Identity Philosophy Quotes

#1. Every individual, however original he may be, is still a child of God, of his age, of his nation, of his family and friends. Only thus is he truly himself. If in all this relativity he tries to be the absolute, then he becomes ridiculous.

Soren Kierkegaard

#2. One of the greatest tragedies in life is to lose your own sense of self and accept the version of you that is expected by everyone else.

K.L. Toth

#3. Identity and resemblance would then be no more than inevitable illusions - in other words, concepts of reflection which would account for our inveterate habit of thinking difference on the basis of the categories of representation.

Gilles Deleuze

#4. Treat everyone you meet as if they were you.

Doug Dillon

#5. For years, she had been in mourning for the way she had let her life slip through her fingers. Given another chance, she'd told herself, she would take more care to experience it. But lately, she was finding that she had experienced it after all and just forgotten, and now it was returning to her.

Anne Tyler

#6. Your heart is a container - it must be filled

Anonymous

#7. Existence is Identity, Consciousness is Identification.

Ayn Rand

#8. If he had had no education, maybe Basho could have been a much greater poet.

Nanao Sakaki

#9. They have their big, ever-changing egos, but none has a self, a core, a sense of identity.

Erich Fromm

#10. Don't let your disease become your identity.

Debasish Mridha

#11. More often than not- Life moves really fast! It's only for you to pause and breathe! Sadly, none else can do that for you!

Jasleen Kaur Gumber

#12. What matters most is not 'what' you are, but 'who' you are.

DaShanne Stokes

#13. Decorating has always been my hobby.

Lee Radziwill

#14. Our problem isn't that we're individualists. It's that our individualism is static rather than dynamic. We value what we think rather than what we do. We forget that we haven't done, or been, what we thought; that the first function of life is action, just as the first property of things is motion.

Fernando Pessoa

#15. Don't dwell in comparisons; be your own kinda' beautiful

Soke Behzad Ahmadi

#16. And yet does the appetite for new days ever really cease?

John Updike

#17. It's Unfair to be fair,
For Life is unfair

Farley Maglaya

#18. Leave jesting whiles it pleaseth, lest it turne to earnest.

George Herbert

#19. I think I think, therefore I think I probably am.

David F. Porteous

#20. We all see the world through the prism of our identity.

Ethan Hawke

#21. If your thoughts are not right, your actions won't be right.

Bohdi Sanders

#22. I think those who have a terminal illness and are in great pain should have the right to choose to end their own life, and those that help them should be free from prosecution.

Stephen Hawking

#23. Find that pursuit that will energize you, consume you, become an obsession. Each day, you must rise with a restless enthusiasm. If you don't, you are working.

Adrian Tan

#24. You can either follow your dreams or adjust with your society's expectations ... Either way, consequences are uncertain ... the path to glory or the boulevard of mediocrity, both lead to the grave ... Choose what's worthwhile, for the end is the same.

K. Hari Kumar

#25. All of us need a vision for our lives, and even as we work to achieve that vision, we must surrender to the power that is greater than we know. It's one of the defining principles of my life that I love to share: God can dream a bigger dream for you than you could ever dream for yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

#26. The Ankh-Morpork Trespassers' Society was originally the Explorers' Society until Lord Vetinari forcibly insisted that most of the places 'discovered' by the society's members already had people in them, who were already trying to sell snakes to the newcomers.

Terry Pratchett

#27. This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving, self-sacrifice, and agape love.

Peter Kreeft

#28. Logic issues in tautologies, mathematics in identities, philosophy in definitions; all trivial, but all part of the vital work of clarifying and organising our thought.

Frank Plumpton Ramsey

#29. I've heard lots of people lie to themselves but they never fool anyone.

Steve Martin

#30. Roughly speaking: to say of two things that they are identical is nonsense, and to say of one thing that it is identical with itself is to say nothing.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#31. We must have sinned greatly, at some juncture long buried in our protozoic past, to deserve such a universe

John Updike

#32. It is within science itself, and not in some prior philosophy, that reality is to be identified and described.

Willard Van Orman Quine

#33. Who are you? What are you? Why are you?

Debasish Mridha