“Be your own master, and look at things as a man, as a human being, as a citizen, as a mortal creature.”
Others on Identity
Neil Gaiman
4 quotes“People take on the shapes of the songs and the stories that surround them, especially if they don't have their own song.”
Maggie Stiefvater
4 quotes“It is not the outside of people that bothers me, but the inside.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
4 quotes“You are -- your life, and nothing else.”
Philip K. Dick
3 quotes“I'm not much but I'm all I have.”
Jorge Luis Borges
3 quotes“Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.”
Eric Hoffer
3 quotes“Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.”
James Baldwin
3 quotes“The power to define the other seals one's definition of oneself.”
Margaret Atwood
3 quotes“You can think clearly only with your clothes on.”
José Ortega y Gasset
3 quotes“Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are.”
Eckhart Tolle
3 quotes“Ego is the complete identification with form. Physical forms, thought forms, emotional forms.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne
3 quotes“I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!”
Philip Pullman
3 quotes“Blake said Milton was a true poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it. I am of the Devil's party and know it.”