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idiom in many parts of the English-speaking world referring to the comparison of oneself to one's neighbor, where the neighbor serves as a benchmark for...

generally used when referring to the person someone is talking to or unrelated people and are not used when referring to oneself. The omission of suffixes...

Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 38: 187–209. Dickson, Keith. 2009. "Oneself as Others: Aurelius and Autobiography." Arethusa 42.1: 99–125. Gill, Christopher...

unworthiness. However, humility involves having an accurate opinion of oneself and expressing oneself modestly as situations demand, with clear goal orientation,...

nations close to oneself carries a higher chance of success. The battlefields are close to one's domain and as such is easier for one's troops to receive supplies...

therapy that all but guarantee its failure. Conversely, the helper, needing to keep clients in a state of dependency, may be threatened by the prospect of...

folklore and speculative fiction, shapeshifting is the ability to physically transform oneself through unnatural means. The idea of shapeshifting is found...

to surrender oneself is to die to everything and to self, to be no longer concerned with self except to keep it continually turned toward God. To surrender...

way to ground oneself to their mortality, by meditating on death rather than life, it is used to recognize one's mortality in order to use life to decide...

stoves to keep the beverage hot. Bajigur is considered suitable to be consumed in cool highlands, or during cold nights or rainy days to warm oneself. The...

oneself", and so the pleasure that the virtuous person gets from his own life is also found in the life of another virtuous person. "Anyone who is to...

Marcus Tullius Cicero argues that real sapience consists of preparing oneself for all possible incidents and not being surprised by anything, using as...

domains and learn how to define the self. Comparing oneself to others socially is a form of measurement and self-assessment to identify where an individual...

1912). Students often refer to the Fourth Way as "The Work", "Work on oneself", or "The System". The exact origins of some of Gurdjieff's teachings are...

concept of ‘privatus’, which referred to things set apart from what is public; personal and belonging to oneself, and not to the state. Literally, ‘privatus’...

idea that one has to "create oneself" and live in accordance with this self. For an authentic existence, one should act as oneself, not as "one's acts"...

capacity to give an account of itself to others, and respects those limits as symptomatically human. To take seriously one's opacity to oneself in ethical...

that is designed and intended to bind oneself in the future. The term is used in medicine, especially in reference to advance directives (also known...

the private sphere is that domain of one's life in which one works for oneself. In that domain, people work, exchange goods, and maintain their families;...

disunifying oneself from a team, among others. The use of distancing language is primarily subconscious as a means to disengage oneself from acts or...