The memoir was a very personal book. I wrote it as a personal journey and search about who my father was and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“The trick is to keep cutting the present off from the past. In this way, you can try to deny the fact… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“The Infinite One cannot be torn apart from itself. It is our personification of good, our belief that it belongs to a… — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
“ [When asked about the dangers of Internet trolls being able to say whatever they want because of false profiles] What interests… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“life had been building potential, potential that would now go unrealized. I had planned to do so much, and I had come… — Paul Kalanithi Copy Share Image
“One way of approaching the question about what makes a human being the same person over time would be to point out… — Nigel Warburton Copy Share Image
For some of us, books are intrinsic to our sense of personal identity. — John Updike Copy Share Image
“Unlike 'other' religious belief systems in competition with Christianity, we have not been called to become 'absorbed' into the deity but rather… — R. Alan Woods Copy Share Image
Community cannot take root in a divided life. Long before community assumes external shape and form, it must be present as seed… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Ever since I was a child, I always had insecurity or suspicions about my own personal identity. That's why I started going… — Mamoru Oshii Copy Share Image
“If memory is the thread of personal identity, history is the thread of community identity.” — Carter Lindberg Copy Share Image
“The more obsessed with personal identity campus liberals become, the less willing they become to engage in reasoned political debate. Over the… — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image
“Our understanding of the sociology of knowledge leads to the conclusion that the sociologies of language and religion cannot be considered peripheral… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
For the left-leaning, political identity is liable to be closely intertwined with personal identity. The left is collusive, if not presumptuous: should… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Most Jews, like most rational persons, know that their personal identity and their ethnic identity are not one and the same. — David Novak Copy Share Image
The emptiness I speak about is not the emptiness the mind imagines. It is not blank. Your body can continue expressing in… — Mooji Copy Share Image
“When you have a memorable story about who you are and what your mission is, your success no longer depends on how… — Blake Mycoskie Copy Share Image
Our sense of being a person can come from being drawn into a wide social unit; our sense of selfhood can arise… — Erving Goffman Copy Share Image
We were at a kibbutz, and we were at a Shabbat service, and I opened up the prayer book, and on the… — Jason Kander Copy Share Image
“Disclosing my real thoughts and feelings is risky. Disclosing what I really think and feel frees up energy and expands possibilities. Most… — Susan Scott Copy Share Image
“In God's plan, our quest for personal identity is meant to drive us back to him as Creator so that we find… — Timothy S. Lane Copy Share Image
“[...]And his head is on fire with new things[...]he called himself the little blue hermit, scuttling across the sand in search of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“"Blind nationalism, like a distorting mirror at a fairground, bends the critical capacity of the beholder; and those who distinguish their personal… — Tim Tzouliadis Copy Share Image
“An Apostle can never come to himself in such a way that he becomes conscious of his apostolic calling as a factor… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
In the words of the late Francis Crick...You, your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
