The love of liberty isthelove ofothers; thelove of power is the love of ourselves.

-Hazlitt,William
  Political Essays,'The Times Newspaper'.

Natural science does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves; it describes nature as exposed to our method of questioning.

-Heisenberg,Werner
  Physics and Philosophy.

In the lifetime of one person, we went from figuring out where we came from to figuring out how to get rid of ourselves.

-Horner,Jack
  On the 80-year period from Darwin's Origin of Species to the first nuclear bomb. In Time, 26  Apr.

   Let us fix our attention out of ourselves as much as possible; let us chase our imagination to the heavens, or to the utmost limits of the universe; we never really advance a step beyond ourselves, nor can conceive any kind of existence, but those perceptions, which have appeared in that narrow compass.

-Hume, David
  A  Treatise of Human Nature, bk.1, pt.2, section 6.

Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.

-Miller, Henry Valentine
  The World of Sex.

   L'on a beau se cacher a'   soi-me"  me, l'on aime toujours. We vainly conceal from ourselves the fact that we are always in love.

-Pascal, Blaise
c.1653  Discours sur les passions de l'amour (Discourse on the Passions of Love).This is usually attributed to Pascal.

On cesse de s'aimer si quelqu'un ne nous aime. We stop loving ourselves when no one loves us.

-Stae«  l, Germaine Necker, Baronne de
  De l'Allemagne.

For themost of us, if we donot talkof ourselves, orat any rate of the individual circles of which we are the centres, we can talk of nothing. I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.

-Trollope, Anthony
Framley Parsonage, ch.10.