The culture in which you parent, mentor, or educate boys exhorts them to be individualistic and group-oriented at once, but does not… — Michael Gurian Copy Share Image
“And thus woman has been definitely established as the Other. Western mythology itself was a patriarchal construct; through its portrayal of woman… — Doris Meyer Copy Share Image
“In the early nineteenth century, a new culture—a new idea about what to hope for—emerged for many Americans, centered around the independent… — Joshua Wolf Shenk Copy Share Image
There is no real independent self, aloof from other human beings, inspecting the world, inspecting other people. You are, in fact, connected… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
“You are a single woman; you intend to remain one. You’ve acquired enough sexual experience to feel you belong to your times.… — Margo Jefferson Copy Share Image
Independent self-reliant people would be a counterproductive anachronism in the collective society of the future where people will be defined by their… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“You’ have to ‘see’ what ‘Chandubhai’ is doing; that is prurshartha (real independent Self effort). What is illusory effort? ‘What inner intent… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“The traditional hospital practice of excluding parents ignored the importance of attachment relationships as regulators of the child’s emotions, behaviour and physiology.… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“The middle-class standard of the independent self has increasingly become the default American standard for how to think, feel and act in… — Susan T. Fiske Copy Share Image
“Some people think, "Through regarding the aggregates as impermanent and so on, the clinging to a self that is permanent, single, and… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
“From this premise, the usual conclusions follow: humankind is now separated from the true and the real; its destiny is to arrive… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
It is solely by risking life that freedom is obtained; . . . the individual who has not staked his or her… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
The idea of absolute freedom is fiction. It's based on the idea of an independent self. But in fact, there's no such… — Peter Coyote Copy Share Image
