The secret of my full identity is hidden in Him. He alone can make me who I am, or rather who I… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“We identify with the inner system that takes the crazy chaos of life and spins out of it seemingly logical and consistent… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
When needs and means become abstract in quality, abstraction is also a character of the reciprocal relation of individuals to oneanother. This… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
“The Art of Self, I've learned, is indispensable to material success but corrosive to the human spirit. What's more, much of the… — Lionel Fisher Copy Share Image
Singleness would be recognized as a vital stage of the journey to maturation, a time to learn about who we are, to… — Harville Hendrix Copy Share Image
“You are a man of extreme passion, a hungry man not quite sure where his appetite lies, a deeply frustrated man striving… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
I embrace the concept of enlightened self-interest - that in doing something for others, people also reap profound benefits for themselves. It… — Simon McKeon Copy Share Image
I think I've been wishing for celebrity for so long that I've got used to being someone who's petitioning the establishment for… — Toby Young Copy Share Image
It's actually more than 700 case studies that show that, especially in times of crisis, we show our best selves. And we… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
“...it’s just another one of those things I don’t understand: everyone impresses upon you how unique you are, encouraging you to cultivate… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Social class positioning influences all aspects of everyday interaction – how to talk, if to talk and when, whom to trust, whether… — Susan T. Fiske Copy Share Image
“Furthermore, a society with no sense of the past, with no sense of the human role as significant not merely in experiencing… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
The daimonic refers to the power of nature rather than the superego, and is beyond good and evil. Nor is it man's… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“Mentally healthy individuals should be in touch with their own identity and their own feelings; they should be oriented toward the future… — George E. Vaillant Copy Share Image
“Our minds have this strange ability to make associations using ourselves as a reference point. They create our identities based on our… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
It is a mistake for women to think that life begins only with marriage. A woman can and must have an identity… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
“The essential idea behind personal construct theory is this: All individuals are essentially scientists erecting and testing hypotheses about the world and… — Brian Little Copy Share Image
When I looked at 'Dear White People,' you have four African-American students who are all very different and who are trying to… — Teyonah Parris Copy Share Image
“While we maintain the unity of the human species, we at the same time repel the depressing assumption of superior and inferior… — Alexander von Humboldt Copy Share Image
I think that there are times when Puertoricans think, "Oh, we are blessed with the relationship with the U.S." But the end… — Oscar Lopez Rivera Copy Share Image
When he whom I love travels with me or sits a long while holding me by the hand, … Then I am… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
If you want to control the world you need to control the oil. Therefore the destruction of Iraq is a prerequisite to… — Saddam Hussein Copy Share Image
Childhood has been idealised as a lost garden paradise to which we can never return. We are excluded from this world of… — Loretta Lux Copy Share Image
“Now shame is the only direct attack on conceit, the defensive image of oneself. Conceit is the common denominator of the Organization… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
Awareness born of love is the only force that can bring healing and renewal. Out of our love for another person, we… — John Welwood Copy Share Image
Without the presence of black people in America, European-Americans would not be "white"-- they would be Irish, Italians, Poles, Welsh, and other… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Without being bound to the fulfillment of promises, we would never be able to keep our identities; we would be condemned to… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
To challenge the dominance of identity politics, we need to champion an alternative universalist approach. This wouldn't mean bland similarity, with everybody… — Munira Mirza Copy Share Image
“The Familiar Squatter by Stewart Stafford Stranger at a ranting roundabout, Changeling deep in a cranial fog, An infant brooked with abandon,… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
Do not accept the roles that society foists on you. Re-create yourself by forging a new identity, one that commands attention and… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
I admire self-awareness more than probably any other quality, and I think in terms of what qualities are "good" in a person,… — Marie Calloway Copy Share Image
Individuals inherit a particular space within an interlocking set of social relationships; lacking that space, they are nobody, or at best a… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
“If your rely only on experience, you'll simply keep applying old solutions to new problems. I know a lot of people who… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The potential significance of Black feminist thought goes far beyond demonstrating that African-American women can be theorists. Like Black feminist practice, which… — Patricia Hill Collins Copy Share Image
“We keep coming back to the question of representation because identity is always about representation. People forget that when they wanted white… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
“We acquire a sense of worth either by realizing our talents, or by keeping busy, or by identifying ourselves with something apart… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“The hilarious irony is that Buddhists - who deny the existence of the self - are the most self-obsessed people you can… — Jack Tanner Copy Share Image
“Central to Möser's view of the human world was "honor," a notion that was as important to corporatist society as the notion… — Jerry Z. Muller Copy Share Image
The new culture war is about national identity rather than religion and 'transcendent authority.' It focuses on which groups the United States… — E. J. Dionne Copy Share Image
Near the end of the 1700s, philosophers began to declare that humans were rational individuals. People were flattered by being recognized as… — Alex Pentland Copy Share Image
