Eugene Cernan Quotes

What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.

Real life? Well, I just hope mine isn't investigated. They might find that I don't really exist - that I'm just a hologram.

One can never outlive one's vanity.

Celebrity is okay as long as you know it's not about you.

Anyone who thinks they're indispensible is fooling themselves.

The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.

I got too caught up in Hollywood, being so into myself and my image.

Pride is a sin that can readily be seen in others but is rarely admitted in ourselves.

Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing

Man is very vain; he likes to feel that he is responsible for all the favorable things that happen, and he is innocent of all the unfavorable happenings

I read in one fan magazine that I was very self-centered. And I am.

People forget who they are; they always remain with an identity which is not the real self. It is just a projected self which does not exist, but they identify with this projected self appearance.

There is your persona and then there's the real you. I was living inside my persona too much.

Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity; there is no cure for this but experience, if indeed there is any cure for it at all.

You see 'awesome' and I see 'lost.' It's very easy to lose touch with reality when you've got that many people thinking you are more than you really are.

The vain.- We are like shop windows in which we are continually arranging, concealing or illuminating the supposed qualities other ascribe to us - in order to deceive ourselves.

I say me, knowing all the while it's not me.

If the image one holds of one's self contains elements that don't square with reality, one is best advised to let go of them, however difficult that may be.

God alone is satisfied with what He is and can proclaim: "I am what I am." Unlike God, man strives with all his might to be what he is not. He incessantly proclaims: "I am what I am not.

It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.

I know I'm not a self-indulgent idiot; I also know I'm not the second coming of Deepak Chopra. If I had believed either of those, or both, as some people do when they get famous, that's when the mental illness arrives.

I'm as vain as the next guy. I have a facade on right now. But you can't see it, because it's reality-based.

I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity.