Quotes About Identity

I am thinking, therefore I exist.

I think, therefore I am"), the idea that the mere act of thinking about one's existence proves there is someone there to do the thinking.

And let him do his best at deception, he will never bring it about that I am nothing so long as I shall think that I am something.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "Pienso, luego existo" (Descartes)

Ich denke also bin ich (cogit ergo sum)

Je pense, donc je suis.

Cogito, ergo sum

You only fight well for causes you yourself have shaped, with which you identify—and burn.

On ne se bat bien que pour les causes qu'on modèle soi-même et avec lesquelles on se brûle en s'identifiant.

The distance between Don Quixote and the petty bourgeois victim of advertising is not so great as romanticism would have us believe.

The most recent phase of the alternation between Occidentalism and primitivism has therefore concealed the essential thing, the universality of violence. A selective blindness in one of two forms has obscured the fact that all cultures, and all individuals without exception, participate in violence; that violence is what structures our collective sense of belonging and our personal identities.

The preference that cultures grant to themselves, in other words, must be perpetuated at any cost. This preference is inseparably bound up with the identity, the autonomy, the very existence of these cultures.

Ka?de indywiduum przejawia tendencj? do czucia si? "bardziej innym" od wszystkich bli?nich i równocze?nie ka?da kultura przejawia tendencj? do my?lenia o sobie nie tylko jak o ró?nej od innych, lecz ponadto jak o maksymalnie ró?nej od innych, bowiem ka?da kultura podtrzymuje owo uczucie "inno?ci" w?ród pozostaj?cych w jej kr?gu jednostek.

We are ready to deconstruct anything except the idea that we are self-directed and that the persecutors are always the others.

He is no longer the pretext for a story: the story itself renders him homage. The works of Fantomas can neither be destroyed nor accept modifications. ...Fantomas requires more of others than of himself ... He is never completely invisible. His likeness can be seen through his face. ... Fantomas's science is more precious than the word. It is not possible to guess it - and no one can doubt its power.

Are you busy proving your worth or living it? A critical distinction."

Authenticity inspires. Just be real

Be careful not to censor yourself to fit a certain situation or group of people. When we start to censor ourselves we can easily censor ourselves right out of our lives.

Loneliness doesn't come from missing someone it comes from being disconnected from yourself.

Make sure your beliefs match who you are: love.

I wonder if you know at all what is happening in my heart, what a word. I suppose you don't. You've so many females, wife, sister, daughters, cousins, dog, in your life that you've probably confused me with them all.

You cannot be forever watching for the point, or you lose the simplest thing: being a major character in your own life.

In der Tat ist Foucaults Werk ein verwirrendes Labyrinth, in welchem der Autor, der keiner sein will und in Wahrheit nie das ist, was er zunächst zu sein scheint, umherirrt und sich verliert.

Il n'est pas très courant de voir un peuple durement opprimé accourir, tout juste libéré, chez son oppresseur, pour demeurer sous son administration ; il faut croire que la France, en fait, n'avait pas laissé sur l'autre rive de la Méditerranée un trop mauvais souvenir pour que ses ex-assujettis n'aient rien eu de plus pressé, à peine sa tutelle écartée, que de se précipiter sur son sol. Ou bien venaient-ils en conquérants ?