Mind Quote by Theodore Dreiser

“Our ideas of self are fed to us by corporate game artists who wear us down with their generic mantras of compliance until we…

— Jeff Brown

Yes, we worship the idea of the "self-made man" - otherwise we'd go on strike against Bill Gates having all that money! We worship…

— James Hillman

Where do we end, and what is the self? You cut off your arm, you're still yourself. You cut off two of your arms,…

— Mike Cahill

The idea of self is dependent upon attraction, aversion and memory. Memory is simply a serial account of attractions and aversions that don't exist…

— Frederick Lenz

From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think there is only one practical consequence: we have to create ourselves…

— Michel Foucault

“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

I have always been interested in the idea of self-reinvention.

— Candice Millard

The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of 'self;'…

— Buddha

The sense of self is one of the obscurations that prevents us from seeing clearly, the idea that there is a self or that…

— Frederick Lenz

It's difficult to believe in yourself because the idea of self is an artificial construction. You are, in fact, part of the glorious oneness…

— Russell Brand

But there was something I liked about the idea of those seeds buried so deep having at least a chance to emerge

— Sarah Dessen

I've always liked the idea of taking old dramatic ideas and devices and making them feel relevant or contemporary or whatever.

— Edward Norton

I liked the idea of using this mega-star [Beyoncé ] to talk about all those things on the tiny scale of my life.

— Morgan Parker

“Being independent,making my one money… I liked the idea. -The killer(comics).”

— Matz

I've always liked the idea of being different.

— MO