Identity Quote by James Allen

“When the mind becomes conscious of itself as thought it simultaneously becomes conscious of itself as action. Thought and action, truth and freedom (‘ye…

— R. G. Collingwood

Man knows himself only insofar as he knows the world, becoming aware of it if only within himself, and of himself self only within…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“It is not the consciousness of man that determines his existence—rather, it is his social existence that determines his consciousness.”

— Karl R. Popper

“The modern scientist attempts to step outside of himself in order to observe himself, an attempt that is always doomed to failure. You cannot…

— Joseph P. Kauffman

“Self is what makes mind think, but never needs the mind. Self is what makes bodies live, but needs no existence for itself. Self…

— Gian Kumar

“I believe that, through the act of living, the discovery of oneself is made concurrently with the discovery of the world around us, which…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

“Human consciousness created objective existence and meaning, and man found his indispensable place in the great process of being.”

— Anthony Stevens

“The nature of one's own consciousness is the same as the nature of God and Godhead and, therefore, to know God, one must seek…

— Tau Malachi

“In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive. A living man knows himself not otherwise than as…

— Leo Tolstoy

“A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances. Nature”

— James Allen

Everything depends therefore on encountering thought at its source. Such thought is the reality of man's being, which achieved consciousness and understanding of itself…

— Karl Jaspers

“When the self is not engaged in apprehending objects it becomes aware of itself.”

— W.T. Stace