Quotes About Self

Simmy entertained slippery thoughts about identity and the meaning of any individual's span on earth. When it came right down to it, she supposed that all a person really amounted to was the sum of their memories.

But who has time to write memoirs? I'm still living my memoirs.

It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.

Who could better motivate Bill Russell than Bill Russell?

I am convinced none of us shows the world a true face. We keep that safely tucked away.

quería una persona, quería que esa persona me quisiera y no pensaba que uno tenía que buscar, incesantemente, en otros cuerpos lo que ya había encontrado en uno solo (...)

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable

But what then am I? A thing that thinks. What is that? A thing that doubts, understand, affirms, denies, wills, refuses, and that also imagines and senses.

I am not a collection of members which we call the human body: I am not a subtle air distributed through these members, I am not a wind, a fire, a vapour, a breath, nor anything at all which I can imagine or conceive; because I have assumed that all these were nothing. Without changing that supposition I find that I only leave myself certain of the fact that I am somewhat.

Je pense, donc je suis; English: I think, therefore I am)

To think? That's it. It is thought. This alone cannot be detached from me. I am, I exist; that is certain.

The will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.

But this could not be the case with-the idea of a nature more perfect than myself; for to receive it from nothing was a thing manifestly impossible; and, because it is not less repugnant that the more perfect should be an effect of, and dependence on the less perfect, than that something should proceed from nothing, it was equally impossible that I could hold it from myself:

I must finally conclude that this proposition, I am, I exist, is necessarily true whenever it is put forward by me or conceived in my mind.

I am, I exist.

Thus the perception of the infinite is somehow prior in me to the perception of the finite, that is, my perception of God is prior to my perception of myself. For how would I understand that I doubt and that I desire, that is, that I lack something and that I am not wholly perfect, unless there were some idea in me of a more perfect being, by comparison with which I might recognize my defects?

Je puis me persuader d'avoir été fait tel par la nature que je puisse aisément me tromper même dans les choses que je crois comprendre avec le plus d'évidence et de certitude.

I am thinking, therefore I exist.

But, because I had already very clearly recognized in myself that the intelligent nature is distinct from the corporeal

I think, therefore I am"), the idea that the mere act of thinking about one's existence proves there is someone there to do the thinking.

But after I had imployed some years in thus studying the Book of the World, and endeavouring to get experience, I took one day a resolution to study also within my self, and to employ all the forces of my minde in the choice of the way I was to follow: which (me thought) succeeded much better, then if I had never estranged my self from my Country, or from my Books.

And let him do his best at deception, he will never bring it about that I am nothing so long as I shall think that I am something.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "Pienso, luego existo" (Descartes)