Quotes About Identity

A man must consider what rich realms he abdicates when he becomes a conformist

Love is the bright foreigner, the foreign self.

Men are what their mothers made them.

That popular fable of the sot who was picked up dead drunk in the street, carried to the duke's house, washed and dressed and laid in the duke's bed, and, on his waking, treated with all obsequious ceremony like the duke, and assured that he had been insane, owes its popularity to the fact that it symbolizes so well the state of man, who is in the world a sort of sot, but now and then wakes up, exercises his reason and finds himself a true prince.

We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents.

The god of the cannibals will be a cannibal, of the crusaders a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.

The man is only a half himself, the other half is his expression

we are what we know.

Ser você mesmo em um mundo que está constantemente tentando fazer de você outra coisa é a maior realização.

For every stoic was a stoic; but in Christendom where is the Christian?

The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it scatters your force. It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character. If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible-society, vote with a great party either for the government or against it, spread your table like base housekeepers, — under all these screens I have difficulty to detect the precise man you are.

But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's.

The soul raised over passion beholds identity and eternal causation, perceives the self-existence of Truth and Right, and calms itself with knowing that all things go well.

I must be myself. I cannot break myself any longer for you, or you. If you can love me for what I am, we shall be the happier. If you cannot, I will still seek to deserve that you should.

La naturaleza nos dotará del uniforme de prisión del partido al que nos adherimos.

It has been said, that "common souls pay with what they do; nobler souls with that which they are.

nature is not slow to equip us in the prison-uniform of the party to which we adhere. We come to wear one cut of face and figure, and acquire by degrees the gentlest asinine expression.

Cada hombre auténtico es una causa, un país, y una era.

that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do. Adam called his house, heaven and earth; Caesar called his house, Rome; you perhaps call yours, a cobler's trade; a hundred acres of ploughed land; or a scholar's garret. Yet line for line and point for point, your dominion is as great as theirs, though without fine names.

Y se expresaron con sus propias palabras, no con las palabras de los demás hombres

when we look in their faces we are disconcerted. Infancy conforms to nobody;

It's very different because the Indians live as if they are their souls and Americans live as if they are their egos.

Spiritual practices help us move from identifying with the ego to identifying with the soul. Old age does that for you too. It spiritualizes people naturally.

If you want to be surrounded by Souls, become identified with your Soul. It takes one to know one!