Identity Quote by Oliver Sacks

Not one example of significant self-generation or self-organization can be found in the entire realm of nature… Without causation, nothing happens and without organization…

— Hugh Ross

“If biologists have ignored self-organization, it is not because self-ordering is not pervasive and profound. It is because we biologists have yet to understand…

— Stuart Kauffman

“An organism exists in its environment in only one mode, that of an open system responding to those segments of its environment to which…

— Walker Percy

A self that is very robust, that has many, many levels of organization, from simple to complex, and that functions as a sort of…

— Antonio Damasio

“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

“The fundamental construct of self and other is becoming untenable.”

— James Hamblin

“The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being.”

— D.H. Lawrence

The self is a perpetually recreated neurobiological state.

— Antonio Damasio

“But the self is precisely the integrator; it is the synthetic unity, as Kant said. It is the artist of life. It is only…

— Paul Goodman

“It is not in Our [the Self's] control to acquire or to renounce. They are both [activities] of the non-Self and are subject to…

— Dada Bhagwan

“Consciousness of self was an inherent function of matter once it was organized as life, and if that function was enhanced it turned against…

— Thomas Mann

“The essential Not-self could be perceived very clearly in things and in living creatures on the hither side of good and evil. In human…

— Aldous Huxley