There is no self-knowledge except historical self-knowledge. No one knows what he is if he doesn't know what his contemporaries are. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
By arguing that the bundle theory does not entail and is not committed in any way to the principle of identity of… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Copy Share Image
Growing up, I was confused about my identity: I felt like I wasn't black enough to be black, but not white enough… — Mabel Copy Share Image
The question is whether personal freedom is worth the terrible effort, the never-lifted burden and risks of self-reliance. — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
“Our goal will be to have relationships with both men and women that do not operate at the expense of the self,… — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
Selecting a challenge and meeting it creates a sense of self-empowerment that becomes the ground for further successful challenges. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
All ideas about identity, of course, fit perfectly into the social media wonderland we live in. They seem to really connect. There's… — Vijay Seshadri Copy Share Image
There are insights that can be born only of your own pain, and they are the most precious. Seek [within] the undiscovered… — Janusz Korczak Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, I wonder … Are we all as identical on our way out of the Earth...like the way we all came into… — Tina Sequeira Copy Share Image
all outcast peoples struggle to be recognized as individuals. The damage of oppression is that it robs you of your individuality. You're… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
“I find it hard to talk about myself. I'm always tripped up by the eternal who am I? paradox. Sure, no one… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
At the same time women are putting on the headscarf, they are also going to work, to education, increasingly vocal in the… — Munira Mirza Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I used to live in New York City. There was a guy named Michael Alig. He used… — Jared Leto Copy Share Image
However, because of your interconnectedness with all things, other beings still have a problem, and when you realize that you have no… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
“The ego isn't a bad thing. If we didn't develop a strong ego, a strong sense of self, we wouldn't be able… — Paul Levy Copy Share Image
It is often by a trivial, even an anecdotal decision, that we direct our activities into a certain channel, and thus determine… — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
The self-anointed media elite among us believe, somewhat self-servingly, that not only the act, or process of making a profit is positively… — Lachlan Murdoch Copy Share Image
But the European Union does not have a concept of national identity. It was set up to abolish that idea, not to… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“The end comes to all of us...but the end comes quicker to those who do not live their lives as they choose.… — Christopher John Farley Copy Share Image
As I noticed feelings and thoughts appear and disappear, it became increasingly clear that they were just coming and going on their… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
Belief in self gives necessary impetus to confidence. It catalyzes inherent capacity to maximum and gives wings of passion to make successful… — Dr Anil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
In contrast to how a child belongs in the world, adult belonging is never as natural, innocent, or playful. Adult belonging has… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
Everything in life is drawing, if you want. Drawing is quintessential to knowing the self. Art that survives from one generation to… — Richard Tuttle Copy Share Image
The persona in my stories may be truer to my "real" self than any alleged objective, factual "I" that I could replicate… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
Half the wrong conclusions at which mankind arrive are reached by the abuse of metaphors, and by mistaking general resemblance or imaginary… — Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston Copy Share Image
We miraculously become what we read. The mind is the sculptor of ones-self, amazingly creating the essence of who we are. — Johnny Luckett Copy Share Image
The self is a relation which relates itself to its own self, or it is that in the relation that the relation… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I can’t change who I am, no matter how much I want to. The guilt and the self-hatred is frustrating and I’m… — J.B. Salsbury Copy Share Image
One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We live in a world where great incompatibles co-exist: the human scale and the superhuman scale, stability and mobility, permanence and change,… — Kenzo Tange Copy Share Image
All the athletes are individuals. This isn't a team sport. We all have our own styles, our own clothing preferences and our… — Nick Goepper Copy Share Image
One must love humanity in order to reach out into the unique essence of each individual: no one can be too low… — Georg Buchner Copy Share Image
“But who have the ability to know what will fit into a new individual? And who can say to someone else what… — Björn Afzelius Copy Share Image
What a lonely species we are, searching for signals of life from other galaxies, adopting companion animals, visiting parks and zoos to… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
The English are worried about the Euro being brought in because of loss of national identity and rising prices. In Scotland, people… — Frankie Boyle Copy Share Image
A lot of people thought the sense of self was hard-wired, but it's not at all. It can be changed very quickly,… — Miguel Nicolelis Copy Share Image
A master blesses calamity, for the master knows that from the seeds of disaster (and all experience) comes the growth of self. — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Know this also to be one of the spiritual practices, a discipline for God - realisation. Its aim also is Self -… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Self-exposure is commendable in art only when it is of a quality and complexity that allows other people to learn about themselves… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I believe deeply that every one of us has an individual talent or trait that can be used to make a difference… — Jeff Orlowski Copy Share Image
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