“colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middle-class nonidentity which usually finds its perfect expression on the outskirts of the campus… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Nobody believes the identities we've made for ourselves. I feel like everybody in the world is fake now - as though people… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“Property was thus appall’d / That the self was not the same / Single nature’s double name / Neither two nor one… — Michael Oakeshott Copy Share Image
“I have come to see clearly that life is more than self. It is more than doing what I want, striving for… — Brother Andrew Copy Share Image
The lives of individuals of the human race form a constant plot, in which every attempt to isolate one piece of living… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Identity politics is universally attractive because it enables failures and weaknesses to be spun as the products of oppression and historical injustice.… — Milo Yiannopoulos Copy Share Image
In conclusion we may say, in view of the confirmation that our study has given of the parallelism between individual and racial… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I had lost confidence and a sense of self. Who am I? Am I a person who cowers in fear at the… — Susannah Cahalan Copy Share Image
Fox News is really two news networks. It's a center right news network that has good, solid, interesting coverage if you're watching… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
I'd be remiss if I didn't say that a lot of my identity was formed around basketball, and after the accident I… — Jay Williams Copy Share Image
Homophobia's just one form of abjection, and wherever you have a marker of deviance - skin colour, gender, gender identity, disability -… — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
That experience of losing home, longing for home, that yearning for meaning and rootedness and identity in a floating world, it's what… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
So, when the discussion about not using the term feminist came up at a conference workshop, I couldn't believe it. The more… — Betty Buckley Copy Share Image
The question "Is this an act of self-love or is it an act of self-sabotage?" is one you must consistently ask yourself… — Debbie Ford Copy Share Image
We are hurtling towards self-destruction at an alarming rate thanks chiefly to an advertising and propaganda system that goads people from infancy… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“You must push through the negativity and self-criticism that dam up your creativity and just let it flow. Be your authentic self.… — Felicity Everett Copy Share Image
The reactions haven't differed; the concerns have been different. When I read for a predominantly Indian audience, there are more questions that… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
We are not passive exhibitors of visual or auditory or tactile images. We have selves. We have a Me that is automatically… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
“Shouldn't we rather recognize that each person is a sort of unconscious anthology of all epochs of man; and that he may… — Nick Joaquín Copy Share Image
We're blind, deaf and dumb. It is only that Self, which is our life force that makes who and what we are.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I think you can find yourself in life perhaps not really being the master of your own life and it is within… — Greg Dulli Copy Share Image
“I'm not what anyone thinks I am. I never was. I didn't have the mouth to put it into words, to say… — Akwaeke Emezi Copy Share Image
“I’m no expert, no natural-born talent, definitely no guru. As you’ll soon learn, only through a colossal experiment in trial and error… — Daniel Stern Copy Share Image
Only as long as we believe in our own identity over time does it make sense for us to make future plans,… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
Italy has turned its back on its political class, and a new language of community, identity, and honesty is filling the gap. — Beppe Grillo Copy Share Image
“He who is controlled by objects Loses possession of his inner self: If he no longer values himself, How can he value… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The psychological basis of the metropolitan type of individuality consists in the intensification of nervous stimulation which results from the swift and… — Georg Simmel Copy Share Image
“It is the tendency of the so-called primitive mind to animate its environment. Modern depth psychology has requested us for years to… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Like most people of my generation, I fell in love with the philosophy of existentialism. There is no particular religious tradition in… — Stanley Elkin Copy Share Image
The integrative tendencies of the individual operate through the mechanisms of empathy, sympathy, projection, introjection, identification, worship- all of which make him… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Men must attempt to develop in themselves and their children liberation from the sense of self. Men must be free from boundaries,… — Luke Rhinehart Copy Share Image
Consciousness makes the individual careful to maintain his own existence; and if this were not so, there would be no surety for… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Fiction is fun because you get to steal an identity and try to make it authentic. — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
Self-realization: No ego, no desires, no weight problems, no tax forms, no death to die, no life to live. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
