Identity Quote by Wilson Follett

“The illusory self, which exists conventionally and dependently, on the basis of its component parts, simply ceases to exist when those parts are rent…

— Karma Lekshe Tsomo

“Perception is reality, and self-image is self-perception.”

— Michelle Tillis Lederman

A poor self-image is the magnifying glass that can transform a trivial mistake or an imperfection into an overwhelming symbol of personal defeat.

— David D. Burns

“Sometimes I think the urge to believe in our own worldview is our most powerful intellectual imperative, the mind’s equivalent of feeding, fighting, and…

— Barry Eisler

“Selfhood is a heavy, hardly translucent medium, which cuts off most of the light of reality and distorts what little it permits to pass.'…

— Nicholas Murray

When I make a representation of something, this, too, is an analogy to what exists; I make an effort to get a grip on…

— Gerhard Richter

The importance and unimportance of the self cannot be exaggerated.

— Reginald Horace Blyth

Some popular quotations smell of airless closets. They exhale the stale imagination of the intellectual lower middle class. "Suspension of disbelief" has become one…

— Rudolf Arnheim

Images detached from every aspect of life merge into a common stream, and the former unity of life is lost forever. Apprehended in a…

— Guy Debord

...(I)ndividual selfhood is expressed in the self's capacity for self-transcendence and not in its rational capacity for conceptual and analytic procedures.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

The virtual suppression of ethical discussion after 1845 produces the semblance of purely descriptive analysis, dressed in the mantle of positivist objectivity, analysis which…

— John Carroll

Self realization is second to enlightment..

— Melchor Lim