„He who is on the Path exists not for himself, but for others; he has forgotten himself, in order that he may serve them.“

— Jiddu Krishnamurti
„The more one forgets himself—by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love—the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself.“
— Viktor E. Frankl
„Man cannot will unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that he is alone, abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no other aim than the one he sets himself, with no other destiny than the one he forges for himself on this earth.“
— Jean Paul Sartre
„in order to make himself thoroughly undesirable, he will speak.“
— Jean Paul Sartre
„...ingenuity was apparently given man in order that he may supply himself in crisis with shapes and sounds with which to guard himself from truth.“
— William Faulkner
„He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.“
— Aristotle