“Evsei Slonim would have seen himself as a member of the intelligentsia, a classless class whose features Nabokov described as""the spirit of… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
Do not feel that you are destined to enlightenment in this life. You have no idea. This is an illusion of selfhood.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Why would one's identity be a matter of feelings? I think that that's a misuse of terms, philosophically. Identity is mind independent.… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
“The smoke shifted direction and I breathed in. Breathed out. On the inhale I was angry. On the exhale…there it was again.… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
I'm at the age where I don't need an acid trip to feel naked... to feel that I don't exist. Now a… — Francesco Clemente Copy Share Image
Look at 4chan culture, which is the ultimate version of shedding your IRL [in real life] identity - you don't even keep… — Arthur Chu Copy Share Image
One always, sooner or later, comes upon a city which is an image of one's inner cities. Fez is an image of… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
The search "Who am I"...ends in the annihilation of the illusory "I" and the Self which remains over will be as clear… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
“Action on behalf of life transforms. Because the relationship between self and the world is reciprocal, it is not a question of… — Robin Wall Kimmerer Copy Share Image
My conception around being a woman in 2016 has definitely been shifting over the past year, because I feel like I'm proud… — Amandla Stenberg Copy Share Image
The majesty of the American Jewish experience is in its success marrying its unique Jewish identity with the larger, liberal values of… — Edgar Bronfman, Sr Copy Share Image
The aggressive incoherence of our common surroundings can be described as entropy made visible. The way we have disposed things on the… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
We rigidify our self-image to portray a certain identity to the world, which is one of the key impediments to authenticity. — Chip Conley Copy Share Image
God created me to be an individual. And I am a Chicago dude that grew up the way I grew up and… — Common Copy Share Image
“There is a whole other world with an entirely different version of me, a me that is not pretty, a me that… — Amy Reed Copy Share Image
My philosophy is, "murder the rapist in your mind so you stop killing yourself." I've seen, in my lifetime, that sexual abuse… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
Once the current of awareness of the self is set afoot, it becomes everlasting and continuous by intensification. — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
I really hate being self-conscious—and being conscious of being self-conscious — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
It was a very easy way to have a group of friends on a very large campus - a sense of identity.… — Claire McCaskill Copy Share Image
There's something about cats' self-sufficiency and their seemingly individualistic ways that I find compelling. — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
I'd really love to meet the guy I'm supposed to be. I'd hire him in a second. — Lee Iacocca Copy Share Image
I know now that most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are not aware of their own individuality, I… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image