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
“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
“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
“[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
“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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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 '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
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
Children need people in order to become human… It is primarily through observing, playing, and working with others older and younger than… — Urie Bronfenbrenner Copy Share Image
“Unmoor the boat, we could go…downriver... History is a collection of found objects washed up through time. Goods, ideas, personalities surface towards… — Jeanette Winterson 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
I felt that just looking at the world in general, there are so many types of people, and some hide who they… — Yoko Taro Copy Share Image
“But even with respect to the most insignificant things in life, none of us constitutes a material whole, identical for everyone, which… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“People can't concieve of a virtue in someone else that they can't coneive in themselves. Instead of believing you're stronger, it's so… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
My parents always put more of an emphasis on who I was as opposed to what I achieved. They were never like,… — Emma Stone Copy Share Image
When I set out to make 'Bourne Identity,' my main goal for the franchise was to create something where it feels like… — Doug Liman Copy Share Image
But who you are is not a concept in the sky, and it's not a record of you accomplishments either. The most… — Barbara Sher Copy Share Image
I think that artists don't make art - the art makes itself through us. I'm not the doer. I'm just along for… — Ezra Miller Copy Share Image
It's like we're suffering from an identity crisis, and that identity is in our arts and the fact that we don't find… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
One of the things people take away from 'Beach Rats' is how incredibly harmful it is to yourself to suppress true identity… — Harris Dickinson Copy Share Image
All you need is already within you, only you must approach your self with reverence and love. Self-condemnation and self-distrust are grievous… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Although skin color is undoubtedly the most salient signal of racial identity in America, other actual or imagined bodily features have also… — Randall Kennedy Copy Share Image
“The way one is envisaged by other people - what easier way is there of envisaging oneself? There is a fatalism in… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
“Valuing names as they do, Realists are sparing with them. They are likely to be known only as Joe or Bill or… — Alexei Panshin Copy Share Image
The al-Qaida cell broken up near Buffalo, N.Y., contains some citizens who also found themselves in Afghanistan, training for the Great All-Around… — James Lileks Copy Share Image
“... no one ever develops and achieves self-awareness in a vacuum, beyond all ears and systems. The period you grow up in… — Václav Havel Copy Share Image
“The best I offer the world is the truth—my highest gift. What the world does with it is not up to me.… — Jen Hatmaker Copy Share Image
“The same is true about the conventional sense of self — the feeling of being a subject inside your head, a locus… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You can let the life and the family you were born into dictate the definition of your very being, regardless of what… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do you believe you can know yourselves if you don't somehow con- struct yourselves? Or that I can know you if I… — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
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