Identity Quote by Thomas Metzinger Download Open image “The self is not a thing, but a process.” — Thomas Metzinger ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Identity Process Self
The self... is not an organic thing that has a specific location, whose fundamental fate is to be born, to mature, to die; it… — Erving Goffman Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
This is not the case. There is nothing that is not the Self. The Self does not have to be realized. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
For a human being, to possess a consciously experienced first-person perspective means to have acquired a very specific functional profile and distinctive level of… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
At 19, I basically held the position that if you were intellectually honest and really wanted to get in touch with political reality then… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
I think that there is an ongoing conspiracy in the philosophical community, an organized form of self-deception, as in a cult, to simply all… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
You cannot be a rational subject without veto-control on the level of mental action. — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
Someone who cannot stop his outer flow of words will soon be unable to communicate with other human beings at all. — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
I believe that if we would carefully apply the distinction between transparency and opacity to the different layers of the human self-model, looking at… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
As far as inner action is concerned, we are only rarely truly self-determined persons, for the major part of our conscious mental activity rather… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
Subjectivity is an ability, the capacity to use a new inner mode of presenting the fact that you currently know something to yourself. — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
One of the interesting characteristics of the Ego Tunnel is that it creates (as Finnish philosopher Antti Revonsuo called it) a robust "out-of-the brain… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
As a first-order approximation, I would say that phenomenality is "availability for introspective attention": Consciousness is a property of all those mental contents to… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
I could never understand how someone would embark on their life without having first confronted and clarified the truly fundamental questions. — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
I don't doubt that straight white men have identity issues and identity complexes and struggle with defining themselves. — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
In the hearing world, I'm constantly having to lip-read and trying to understand what's going on. Sign language is so beautiful. It gives you… — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
I think the next 50 years are going to present the human race with challenges that so far exceed the limitations of geopolitical boundaries… — Zachary Quinto Copy Share Image
You have expressive nationalism, I mean very identity driven, which shaped each other a lot of that in the Middle East. — Subrahmanyam Jaishankar Copy Share Image
I think everybody, or the great majority of human beings, have this aspiration to become other: to live a different identity, at least for… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
The language we share is at the core of our identity as citizens, and our ticket to full participation in American political life. We… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
Tell me how much a nation knows about its own language, and I will tell you how much that nation knows about its own… — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“In the worldly life, due to maadakta (intoxication of the ego of ‘I am Chandubhai’), one has completely lost awareness of everything about one’s… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“At the moment, then, of Man’s victory over Nature, we find the whole human race subjected to some individual men, and those individuals subjected… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
She might be without country, without nation, but inside her there was still a being that could exist and be free, that could simply… — Sharon Maas Copy Share Image
