Quotes About Self

I know when I was growing up, I was always lost and just thought I was alone and that I needed to find where I belonged.

We will live with racism for ever. But senses of self, senses of belonging, senses of us and of others? Those are up for grabs.

Your time here on this earth, it belongs to you.

Nothing is to be clung to as 'I,' 'me,' or 'mine.

The pursuit of knowledge, he maintained, was a worthy objective in its own right and needed no external validation.

everyone comes into the world with a right to his own person and using it at his own will," Jefferson said.72 "This is what is called personal liberty, and is given him by the author of nature, because it is necessary for his own sustenance.

The biggest lie," he said, "is, The Internet is about you.

Of all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.

Since our technology is really just an extension of ourselves, we don't have to have contempt for its manipulability in the way we might with actual people. It's all one big endless loop. We like the mirror and the mirror likes us. To friend a person is merely to include the person in our private hall of flattering mirrors.

He'd lost track of what he wanted, and since who a person was what a person wanted, you could say that he'd lost track of himself.

The ultimate goal of technology, the telos of techne, is to replace a natural world that's indifferent to our wishes — a world of hurricanes and hardships and breakable hearts, a world of resistance — with a world so responsive to our wishes as to be, effectively, a mere extension of the self.

The dream of radical transformation: of one day waking up and finding himself a wholly different (more confident, more serene) kind of person, of escaping that prison of the given, of feeling divinely capable.

Attempting to write an honest essay doesn't alter the multiplicity of my selves. What changes, if I take the time to stop and measure, is that my multi-selved identity acquires substance.

Patty's] Copernican wish to the be sun around which all things revolved

Il Paradiso e l'inferno ce li creiamo da soli.

who you are, but I'm not in love with you.

Aveva perso le tracce di ciò che voleva, e poiché una persona è ciò che vuole, si poteva dire che avesse perso le tracce di se stesso.

since a person couldn't exist in two places at once, the more he existed as the Internet's image of him, the less he felt like he existed as a flesh-and-blood person.

the more he existed as the Internet's image of him, the less he felt like he existed as a flesh-and-blood person.

Sick of envying, sick of herself. She didn't understand antiques or architecture, she couldn't draw like Sylvia, she didn't read like Ted, she had few interests and no expertise. A capacity for love was the only true thing she'd ever had.

His inner life now consisted of little but obsessing about his image on an Internet that felt like death to him; of

Esa no era la persona que él creía ser, o la que habría elegido ser si hubiera tenido la libertad de elegir, pero había algo reconfortante y liberador en ser una persona real y definida, y no una colección de personas potenciales y contradictorias.

He was so immersed and implicated in the Internet, so enmeshed in its totalitarianism, that his online existence was coming to seem realer than his physical self.

He wasn't constituted to hate himself subjectively, but he did hate the object he was in the world.