not oneself

She said this “new” ethic should be based on Thomas Aquinas’s definition of love: willing the good of the other for the sake of that person and not oneself.

They seem not to care, or understand, that the masks are worn primarily to protect others, not oneself.

Provided of course that it affects other people and not oneself.

To write a novel, Murdoch continues, is to quickly discover that “however much one is in the ordinary sense ‘interested in other people’, this interest has left one far short of possessing the knowledge required to create a real character who is not oneself.

It is not oneself but something in the universe that one’s left with.