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Quotes About Self

Perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in himself.
~ Plato
Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
~ Gordon Allport
Neurophysiologists will not likely find what they are looking for, for that which they are looking for is that which is looking.
~ Keith Floyd
The doubter is a true man of science: he doubts only himself and his interpretations, but he believes in science.
~ Claude Bernard
We men who serve science serve only a reflection in a mirror.
~ Richard E. Byrd
The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.
~ Anne Carson
I am the thought you are now thinking.
~ Douglas Hofstadter
Do it for yourself. The universe will be around to collect its cut later.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Science is the special province of the ego. And magic and art are the special province of something else. I could name it, but I won't. It prefers to be unnamed
~ Terence McKenna
The self is the resultant of the interest of the genes.
~ Eric Baum
None but a woman can teach the science of herself.
~ Jane Austen
When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves. Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.
~ John Charles Polanyi
And Elvex said, "I was the man." - In "Robot dreams" (Short story)
~ Isaac Asimov, Robot Dreams
In every walk of life, you do have the freedom to choose, but that freedom is based on the perception of the world and yourself which you have gained until that moment of life.
~ Abhijit Naskar, What is Mind?
You are your brain and your brain is you.
~ Abhijit Naskar, What is Mind?
The mind is matter in and of itself, but I don't mind, and it doesn't matter.
~ Zenfex
?The universe perceives itself through us, or to be more specific, through our neurons.
~ Abhijit Naskar, What is Mind?
Do we exist because others perceive our existence, or is, indeed, our own affirmation enough?
~ Neal Shusterman, UnSouled
What was I before the war? It's hard to remember that far back. But I think maybe I was human.
~ A.J. Vega, Majesty's Offspring
I am not capable of love. - Felix
~ Donna Galanti, The Dark Inside
I look myself in the mirror and see what I am inside. In a glimpse, I find the perfection in the imperfect evidence of the former existence."Katia M. S.
~ Katia M. S.
Learn to discover your divine potential.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
The universe is perfect. All fault lies within the self.
~ Whitney Hale
I'm just tryin to be somebody I can talk to in the morning with a smile.
~ Aesop Rock