Quotes About Identity

Ich bin nicht Stiller!

I called her a sentimentalist and artsy-craftsy. She called me Homo Faber.

Oh, this yearning to be white, this yearning to have straight hair, this lifelong striving to be different from the way one is created this great difficulty in accepting oneself, I knew it and saw only my own longing from outside, saw the absurdity of our yearning to be different from what we are...

It is known that 610,000 ethnic Germans were killed in Rumania, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.

If you try to bring 'teen drama ' you end up doing nothing but pouting.

I've got my dad's height and smoking habit. But I think I've got my mum's looks and sensibilities.

We don't know very well those we love But I understand them fairly well Being all these people myself I who am however but a baboon.

America shudders at anything alien, and when it wants to shut its mind against any man's ideas, it calls him a foreigner.

You are the only you God made... God made you and broke the mold.

Remember, you are special because I made you. And I don't make mistakes.

A man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is.

The people is dead! Good-day, Self!

If religion has set up the proposition that we are sinners altogether, I set over against it the other: we are perfect altogether! For we are, every moment, all that we can be; and we never need be more.

Mensch, es spukt in deinem Kopfe!

The true human being doesn't lie in the future, an object of longing, but rather it lies in the present, existing and actual. However and whoever I may be, joyful and sorrowful, a child or an old man, in confidence or doubt, asleep or awake, I am it. I am the true human being.

Man, you see, is not a person, but an ideal, a spook.

Das Göttliche ist Gottes Sache, das Menschliche Sache "des Menschen". Meine Sache ist weder das Göttliche noch das Menschliche, ist nicht das Wahre, Gute, Rechte, Freie usw., sondern allein das Meinige, und sie ist keine allgemeine, sondern ist - einzig, wie Ich einzig bin.

Who is this person that you call "All"?—It is "society"!—But is it corporeal, then?—We are its body!—You? Why, you are not a body yourselves;—you, sir, are corporeal to be sure, you too, and you, but you all together are only bodies, not a body. Accordingly the united society may indeed have bodies at its service, but no one body of its own. Like the "nation" of the politicians, it will turn out to be nothing but a "spirit," its body only semblance.

it is only through the 'flesh' that I can break the tyranny of mind; for it is only when a man hears his flesh along with the rest of him that he hears himself wholly

Now why, if one strives for freedom out of love for the I, why not choose the I itself as beginning, middle and end ? Am I not worth more than freedom? Am I not the one who makes myself free, am I not the first? Even unfree, even in a thousand fetters, still I am; and I do not, like freedom, only exist as a future thing, in hopes, but even as the most degraded slave I am also present.

So the people--humanity or the family--have up to now, as it seems, played history: no egoistic interest was supposed to arise in these societies, but only universal, national, or popular interests, class interests, family interests, and "universal human interests".

The person is repulsive to it because of being "egoistic," because of not being that abstraction, Man.

Because im dutch

A language is a dialect with an army and navy.