A man is himself important precisely in proportion that all things seem important to him. - Otto Weininger

That is why man can also never understand himself: For he is himself a timeless act; an act which he performs continuously, and there is no moment in which he might not perform it, as there would have to be to understand himself.

A man is first reverent about himself, and self-respect is the first stage in reverence for all things.

The deepest, the intelligible, part of the nature of man is that part which does not take refuge in causality, but which chooses in freedom the good or the bad.