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oneself Definition

one·self (wun′self′, wunz′-)

a person's own self

oneself Idioms

be oneself

  1. to function physically and mentally as one normally does
  2. to be natural or sincere

by oneself

alone; unaccompanied; withdrawn

come to oneself

  1. to recover one's senses
  2. to recover one's capacity for sound judgment
oneself Quotes

   Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself.

—Didion,Joan

What is hell? Hell is oneself, Hell is alone, the other figures in it Merely projections. There is nothing to escape from And nothing to escape to.One is always alone.

—Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)

The desire not to be impinged upon, to be left to oneself, has been the markof high civilisation both on the part of individuals and communities.

—Berlin, Sir Isaiah

   Vous savez bien que l'amour, c'est avant tout le don de soi! Above all, you must understand that love is the gift of oneself!

—Anouilh,Jean

Ex virtute absoluto agere nihil aliud in nobis est, quam ex ductu Rationis agere, vivere, suum esse conservare (haec tria idem significant) ex fundamento proprium utile quaerendi. To act absolutely according to virtue is nothing else in us than to act under the guidance of reason, to live so, and to preserve one's being (these three have the same meaning) onthebasis of seeking what isusefulto oneself.

—Spinoza, Baruch also known as Benedict de Spinoza