Distinction between species and specimen is very much like the distinction between images and actual pictures, or, you know, objects that have… — W. J. T. Mitchell Copy Share Image
“We are being called upon to act against a prevailing culture, to undermine our own entrenched tendency to accumulate and to consume,… — Lyanda Lynn Haupt Copy Share Image
“A person who is brilliantly talented and successful at work but irrational and irresponsible in his or her private life may want… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
“I don’t subscribe to the notion of seeing no color, that we’re all the same and race doesn’t exist. It’s a social… — Simon S. Tam Copy Share Image
..."Fun?" you ask. "Weren't feminists these grim-faced, humorless, antifamily, karate-chopping ninjas who were bitter because they couldn't get a man?" Well, in… — Susan J. Douglas Copy Share Image
“Self-consciousness, however, does hinder the experience of the present. It is the one instrument that unplugs all the rest. So long as… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Once more I realize that solitude is my element, and the reason is that extreme awareness of other people (all naturally solitary… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Deep within the individual is a vast reservoir of untapped power awaiting to be used. no person can have the use of… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
“Peace or harmony between the sexes and individuals does not necessarily depend on a superficial equalization of human beings; nor does it… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“In the heroic effort of the individual to attain universality, in the attempt to transcend the curse of individuation and to become… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Questioning this most dearly held core of the Dutch sense of self not only is felt as a direct attack, it also… — Gloria Wekker Copy Share Image
“For I am—or I was—one of those people who pride themselves in on their willpower, on their ability to make a decision… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
I'm thinking of writing a children's story about a leaf on a tree who arrogantly insists he's a self-made, independent leaf. Then… — Chuck Lorre Copy Share Image
“Don’t try to present your art by making other people read or hear or see or touch it; make them feel it.… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“Relatedness - whether imagined or lived out face-to-face - is a social fact, and it is not limited to "kinship" as mapped… — Naomi Leite Copy Share Image
In fact, blockchain has the potential to fundamentally change how we share information, buy and sell things, interact with government, prove our… — Julie Sweet Copy Share Image
There can be no more thrilling idea of intimacy that connecting with someone through the agency of the written word. Here we… — Will Self Copy Share Image
Chief among our gains must be reckoned this possibility of choice, the recognition of many possible ways of life, where other civilizations… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare’s oft-quoted advice, “To thine own self be true,” runs deep in our philosophical DNA. Many of us are uncomfortable with the… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“The adoptee benefits because his collective parents are permitted to grow secure in their particular roles in his life. His adoptive parents… — Kathleen Silber Copy Share Image
Some argue that even physical databases were open to abuse and fake passports or driving licenses were fairly common. But technology, coupled… — Sucheta Dalal Copy Share Image
In the '60s - and right up to the present day - the identity of a member of the British Secret Services… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
“[On technology:] A realm of intimate, personal power is developing -- power of the individual to conduct his own education, find his… — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I still feel that there are two of me: one clean, flawless picture, the other imperfect and cracked; one boy, one… — Abigail Tarttelin Copy Share Image
“Individual self should be a poor miserable thing if it were not essentially connected with the Universal Life. We can always enjoy… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“What is self and what is other may be a question of the person's 'biology,' but it is equally a question of… — Robert Kegan Copy Share Image
People are less certain of their national identities or their place in the world. It starts looking different and disorienting. And there… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
When i was younger I was much more self focussed. I was worried about my self-image. I thought I was too fat.… — Judith Durham Copy Share Image
It is the cult of self that is killing the United States. This cult has within it the classic traits of psychopaths:… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
“I wonder how much of a person is simply fabricated by others,” she said. “And think about this: None of us see… — Anne Frasier Copy Share Image
How can you develop a self-concept linked to your untapped potential? First, you can decide on the kind of life you would… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's this really amazing quote from Jim Jarmusch about celebrating your theft that I think has become more and more prominent in… — Alan Palomo Copy Share Image
The philosopher Descartes believed he had found the most fundamental truth when he made his famous statement: "I think, therefore I am."… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The spirit for me is the eternal self. And when one incarnates, an aspect comes with that incarnation, that's called the soul.… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
The denial of "self" challenges only the notion of a static self independent of body and mind-not the ordinary sense of ourself… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
Regimes are modes of self-discipline, but are not solely constituted by the orderings of convention in day-to-day life; they are personal habits,… — Anthony Giddens Copy Share Image
It is impossible to talk of respect for students for the dignity that is in the process of coming to be, for… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
If what is best in mankind, and what its progress depends on, manifests itself primarily in the individual and only secondarily in… — Louis J. Halle Copy Share Image
The 'I' casts off the illusion of the 'I' and yet remains 'I'. Such is the paradox of Self-realization. The Realized do… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
That whole Deep End experience of finding yourself with the dead body: you know you didn't kill it, but you know if… — Tilda Swinton Copy Share Image
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