Quotes About Sameness

The future is always a wholeness, a sameness. We're all tall and happy there,' she said. 'This is why the future fails. It always fails. It can never be the cruel happy place we want to make it.

You don't mean to say that Hogan has turned into a woman? Why, yes, that's him all right, you can recognize him by the fact that he has two legs, two arms, and an indecipherable face. Man, woman, what difference does it make? Are they not all exactly the same, these little black insects with their rhythmic movements, the same eyes, the same thoughts?

We're all the same inside.

The rule of identity is the rule of amnesia.

People are like that .... They need to make their own worst experiences universal. It gives them a kind of support.' And who can blame them? It is just infuriating to argue with someone like that; because of an experience that has denied them their humanity, they go around denying another kind of humanity in others, which is the truth of human variety -- it stands alongside our sameness.

To me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.

My fight is not for racial sameness but for racial equality and against racial prejudice and discrimination.

The opposite of heterosexual desire is the eroticising of sameness, a sameness of power, equality and mutuality. It is homosexual desire.

Exhaustion is the shortest way to equality and fraternity.

Today, we talk a lot about equality, but I think what most people mean by it is sameness - that everybody is the same - and they are afraid if they are not the same, they are not equal.

The fundamental Law of The Universe states that all human beings are fundamentally the same and therefore have an equal right to live in equality.

The sense of identity provides the ability to experience one's self as something that has continuity and sameness, and to act accordingly.

It is not that the noble nature loves monotony, any more than it loves darkness or pain. But it can bear with it, and receive a high pleasure in the endurance or patience, a pleasure necessary to the well-being of this world; while those who will not submit to the temporary sameness, but rush from one change to another, gradually dull the edge of change itself, and bring a shadow and weariness over the whole world from which there is no more escape.

My greatest fear: repetition.

One of my greatest fears is not being able to change, to be caught in a never-ending cycle of sameness. Growth is so important.

We are all alike, on the inside.

Our lives are repetitious shams-every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things-he's fighting against boredom.

But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.

the morrow would not be different from all the days that had gone before;

The (ultimate) formula: 'the absolute is the subject' does not mean that there is only a subject. The 'free' is freedom of the free and the related. The absolute is the 'sameness' of the absolute and the relative. The true subject is the subjectivity of the subject and the object. -From Philosophy and Non-Philosophy Since Hegel

My greatest fear: repetition.

she and they were all the same under the skin, weren't they?

In my life, I had known suffering, oppression, anxiety; I had never known boredom. I could see no objection to the endless, imbecile repetition of sameness.

There's nothing fucking worse than knowing that you're just like everybody else.