Quotes About Identity

The shadows around her loomed longer and darker. She didn't know what her light was.

Here I know nobody; nobody knew me.

There was no world in which she would be queen to another's king. Eanflæd would be peaceweaver. She was the light of the world.

I never knew my father," she said again, slowly. She could only tell the truth. "Of the rest, I may not speak.

It was only now that she understood, for the first time, that despite her title, her uniform, and the two stars on her shoulder, she was as helpless as any native herder or farmer or sailor.

Whoever you are, Peretur, I would have you.

When he is stripped of the Christian tunic and the classical toga, there is nothing left of the European but a pale-skinned barbarian.

Finding himself,' for modern man, means dissolving himself in any collective entity.

The idea of "the free development of personality" seems admirable as long as one does not meet an individual whose personality has developed freely.

Modern man denies himself every metaphysical dimension and considers himself a mere object of science. But he screams when they exterminate him as such.

Modern man no longer dares to preach that the individual is born as a blank slate. Too many mishaps have taught him that we are the oppressed heirs of our family, our race, our blood. Blood is not an innocent liquid, but the viscous paste of history.

The three hypostasis of egoism are: individualism, nationalism, collectivism. The democratic trinity.

Nobody finds himself by searching merely for himself. Personality is born out of conflict with a norm.

For the trunk of individuality to grow, one must prevent freedom from making the trunk spread out into branches.

Vulgarity consists in striving to be what we are not.

El Occidente habrá muerto, cuando deje de ser la presencia de Grecia en un alma cristiana.

The racist errs by believing that pure races exist, the anti-racist by believing that the ingredients of a beverage are of no importance.

Las matemáticas son la poesía del principio de identidad.

Al despojarse de la túnica cristiana y de la toga clásica, no queda del europeo sino un bárbaro pálido

Life" has so obviously become the highest goal of the modern world that whoever lives for something else — even if it's eating — arouses our sympathy.

Die Idee der "freien Entfaltung der Persönlichkeit" scheint ausgezeichnet, solange man nicht auf Individuen stößt, deren Persönlichkeit sich frei entfaltet hat.

He who accepts the rank which nature assigns him does not turn into the mere absence of what he is not. Even the most modest thing has, in its proper place, immeasurable worth.

Man has as much of a soul as he believes he has. When that belief dies, man becomes an object.

The West withers every non-Western soul that touches it.