Quotes About Identity

Young men list music as their focus and means of identity -- before sport, before TV, before cinema -- while women cite fashion as most important, with music an ambivalent second.

'Ludacris' is something that I made up. It just kind of describes me. Sometimes I have like a split personality. Sometimes I'm cool, calm, and collected, and other times I'm beyond crazy.

we live in a society of larvae--immature human beings, adolescents disguised as adults.

E quale è di pazzia segno più espresso che, per altri voler, perder se stesso?

Man is what he eats.

M]an [has] the power of abstraction from himself[.]

Whatever kind of object … we are at any time conscious of, we are always at the same time conscious of our own nature[.]

Existence is one with self-consciousness; existence with self-consciousness is existence simply. If I do not know that I exist, it is all one whether I exist or not.

We are what we eat.

T]he object to which a subject essentially, necessarily relates, is nothing else than this subject's own … objective nature.

Only that which is apart from my own being is capable of being doubted by me. How then can I doubt of God, who is my being? To doubt of God is to doubt of myself.

If all men were absolutely alike, … a single man would have achieved the end of the species.

Consciousness in the strictest sense is present … in a being whom his species, his essential nature, is an object of thought.

Consciousness in the strictest sense is present only in a being to whom his species, his essential nature, is an object of thought.

Man … projects his being into objectivity. … [T]hen … makes himself an object to this projected image of himself[.]

Pantheism identifies man with Nature. whether its visible appearance, or its abstract essence. Personalism isolates, separates him from Nature; converts him from a part into the whole, into an absolute essence by himself.

God is the mirror of man.

Some women think they need to be overpowering in order to be powerful. This is so far from the truth. What is so great about being a women is how powerful we are quite naturally.

Wenn ich mich im Zusammenhang des Universums betrachte, was bin ich?

Prince, what you are you are by accident of birth; what I am I am through myself. There have been and still will be thousands of princes; there is only one Beethoven.

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.

the individual is today no longer primarily a citizen, but a party member.

race and species are only general concepts, except in so far as they exist in the individual being'.

Ludwig Wittgenstein