Art Quote by Eric Hoffer

“The idea of autonomy denies that we are born into a world that existed prior to us. It posits an essential aloneness; an autonomous…

— Matthew B. Crawford

“Man was created as a being whose very existence is derived from and dependent upon a Creator whom he must acknowledge as such and…

— Jay E. Adams

[Having] appropriated to itself all conscious intelligence in the universe ...Man faces the existential crisis of being a solitary and mortal conscious ego thrown…

— Richard Tarnas

“The One who attains the awareness that, 'This is not my inherent nature;' He constantly has the awareness of the Self and the non-Self!”

— Dada Bhagwan

A self that is only differentiated - not integrated - may attain great individual accomplishments, but risks being mired in self-centered egotism. By the…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“This uniqueness and singleness which distinguishes each individual and gives a meaning to his existence has a bearing on creative work as much as…

— Viktor E. Frankl

“Man is a world-forming being, a being that actively constitutes his own world, but when everything is always already fully coded, the active constituting…

— Lars Fr. H. Svendsen

The person who gives up his individual self and becomes an automaton, identical with millions of other automatons around him, need not feel alone…

— Erich Fromm

“If the individual realizes his self by spontaneous activity and thus relates himself to the world, he ceases to be an isolated atom; he…

— Erich Fromm

“Individuality, conceived as a temporal development involves uncertainty, indeterminacy, or contingency. Individuality is the source of whatever is unpredictable in the world....genuine time, if…

— John Dewey

In philosophy an individual is becoming himself.

— Bernard Lonergan

The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life,…

— Bertrand Russell