Selfhood Quotes
32 quotes by 28 authors
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Selfhood begins with a walking away, And love is proved in letting go.
— Cecil Day-Lewis
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Transcendence constitutes selfhood.
— Martin Heidegger
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Pour out wine till I become a wanderer from myself; for in selfhood and existence I have felt only fatigue.
— Rumi
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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
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Claim your divine, glorious selfhood. Think it, talk it, live it and it will demonstrate itself in your life.
— Emmet Fox
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...(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
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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
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By the grace of God you are what you are; glory in your selfhood, accept yourself and go on from there.
— Wilferd Peterson
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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Novels are a kind of experiment in selfhood, for the reader as well as for the author.
— Jonathan Dee
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Selfhood Quotes
28 authors contributed a total of 32 Selfhood Quotes, led by these top contributors: