UNDSELF

MARIFEL B. BERMEO TGE01

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PLATO
“The first and the best victory is to conquer self.”
Explanation: One of the most shameful things is to be conquered, much worse by yourself. To
overcome the greatest obstacle in your life, you have be able to overcome yourself. Let go of
self-doubt and your ego, and learn to have control and discipline over yourself. Once you
overcome it, it is your first step to the realization of a bright future.

“The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.”
Explanation: Do not let less competent people rule over you if you know you are the most
competent person.

SAINT AUGUSTINE
“For what is the self complacement man but a slave to his own self-praise.”
Explanation: Being a complacent person makes you arrogant that sometimes you overlook the
fact that you're wrong. Self-praise will also lead you to condescend.

“Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you
were going to die tomorrow.”
Explanation: The body and soul are the most precious things anyone can have. We take care of
the most precious things for us.
REŃE DESCARTES
“I think therefore I am.”
Explanation: Having a mindset or a goal is the first step to reaching it. Think and put your mind
into it to achieve what you want to become.

“Everything is self evident.”

Explanation: Everything is a matter of common sense.

JOHN LOCKE
“The Self is the thinking thing, inwardly convinced of its own shares, which feels pleasure and
pain, which is capable of happiness and misery, and hence is concerned for himself, as far as this
consciousness may extend.”
Explanation: If you know your capabilities and ur'e consciousness is alive, you are accountable
of your own

“Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.”
Explanation: Man always have a precious property they ought to keep and protect.

DAVID HUME
“What we call a mind is nothing but a heap or collection of different perceptions”
TERENCE M. PENELHUM
The Southwestern Journal of Philosophy
Vol. 7, No. 2, HUME ISSUE (SUMMER, 1976), pp. 9-23
Explanation: The mind is a variable of a million things, subjective or not, which we cannot
understand.
“But there is no impression constant and invariable. Pain and pleasure, grief and joy, passions
and sensations succeed each other, and never all exist at the same time. It cannot, therefore, be
from any of these impressions, or from any other, that the idea of self is derived; and
consequently there is no such idea”
Explanation: Self worth is not based on your current situation. Every situation constantly
changes. A certain predicament will neither define you nor any successful event.

IMMANUEL KANT
“Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.”
Explanation: Be able to stand your point and defend it with reason.

“Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.”
Explanation: The universe and humanity are two of the most wonderful things God has made.

SIGMUND FREUD
“The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.”
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Explanation: Bottled emotions tend to overfill and come out worse.

“Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier
ways.”
Explanation: Humans only know 1/7th of the mind's capacity.

GILBERT RYLE
“In searching for self, one cannot simultaneously be the hunter and the haunted.”
Explanation: Knowing yourself even more can have a lot of challenges to encounter, it may be
you’re the one searching for yourself or you’re the one haunted by the truth in yourself.
“My today’s self perpetually slips out of any hold of it that I may try to take.”
Explanation: Trying to overcome the negativity inside you every day is a challenge.

PATRICIA CHURCHLAND
“To understand the mind, we must understand the brain.”
Explanation: Having a positive mindset can lead a person to discover more about itself and life.

“Brains are not magical; they are casual machines.”

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MAURICE MERLEAU-PONTY
“We know not through our intellect but through our experience.”
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“The body is our general medium for having a world.”

Explanation: The progress around the world is based on each person’s hands.