“Long before reaching this kind of stability in meditation, however, one can discover that the sense of self—the sense that there is… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Gabriel did not become Silas all at once. He learned him in fragments— voice, gait, silence, appetite. He learned where to pause… — Valon G Copy Share Image
I wasn't looking to be an Indian brass band, but to be a band that reflected my complete identity as an American.… — Sunny Jain Copy Share Image
“thousands of people have said things about you and you have gathered them. Something your mother said, something your father said, your… — Osho Copy Share Image
“This entails certain corollaries on which true individualism once more stands in sharp opposition to the false individualism of the rationalistic type.… — Friedrich A. Hayek Copy Share Image
These 'philosophers', etc., seem unaware, to give a specific example, that by teaching and preaching 'identity', which is empirically non-existent in this… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
I, on the other hand, am a finished product. I absorb electrical energy directly and utilize it with an almost one hundred… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Neurosis is the natural, logical development of an individual who is comparatively inactive, filled with a personal, egocentric striving for superiority, and… — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
“When I was a child, I always hated being used in my father's sermons, shrunk to a symbol to illustrate some larger… — Patricia Lockwood Copy Share Image
At the core of my work there is this eternal back-and-forth between being confined to one's own individuality and that longing to… — Beat Streuli Copy Share Image
I'm what they call a 'non-black person of color': NBPOC. It's easy and seductive and common to mobilize around these identity issues,… — Vijay Iyer Copy Share Image
Identitarianism assumes that people are condemned to identify with the positive (ethnic/ gender/ nationalistic) predicates they possess, as if their subjectivity were… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
If man puts his honor first in relying upon himself, knowing himself and applying himself, this in self-reliance, self-assertion, and freedom, he… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
“Every person has many identities, and experiences those identities in unique ways, depending on location, time, and the rest of who they… — Sam Killermann Copy Share Image
“It is this outer reach of existential abnegation – the moment where subjective identity deserts itself and becomes enslaved without consciousness of… — Emily Apter Copy Share Image
“I begin to learn there are certain things I shouldn't tell her. Like when we meet boys at Dorrian's and I give… — Kerry Cohen Copy Share Image
“For a young woman today, developing femininity successfully requires meeting three basic demands. The first of these is that she must defer… — Susie Orbach Copy Share Image
“today’s self is restlessly bent on reinvention mainly in order to get rid of a nagging sense of guilt that creates tremendous… — Michael S. Horton Copy Share Image
“For the first time in my life, I actually wished that everyone was the same. And I despised myself for my "differentness"… — Laura Hanna Copy Share Image
I pray for that moment in which I think we can claim to the world that we are now in a different,… — Manmohan Singh Copy Share Image
There are great truths at the foundation of Freemasonry, truths which it is its mission to teach and which is constituting the… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
“For a long while I have believed – this is perhaps my version of Sir Darius Xerxes Cama’s belief in a fourth… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
One senses, in all autobiography, a straining toward perfection, perfection of a kind that connects the individual with a cosmic pattern which,… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
If we are to understand the human condition, and if we are to accept ourselves in all the complexity, self-doubt, extravagance of… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
If my ruling disposition is self-interest, I perceive that everything that happens to me is always for or against my self-interest; if,… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“Pam, my new therapist, who’s like some blissed-out, grown-up, yoga-hippie version of Rain, says that the physical body, the idea of the… — Kate Ellison Copy Share Image
The beauty of the literary art, the grappling with the black church, the wrestling with one's identity in the bosom of a… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Your identity, self-esteem, and awareness of your ego lay the groundwork for your life. How you conduct yourself with others, and whether… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
“It’s true that many overly negative people actually fear letting go of their negativity, and it’s because it has become a part… — Alaric Hutchinson Copy Share Image
“In what way can it act as master? Through scores of incarnations, the ‘self ’ we end up with is derived from… — Austin Osman Spare Copy Share Image
An individual has not begun to live until he can rise above the narrow horizons of his particular individualistic concerns to the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
one must verge on the unknown, write toward the truth hitherto unrecognizable of one’s own sincerity, including the avoidable beauty of doom,… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
The identity of just one thing, the "clash of civilization" view that you're a Muslim or a Hindu or a Buddhist or… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
“For those who suffer disposal, the cost is their very lives. For those of us who survive, there is a creeping indifference… — Michael D. O'Brien Copy Share Image
“That which attracts the world must please and pander to the self-importance of man. The world itself is a vain show, and… — William Kelly Copy Share Image
Also in contemporary Western society the union with the group is the prevalent way of overcoming separateness. It is a union which… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“If one does not make an ego out of gender, one would still know whether one is a man or a woman,… — Rita M. Gross Copy Share Image
We cannot feel strongly toward the totally unlike because it is unimaginable, unrealizable; nor yet toward the wholly like because it is… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
Is it in the interests of Britain to leave or remain in the EU? As we saw in the referendum, there are… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
The backstory to anyone of mixed race is a lifetime spent being incorrectly perceived and choosing either to allow that misperception to… — Wentworth Miller Copy Share Image
