Action Quote by Nikola Tesla

The self is coming from a state of pure awareness from the state of being. All the rest that comes about in a outward…

— Aldous Huxley

A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true about himself and his environment.

— Maxwell Maltz

We see, then, that the disappearance of the conscious personality, the predominance of the unconscious personality, the turning by means of suggestion and contagion…

— Gustave Le Bon

The self thus becomes aware of itself, at least in its practical action, and discovers itself as a cause among other causes and as…

— Jean Piaget

In the traditional view, a person is free. He is autonomous in the sense that his behavior is uncaused. He can therefore be held…

— B. F. Skinner

A man's every action is inevitably conditioned by what surrounds him and by his own body.

— Leo Tolstoy

A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes-within the limits of…

— Anonymous

Man stands alone in the universe, a unique product of a long, unconscious, impersonal, material process with unique understanding and potentialities. These he owes…

— George Gaylord Simpson

[Having] appropriated to itself all conscious intelligence in the universe ...Man faces the existential crisis of being a solitary and mortal conscious ego thrown…

— Richard Tarnas

A being connected with other beings cannot perform his own activities without taking the activities of others into account. For they are the indispensable…

— John Dewey

Man, like the universe, is a machine. Nothing enters our minds or determines our actions which is not directly or indirectly a response to…

— Nikola Tesla

The man who can articulate the movements of his inner life need no longer be a victim of himself, but is able slowly and…

— Henri Nouwen