Quotes About Identity

If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.

Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies.

All Philosophy is Biography

Who you are isn't tied solely to what you say, even though it may feel that way to you now.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Language is our body and our breath, our world and our thought, our perception and even out unconscious.

I remain instinctively hostile to communitarian philosophy and communitarian politics.

Everyone is from somewhere, even if you've never been there.

What does it matter where my body happens to be?' he said. 'My mind goes on working all the same.

Fight Club is a thrill ride masquerading as philosophy - the kind of ride where some people puke and others can't wait to get on again.

Selfness is an essential fact of life. The thought of nonselfness, precise sameness is terrifying.

Is this really Butte, Montana, or just existential blues?

Me, what's that after all? An arbitrary limitation of being bounded by the people before and after and on either side. Where they leave off I begin, and vice versa.

Once someone asked me, "What do you want to be your epitaph?" So I said, "Paulo Coelho died when he was alive.

Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons.

I'm a slumdog philosopher.

Never forget who you are, little star.

Without ego I don't know how identity works, I don't know... I need to sit down and re-read some philosophy or something.

It's easy to confuse a woman for a philosophy

I still feel-kind of temporary about myself.

I begin to perceive that I am a woman. What that is, heaven knows... the philosophy is yet to be written, there is a world to be explored.

Once I know who I'm not, then I'll know who I am.

Who we are now is all that really matters.

Some even "peek through" their computer screens to see themselves on FB as others see them, in order to be sure of who they really are. In effect, they have become self-voyeurs!