Selfhood Quotes

32 quotes by 28 authors

Selfhood begins with a walking away, And love is proved in letting go. — Cecil Day-Lewis
Transcendence constitutes selfhood. — Martin Heidegger
The Wise Man believes profoundly in silence - the sign of a perfect equilibrium. Silence is the absolute poise or balance of body, mind and… — Charles Alexander Eastman
Individuality in universality is the plan of creation. Each cell has its part in bringing about consciousness. Man is individual and at the same time… — Swami Vivekananda
You will die. You will not live forever. Nor will any man nor any thing. Nothing is immortal. But only to us is it given… — Ursula K. Le Guin
A race of people is like and individual man; until it uses its own talent, takes pride in its own history, expresses its own culture,… — Malcolm X
Pour out wine till I become a wanderer from myself; for in selfhood and existence I have felt only fatigue. — Rumi
Our sense of being a person can come from being drawn into a wide social unit; our sense of selfhood can arise through the little… — Erving Goffman
Claim your divine, glorious selfhood. Think it, talk it, live it and it will demonstrate itself in your life. — Emmet Fox
...(I)ndividual selfhood is expressed in the self's capacity for self-transcendence and not in its rational capacity for conceptual and analytic procedures. — Reinhold Niebuhr
There exists a "fear of freedom" of selfhood, which makes people want to submerge themselves in the mass and confession is one of the obvious… — James A.C. Brown
By the grace of God you are what you are; glory in your selfhood, accept yourself and go on from there. — Wilferd Peterson
He watched a catbird hopping around in an azalea that was readying itself to bloom; he envied the bird for knowing nothing of what he… — Jonathan Franzen
As a teenager I had never been able to accept the fact of having to go to the back of a bus or sit in… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Most lives are a flight from selfhood. Most prefer the truths of the stable. You stick your head into the stanchions and munch contentedly until… — Frank Herbert
There is no point in being a responsible member of society, nor is there any point in being an irresponsible member of society. Both are… — Frederick Lenz
In a culture of technique, we often confuse authority with power, but the two are not the same. Power works from the outside in, but… — Parker J. Palmer
Novels are a kind of experiment in selfhood, for the reader as well as for the author. — Jonathan Dee
We now spend a good deal more on drink and smoke than we spend on education. This, of course, is not surprising. The urge to… — Aldous Huxley
Knowing one was comprised of recycled matter only and that selfhood was a delusion did not take away the aching of the heart. — Sebastian Faulks

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