Archives Quote by Jonathon Keats

“How ludicrous were all attempts at defining the self”

— Krys Lee

“The illusory self, which exists conventionally and dependently, on the basis of its component parts, simply ceases to exist when those parts are rent…

— Karma Lekshe Tsomo

No one can self-actualize without self-actualizing those around them.

— Mark Victor Hansen

Self-projection is, more often than not, the move of the minor craftsman, of the tactics of the hour whose inherent weakness is, precisely, that…

— George Steiner

“Although selfhood depends causally upon the existence of the brain, it amounts to something far more than the brain. This something is vague and…

— Neel Burton

Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don't wish to have as their reality.

— Wayne Dyer

“Our current societal construct demonstrates we are uncaring and largely self-centered beings driven only by our own needs”

— Bryant McGill

“However, over the last few decades the life sciences have reached the conclusion that this liberal story is pure mythology. The single authentic self…

— Yuval Noah Harari

The good oxymoron, to define it by a self-illustration, must be a planned inadvertency.

— Wilson Follett

We have the kind of self-made-man myth, which says that super-successful people did it themselves.

— Malcolm Gladwell

“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

“I saw clearly that the idea of the self—of distinction, of me, of an inner and outer—is just an illusion,” he said, “something created…

— Emily Esfahani Smith