Self-reverence — to revere and respect oneself as one might a god — is no small achievement, as the proliferation of "self-help" programs and pop psychology slogans like "I'm OK, you're OK" would suggest.
It all smacked of self-reverence.
Sure enough, they set the scene yesterday on the margin between self-reference and self-reverence.
The tragedy is that you don't really feel much about Long's practice, other than that it perhaps vaguely inclines towards self-reverence and the shamanistic.
He assumes that most of the audience for this book is familiar with his novels, but his self-reference never becomes self-reverence.
An element of self-reference (and self-reverence) came into play while waiting in the wings were satirists and, worse still, Woody Allen, an admirer whose homages lapsed into the parody threatening the master.
Moreover, he believes that the story "hints at a correlative female counterpart: modesty, caution, refusal, self-reverence and chastity, all exercised in the service of eventual marriage -- fruitful, love-filled, sanctified".
An element of self-reference (and self-reverence) came into play, while waiting in the wings were satirists and, worse still, Woody Allen, an admirer whose homages lapsed into parody.
Finally, the higher type of human being has a distinctive bearing towards others and especially towards himself: he has self-reverence.
Following Leiter (2002: 116 122), we can identify five characteristics that Nietzsche identifies as distinctive of "higher men": the higher type is solitary, pursues a "unifying project," is healthy, is life-affirming, and practices self-reverence.
