wholly experimental. The essence and charm of that unquiet and delightful epoch is ignorance of self as well as ignorance of life. These two unknowns the young man brings together again and again, now in the airiest touch, now with a bitter hug; now with exquisite pleasure, now with cutting pain; but never with indifference, to which he is a total stranger, and never with that near kinsman of indifference, contentment.

    Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
    Essay (1888-09), “A Letter to a Young Gentleman who Proposes to Embrace the Career of Art,” Scribner’s Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 3

    More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #adulthood #aesthetic #discontent #enthusiasm #experimentation #ignorance #likes #maturity #preferences #selfawareness #selfdevelopment #selfexamination #selfexploration #selfexpression #selfignorance #selfknowledge #selfperception #teen #wisdom #youngadult #youth

  12. A quotation from Eric Hoffer

    To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

    Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
    Passionate State of Mind, Aphorism 151 (1955)

    More info about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/17245/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichoffer #change #growth #know thyself #progress #selfanalysis #selfassessment #selfawareness #selfchange #selfdiscovery #selfevaluation #selfhonesty #selfperception #selfreflection #selfunderstanding

  13. Worth Reading

    Though I am typically more concerned with philosophy and sociology I have a fondness for C. G. Jung. I particularly recommend one of my favorite books on self-perception.


    Unus Nemo


    Tips & Donations


    #psychology #self-perception #unconsious-self

  14. What they tried to control became the quiet beginning of her return.
    Not all rebellion is loud. Some begin with the body remembering itself.

    👉 clickworlddaily.com/2025/06/th

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    #feminism
    #identity
    #selfperception
    #softrebellion
    #life
    #women

  15. Self-awareness is the awareness of ourselves in the external world. Self-perception is the awareness of ourselves within ourselves.

    #philosophy #selfawareness #selfperception

  16. @jimdonegan
    Well, I do not consider the question "I could have done otherwise" quite interesting, because it does not lead very far.

    More interesting would be the question: "In similar circumstances and with the knowledge of tho outcome of my past decision, what decision should I make - especially with respect to the person I want to be, .i.e my #selfperception".

    Out course such things like make a choice between a pizza with tuna or salami is of little relevance in that context.