Quotes About Identity

Strive to be authentic all the time. That's sort of my philosophy on life, which applies to acting.

My philosophy was if they weren't calling you names, you weren't doing anything.

Who am I, why am I here? Forget the question, someone give me another beer.

Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy.

Don't judge me, you could be me in another life.

Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.

Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.

This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving, self-sacrifice, and agape love.

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

I don't master my craft or my style enough to have any philosophy or dogma to which I feel I belong.

The spectacle is at the same time the mirage of self in the mirror of things.

Let whoever can do so deceive me, he will never bring it about that I am nothing, so long as I continue to think I am something.

I think I am, therefore, I am... I think.

Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.

The name Bowie just appealed to me when I was younger. I was into a kind of heavy philosophy thing when I was 16 years old, and I wanted a truism about cutting through the lies and all that.

According to this philosophy, each man consists of three parts - the body, the internal organ or the mind, and behind that, what is called the Atman, the Self.

In philosophy an individual is becoming himself.

Materialism is the philosophy of the subject who forgets to take account of himself.

Tell me what a person finds sexually attractive and I will tell you their entire philosophy of life. Show me the person they sleep with and I will tell you their valuation of themselves.

I am the East. I have philosophies, I have religions, who would exchange them for airplanes?

A man is a god in ruins.

If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.

One of my major preoccupations is the approximation between what I say and what I do, between what I seem to be and what I am actually becoming.