OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 3149

self

/sɛlf/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
ser • uno mismo • yo
An individual person as the object of the person's own reflective consciousness (plural selves).
The preposterous altruism too![…]Resist not evil. It is an insane immolation of self—as bad intrinsically as fakirs stabbing themselves or anchorites warping their spines in caves…
The self, the I, is recognized in every act of intelligence as the subject to which that act belongs. It is I that perceive, I that imagine, I that remember, I that attend, I that…