Quotes About Identity

It is the mind that makes the man, and our vigour is in our immortal soul.

I'm not the kind of person you think I am, I'm not the anti-Christ, or the iron man.

No man can prove upon awakening that he is the man who he thinks went to bed the night before, or that anything that he recollects is anything other than a convincing dream.

A man who says that men are machines may be a great scientist. A man who says he is a machine is 'depersonalized' in psychiatric jargon.

I am a man now. Pass your hand over my brow. You can feel the place where the brains grow.

I feel outside of the system where you're male or female. So I just retired from caring. I don't represent myself as a man or as a woman. I represent myself by not participating as either.

Some people may think I am still young and still a boy but now I feel like I am a man.

When a man becomes cultivated, he develops a new respect for who he is. This causes him to be ashamed of his past identification of himself and others according to things, i.e. property.

The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody.

The consciousness in each man is a sliding scale, which identifies him now with the First Cause, and now with the flesh of his body; life above life, in infinite degrees.

A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature.

The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.

Man is the dwarf of himself.

I am half a man, holy Jesus, what a drag.

The role James Baldwin played in my life is incommensurable as stated above. He helped, along with a few others, to shape the man that I am today. My debt to him is invaluable.

But no man's a hero to himself. I've lived with me a lifetime. I know everything worth knowing about myself--" ~Something Wicked This Way Comes

Well I'm not dumb, but I can't understand why she walked like a woman, but talked like a man.

To every man in the world there is one person of whom he knows little: whom he would never recognize if he met him walking down the street, whose motives are a mystery to him. That is himself.

That is one of the flagrant misconceptions about Catholicism in America that if a man is a Catholic he owes allegiance to what they say a foreign sovereign, or something like that.

Labels are for the things men make, not for men. The most primitive man is too complex to be labeled.

Every man is an original and solitary character. None can either understand or feel the book of his own life like himself.

One cannot distinguish between human and non-human acts. One cannot point, one cannot say this man here is a man and that man there is a devil.

You act at being a man, and before you know it, you are one.

Only white men have the luxury of ignoring race.