Deep within Quote by Frederick Lenz

The self is a perpetually recreated neurobiological state.

— Antonio Damasio

The self is coming from a state of pure awareness from the state of being. All the rest that comes about in a outward…

— Aldous Huxley

“The self who is undone in the encounter with the abyss, that is, the preabyssal self, lives with a misguided consciousness. Without having faced…

— An Yountae

No self is of itself alone. It has a long chain of intellectual ancestors. The 'I' is chained to ancestry by many factors... This…

— Erwin Schrodinger

Our sense of self is a kind of construct. It is in some ways like a novel, and it's like a fabric of fictions…

— Dan Chaon

The self... is not an organic thing that has a specific location, whose fundamental fate is to be born, to mature, to die; it…

— Erving Goffman

“The self does not stand alone; as we’ve seen, the self is not a thing, let alone a thing in itself. Rather, we experience…

— Robert W. Fuller

The self plays among the waves of existence. It surfaces, it comes up for a while, and then it disappears again.

— Frederick Lenz

“We need to think of the self as a continuum, a steady story over time. The mind is always searching for similarities, associations, repetitions,…

— Siri Hustvedt

“...afflictions arise from identifying with a false sense of self, whereas great contentment arises from seeing the true nature of things. If one believes…

— Karma Lekshe Tsomo

The self thus becomes aware of itself, at least in its practical action, and discovers itself as a cause among other causes and as…

— Jean Piaget

...by the time we understand the pattern we are in, the definition we are making for ourselves, it's too late to break out of…

— Robert Penn Warren