“Know that what appears to be Love for an 'other' is really Love of Self because 'other' doesn't exist. So this innermost Love can be given to no 'other'. Love of friends is for the sake of Self, not for body to body. True love has no Lover or Beloved because all Love is Love of Self.” KnowsSelfBodySpiritualSpiritualityGivenLove IsSelf LoveLoversSakeBeloved Book:The Truth Is Source: The Truth Is
“there are four degrees of love: 1) Love of self for self's sake. 2) Love of God for self's sake. 3) Love of God for God's own sake. 4) Love of self for God's sake.” MindHeartSoulSelfFourSelf LoveDegreesSakeGod Love Author:Bernard of Clairvaux
“... those, who from an immoderate and false self-love, study to keep their humanity under, always take care, for their own sakes, to represent poverty to themselves, as something ridiculous, mean, and contemptible.” MeanSelfCareHumanityPovertyStudySelf LoveSakeTake CareRidiculous Author:Mary Collyer
“Self-love is the love of a man's own self, and of everything else for his own sake. It makes people idolaters to themselves, and tyrants to all the world besides.” PeopleMenWorldSelfLove IsSelf LoveSakeTyrannySelfishnessTyrants Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“We now possess four principles of morality: 1) a philosophical: do good for its own sake, out of respect for the law; 2) a religious: do good because it is God's will, out of love of God; 3) a human: do good because it will promote your happiness, out of self-love; 4) a political: do good because it will promote the welfare of the society of which you are a part, out of love of society having regard to yourself. But is this not all one single principle, only viewed from different sides?” HumansDifferentSelfCharacterLawPoliticalSidesReligiousPrinciplesFourSelf LoveMoralityPhilosophicalRegardSakeGods WillGod LoveWelfareDifferent Sides Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg
“The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good: particular affections rest in the external things themselves.” MeanSelfPrinciplesParticularSelf LoveSakeAffection Book:Five Sermons, Preached at the Rolls Chapel and A Dissertation Upon the Nature of Virtue Source: Five Sermons, Preached at the Rolls Chapel and A Dissertation Upon the Nature of Virtue