Freedom Quote by Harold Bloom

“I only know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, of thoughts and affections; and I'm sensible of a certain doubleness…

— Henry David Thoreau

“He often acted out of impulse just so that he could then devote his leisure hours to mulling why; he relished self-analysis, though he…

— Eleanor Catton

“All great work—artistic, poetic, intellectual or spiritual—is produced at those moments when its creators are lost completely in their actions, when they forget themselves…

— Walpola Rahula

“Not the free individual but the lost individual; not Independence but isolation; not self-discovery but self-obsession; not the conquer but to be conquered; these…

— Robert A. Nisbet

“And in taking on the subject of themselves-making themselves vulnerable to the unseen reader-they have exchanged powerlessness for for the power that comes with…

— Wally Lamb

“He completely lacked any ardent interest that might have occupied his mind. His interior life was impoverished, had undergone a deterioration so severe that…

— Thomas Mann

“Aesthetic criticism returns us to the autonomy of imaginative literature and the sovereignty of the solitary soul, the reader not as a person in…

— Harold Bloom

“You must live a life of self-consciousness always”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Hardly even does one think of oneself, but only how to escape from oneself.”

— Marcel Proust

“to become conscious of what one is doing to earn his feeling of heroism is the main self-analytic problem of life.”

— Ernest Becker

“I have cultivated several personalities within myself. I constantly cultivate personalities. Each of my dreams, immediately after I dream it, is incarnated into another…

— Fernando Pessoa

“The highest form of consciousness is self-consciousness”

— Thabiso Monkoe