Choices Quote by Zygmunt Bauman

To a greater or lesser degree, the project of the self becomes translated into one of the possession of desired goods and the pursuit…

— Anthony Giddens

The material world has only been constructed at the price of taking the self, that is, mind, out of it, removing it; mind is…

— Erwin Schrodinger

The ideal self is the wish to be like God.

— Michael Barbarulo

Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

— Walter Lippmann

Materialism lives outside the lines of my reality

— The Game

Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose thatwax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

— Walter Lippmann

“We live with a value system that I call the Extrovert Ideal—the omnipresent belief that the ideal self is gregarious, alpha, and comfortable in…

— Susan Cain

Self-actualizing people are those who have come to a high level of maturation, health and self-fulfillment... the values that self-actualizers appreciate include truth, creativity,…

— Abraham Maslow

When we try in good faith to believe in materialism, in the exclusive reality of the physical, we are asking our selves to step…

— John Updike

Ideality is the avant-courier of the mind.

— Horace Mann

The Ideal Consumer is someone who is constantly dissatisfies, constanly needs more and more products in order to feel better.

— Jean Kilbourne

The ideal, after all, is true than the real: for the ideal is the eternal element in perishable things.

— Henri Frederic Amiel