Quote by George Berkeley

“The way you see and know yourself is also referred to as self-perception.”

— Benjamin Smith

“The fact that both ego and self say "I" is a source of confusion and misidentification. The well-informed ego says truly, "I am what…

— Stephen LaBerge

“When I learn the meaning of a word, I know the word; but when I say to myself, 'I know the word,' there comes…

— George MacDonald

“Just as it is known That an image of one's face is seen Depending on a mirror But does not really exist as a…

— Nagarjuna

“Your self is your pure consciousness, which flows as it likes. Your personal self is the way you perceive yourself and the patterns of…

— The Unthered Soul

“What you take to be a “you” totally separate from the rest of life is really just awareness contracting or focusing on (i.e., identifying…

— Scott Kiloby

“To be myself (I note) I need the illumination of other people’s eyes, and therefore cannot be entirely sure what is my self.”

— Virginia Woolf

“It often happens that I don't know myself, which is typical in those who know themselves. I look at myself in the various disguises…

— Fernando Pessoa

The sense of self is one of the obscurations that prevents us from seeing clearly, the idea that there is a self or that…

— Frederick Lenz

“To know yourself you must know the transience of your self.”

— Ilyas Kassam

We suffer from a hallucination, from a false and distorted sensation of our own existence as living organisms. Most of us have the sensation…

— Alan Watts

“The “I” is the knowingness within you that realizes you are the creator.”

— Lee Vickers