134 Quotes About The-self

After all, how could I be a person if Ultimate Reality were impersonal?

There are three basic problems: how a mind can know the world of nature, how it is possible for one mind to know another, and how it is possible to know the contents of our own minds without resort to observation or evidence. It is a mistake, I shall urge, to suppose that these questions can be collapsed into two, or taken into isolation.

What does introspection mean? It means you're looking in the wrong direction.

Why is one person happy and another unhappy? Because the first is concerned with the world and the other only with themselves.

Being yourself-that means being lots of different people.

Thus he has two standpoints from which he can consider himself...: first, as belonging to the world of sense, under the laws of nature (heteronomy), and, second, as belonging to the intelligible world under laws which, independent of nature, are not empirical but founded only on reason.

The real you is beyond all imagination.

Every face is born with a thousand masks to go with it.

The State in particular is turned into a quasi-animate personality from whom everything is expected. In reality it is only a camouflage for those individuals who know how to manipulate it.