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The material world has only been constructed at the price of taking the self, that is, mind, out of it, removing it; mind is…

— Erwin Schrodinger

No one has ever seen the self. It has no visible shape, nor does it occupy measurable space. It is an abstraction, like other…

— Irving Howe

“I saw clearly that the idea of the self—of distinction, of me, of an inner and outer—is just an illusion,” he said, “something created…

— Emily Esfahani Smith

The Self is self-luminous without darkness and light, and is the reality which is self-manifest. Therefore, one should not think of it as this…

— Ramana Maharshi

The mind commands the mind to will, and yet, though it be itself, it minds not. What is this monstrous thing? And why is…

— Saint Augustine

From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think there is only one practical consequence: we have to create ourselves…

— Michel Foucault

The self is not a thing, but a process.

— Thomas Metzinger

A lot of people thought the sense of self was hard-wired, but it's not at all. It can be changed very quickly, and that's…

— Miguel Nicolelis

If you make something, it's an artifact. It's something that somebody or some corporate entity has caused to come into being. A great many…

— William Gibson

Mind is a wonderful force inherent in the Self.

— Ramana Maharshi

The material body has a practical reality that is accessible. It is here and now, and we can do something with it. However, we…

— B.K.S. Iyengar

Self is the opaque veil that hides the Face of God from us. It can be removed only in spiritual experience, never by mere…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer