Categories Quote by Judith Butler

It belongs to every large nature, when it is not under the immediate power of some strong unquestioning emotion, to suspect itself, and doubt…

— George Eliot

Existence is self-enjoyment, by means of some object distinct from ourselves.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

“They do not exist in their own right, but only have an existence dependent upon many factors, including a consciousness that conceptualizes them. Once…

— Dalai Lama XIV

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

“This is the mark of great ideas: they unify people and they also act to unify the disparate parts of the human being; they…

— Jacob Needleman

As the ego cogito, subjectivity is the consciousness that represents something, relates this representation back to itself, and so gathers with itself.

— Martin Heidegger

The individual feels the futility of human desires and aims and the sublimity and marvelous order which reveal themselves both in nature and in…

— Albert Einstein

Each of us does, in effect, strike a series of deals or compromises between the wants and longings of the inner self, and an…

— Maggie Scarf

Every society by its own practice of living and by the mode of relatedness, of feelings, and perceiving, develops a system of categories which…

— Erich Fromm

“I have come to recognize that the reason I devote myself to research, and to the building of theory, is to satisfy a need…

— Carl R. Rogers

“Objectivity, in other words, is the absence of the self. Our desire to be right, as ego-driven as it often seems, is essentially a…

— Kathryn Schulz

Meanings, moods, the whole scale of our inner experience, finds in nature the 'correspondences' through which we may know our boundless selves.

— Kathleen Raine