Components Quote by Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Our sense of self is a kind of construct. It is in some ways like a novel, and it's like a fabric of fictions…

— Dan Chaon

“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

The self is a perpetually recreated neurobiological state.

— Antonio Damasio

The self has the characteristic that it is an object to itself, and that characteristic distinguishes it from other objects and from the body.

— Anonymous

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

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

The Self is not in the realm of thought. The Self is in the gap between our thoughts. The cosmic psyche whispers to us…

— Deepak Chopra

No self is of itself alone. It has a long chain of intellectual ancestors. The 'I' is chained to ancestry by many factors... This…

— Erwin Schrodinger

The boundary between ourselves and other people and between ourselves and Nature, is illusion. Oneness is reality.

— Charlene Spretnak

The self is not the individual body or mind, but rather that aspect deep inside each individual person that knows the truth.

— Vishnudevananda Saraswati

The Self is the one Reality that always exists, and it is by the light of the Self that all other things are seen.

— Ramana Maharshi

Free will and consciousness is an illusion, and the self is a complex of memes.

— Susan Blackmore