Accounts Quote by Frederick Lenz

When true self-remembering comes, one does not want to alter oneself, or others; one somehow rises above their weaknesses and one's own. There can…

— Rodney Collin

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

Attraction and aversion create a sense of self. There is no self. They are just thoughts. They are insubstantial. When you die, all the…

— Frederick Lenz

“We enshrine things to memory very differently than we experience them in real time. The psychologist Daniel Kahneman has coined a couple of terms…

— Jennifer Senior

To remember oneself means the same thing as to be aware of oneself - I am. It is not a function, not thinking, not…

— P.D. Ouspensky

“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

Self is a construct, a feeling, an identity that is internal and can neither be given nor taken away by others. We develop and…

— Judith M Bardwick

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 ideas that we have about self are an aggregate within a state of mind, and they chain us to a state of mind.

— Frederick Lenz

Memory narrativises itself.

— Aleksandar Hemon

Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is…

— Thomas Fuller

I guess what I find so interesting about memory, and its role in a person's identity, is how the attempt to achieve accuracy requires…

— Heidi Julavits