We may take it that the world is undoubtedly itself [i.e., is indistinct from itself], but, in any attempt to see itself, as an object, it must, equally, undoubtedly act so as to make itself...

He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and...

that whether or not he crossed himself depended on the identity of the trial judge.

[…] freier Wille und Schicksal sind nichts als Illusion, falsche Gegensätze, Trostpflaster. Letzten Endes sind sie sogar ein und dasselbe: ein einziger Prozess. Man wählt, was man wählt, es könnte nie anders sein: Die Entscheidung...

What we invent, we become

No individual existence can be traced further than the moment of conception, which determined that what was to be born would be this person and no other. The person may change from baby to child,...

I really knew nothing about the dancing habits of the Scottish. But I wanted to help. “I could teach them Indian folk dances,” I offered, scrounging my mind for school dances in gaudy garments.”Well, I’m...

The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it’s a damn good start.

Roughly speaking: to say of two things that they are identical is nonsense, and to say of one thing that it is identical with itself is to say nothing.

If you ever find yourself on a path that just doesn’t feel safe anymore, you have every right to stop the car. Get out – change your shoes and start walking.

Petra turned to her. “Everybody lies about who they are. Name one person here who isn’t doing that and I will drop out right now!”Shanti felt that snake of truth coil around her legs, threatening...

If your parents died suddenly, Sandro understood, your home was wherever you were, and now you were from nowhere. Your parents were your provenance. Dead, you had no provenance.

Being gay is not just what I do, but who I am. It is part of how I choose to live my life even if I never chose.

We are more than the person who wakes each day. We are the dreams of the previous night and the nightmares of the week before.

No, my life is not this precipitous hourthrough which you see me passing at a run.

Frankly, I believe that identity is what’s inside us.

My identity as Jewish cannot be reduced to a religious affiliation. Professor Said quoted Gramsci, an author that I’m familiar with, that, and I quote, ‘to know thyself is to understand that we are a...

I feel with some passion that what we truly are is private, and almost infinitely complex, and ambiguous, and both external and internal, and double- or triple- or multiply natured, and largely mysterious even to...

That it should be the questions and shape of a life, its total complexity gathered, arranged, and considered, which matters in the end, not some stamp of salvation or damnation that disperses all the complexity...

It is not until you change your identity to match your life blueprint that you will understand why everything in the past never worked.

We are identified and known by the sort of fruit, the quantity of fruit, and the quality of fruit borne out in our daily conversation, conduct, and character. There is no greater criterion for Christians....

Or is anyone’s identity a matter of fragments held together by convenient or useful narrative, that in ordinary circumstances never reveals itself as a fiction? Or is it really a fiction?

Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it’s like they didn’t fade away at all.

Rosie had to keep her room neat enough so James would not freak out, but not so neat that they could figure it all out, break the code, of who you truly were, what you...

How anyone becomes herself/is a mystery.

I realise that a certain school of thought says that who we are is something we construct for ourselves. We build our self out of what we think we remember.

There’s a drive in a lost soul—in one that is searching for acceptance, companionship, belonging, whatever you want to call it. The slightest coincidence ignites a spark that one hopes will lead to something meaningful.

The more you make your thoughts and beliefs into your identity, the more cut off you are from the spiritual dimension within yourself.

This constant mental diatribe and the frustrations, worries, insecurities and muscular tension that ensues are the self.

Even now, she wished she could write a note, push it across the table, and go away to her room. But she was no longer a Second Assistant Librarian of the Great Library of the...

You empower ignorance if you as teacher hide yourself among the students because you know less and give less… Don’t hide your identity, make it a reality!

People with dissociative disorders are like actors trapped in a variety of roles. They have difficulty integrating their memories, their sense of identity and aspects of their consciousness into a continuous whole. They find many...

At every moment you choose yourself. But do you choose *your* self? Body and soul contain a thousand possibilities out of which you can build many I’s. But in one of them is there a...

real” Chicanas, to speak like Chicanos. There is no one Chicano language just as there is no one Chicano experience.

I knew that (job) had to be a humbling role for my dad, but he never allowed it to become humiliating work.

He had the vanity to believe men did not like him – while men simply did not know him.

I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line.

Ego, Identity and Self – the 3 concepts of one’s creation that defines them entirely. Have an Ego, for without one, there is nothing but self-doubt. Have an Identity, for without one, there is nothing...

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we were.

we all make vows, Jimmy. And there is something very beautiful and touching and noble about wanting good impulses to be permanent and true forever,” she said. “Most of us stand up and vow to...

Dreams are manifestations of identities.

And the air is new. And everything, instant by instant, is as it is, preparing to appear. […] This is the only way I can live now. To be reborn moment by moment. […] I...

Iranians defend and present their Islamic and Iranian identity to other people worldwide.

People change, though, especially after they are dead.

Sometimes the boxes we’re put in fit. Other times, we find ourselves shoved into places too confining for our growing sense of self.

We have a lot more students coming to St. Thomas who are interested and committed to their Catholic identity and are more vocal about it.

We are forever lured by the sirens of the dogmatic mind, with its haughty complacency, which determines that one´s relationship to others is only meaningful when one tries to convince them of one´s single truth....

Moje myślenie wiecznie niegotowe na to, co ma mysleć, moje opowiadanie wiecznie niegotowe na to, co ma opowiadać, nie jestem gotowy na tę opowieść. Ten ciągły lęk przed rozstrzygnięciem, przed działaniem, przed życiem sprawia, że...

Iraqi national unity and preserve its Arab and Islamic identity.

Your voice is your identity. If you don’t use it, your halfway to Asphodel already.