Quotes About Identity

Brain's got all kinds of gauges. You can know you're blind even when you're not; you can know you can see, even when you're blind. And yeah, you can know you don't exist even when you do. It's a long list, commissar. Cotard's, Anton's, Damascus disease. Just for starters.

Thanks to a vampire and a boatload of freaks and an invading alien horde, I'm Human again.

Half my age, and she's probably already forgotten the difference between the meat she was born with and the chrome that came after.

They're not post-Human. Not yet." "How can you tell?" It was only half a joke. "Because otherwise we wouldn't be able to talk to them at all.

Dan, you gotta let go of this whole self thing. Identity changes by the second, you turn into someone else every time a new thought rewires your brain. You're already a different person than you were ten minutes ago.

If there's one thing I'm the world's greatest expert on, it's how it feels to be me. And

Ludzie naprawdÄ™ nie walczÄ… o odcieÅ" skóry czy ideologiÄ™ – to tylko wygodne wskazówki do identyfikacji "swoich". Wyszystko zawsze sprowadza siÄ™ do wiÄ™zów krwi i ograniczonych zasobów.

He may have been wrong. I may have been. But that, that distance—that chronic sense of being an alien among your own kind—it's not entirely a bad thing.

Yet the questions persisted, in the minds of the laureates, in the angst of every horny fifteen-year-old on the planet. Am I nothing but sparking chemistry? Am I a magnet in the ether? I am more than my eyes, my ears, my tongue; I am the little thing behind those things, the thing looking out from inside. But who looks out from its eyes? What does it reduce to? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I?

Humans didn't really fight over skin tone or ideology; those were just handy cues for kin-selection purposes. Ultimately it always came down to bloodlines and limited resources.

Pico argued that, unlike all the rest of creation, mankind has been assigned no fixed role by God, but is free to create its own identity and its own future, even aspiring to divinity itself.

National culture and national self-expression tend to be self-serving and mythologising (all the more acutely so, perhaps, if foreigners proof even better at mythologising than the locals and drive the locals on to ever-greater feats of self-deception). National culture, by definition, is mythologising, self-serving and at the same time, self-mutilating, designed as it is to focus a group identity by creating shibboleths and stereotypes.

For who can doubt that Rome would rise again instantly if she began to know herself?

Kendimi bulduÄŸumu zannettiÄŸim zamanlar nefretten boÄŸuluyorum.

Dü?ün ki her an ben de?i?iyorum, her an sen de?i?iyorsun, buna ra?men birbirimizi nas?l tan?yabiliyoruz? Bu kaçan benliklerimizi birbirimizde aramak tecessüsü olmasayd? bir saniye konu?abilir miydik?

Yoksa, hakikaten bahtiyar insan?n bahtiyar görünmek için o kadar gürültü pat?rd?ya ne ihtiyac? var?

Kime yaranmak olursa olsun, güzel Türkçe dururken, sokak levhalar?na, tabelâlara Frans?zca ibareler yaz?lmas?na aleyhtar oldu?umu söyledim.

Beni susturan ?ey nefretimdi. En basit içtimaî dâvalar? anlamayacak kadar yabanc? tesirler alt?nda ?ahsiyetlerini kaybeden bu insanlarla münaka?aya mecbur olman?n küçüklü?ünden muzdariptim.

Onlar? ?imdiden gayet iyi tan?yorum. Üstümden ç?kar?p yata?a att???m robdö?ambr içinde, ebediyen ayn? insan bulunacak: Hasta.

I don't want to end up being a circus act, doing my most famous tricks when I'm 70.

Sometimes it's what you don't do that makes you who you are.

Straight edge means I'm drug free, alcohol free, and better than you.

Ironically, I've spent years writing sensitive articles for women. Still, one lady wrote: "I have always viewed you with suspicion, knowing that if you were pushed to the limit, if you were forced to make a decision, you weren't really one of us after all. Deep down inside, you are a guy.

I wanna know, can you show me I wanna know 'bout these Strangers Like Me Tell me more, please show me Something's familiar 'bout these Strangers Like Me