Identity Quote by Sheryl Sandberg

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

— James Hamblin

“It is indeed strange that we find it so difficult to welcome...the blissful nature of the loss of the power of selfhood—a power it…

— Leo Bersani

“If this was the true self it was marvelous and what’s more it seemed never to change but always to pick up from the…

— Henry Miller

“The self may be extinguished, but there are many selves and the Will creates them.”

— S.R. Hardy

“It's improbable for me to become lost, because I am already self-realized. A blank scene is a portrait of a glass kingdom to me.…

— Lionel Suggs

“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

“But in exchange for what our imagination leads us to expect and we give ourselves so much futile trouble trying to find, life gives…

— Marcel Proust

“Your imagination must, to some extent, be found in a realm beyond reason because it begins with imagining a future reality: the self that…

— Richard Schoch

“...the self can be as desperately stranded in the transcendence of theory as in the immanence of consumption.”

— Walker Percy

“...there is no better time to examine and understand one’s selfhood than when it is dissected and hurtling through darkness.”

— Robert Jackson Bennett

“In order to have original, uncommon, and perhaps even immortal thoughts, it is enough to estrange oneself so fully from the world of things…

— Arthur Schopenhaur

“No one can understand himself, for to do that he would have to get outside himself; the subject of the knowing and willing activity…

— Otto Weininger