Quotes of: Personal-identity Keyword

It’s a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectator’s experience should be identical to, or even have anything to do with, the artist’s

Dhalgren

To know Jesus Christ, you must first understand his supernatural identity. He is God.

Face to Face Meetings With Jesus Christ: The Language of Heaven

The moment was surreal. A sometimes-autistic young man with two identities lecturing a room full of zombies on feelings and realities.

Both of Me

The dictionary says my identity should be all about being separate or distinct, and yet it feels like it is so wrapped up in others.

The Adoration of Jenna Fox

[T]he category of 'consumer' is now a temporary behavior rather than a permanent identity.

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

It would be both an identical work of art only by virtue of its difference. The same but different, he suggested, like twins.

The Human Script

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.

Jesus-Shock

Our identities are tremendously warped and distorted by yesterday's trauma and tomorrow's expectations.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

All through life there were distinctions - toilets for men, toilets for women; clothes for men, clothes for women - then, at the end, the graves are identical.

Minaret

It’s a case of mistaken identity. It’s one big mistake. You weren’t even in the country when it happened.” Maja in the short story 'Metro' by Steen Langstrup

Metro

You will need to verify your identity with a sacrifice." "Didn't you ever hear of retina scans? Maybe fingerprints? Something less invasive?

A Surefire Way

I have a secret secret admirer. Not only is her identity a secret—but so is the fact that she admires me. 

This Book Title is Invisible

[Marriage] is the reunion of the separated duad. Originally you were one. You are now two in the world, but the recognition of the spiritual identity is what marriage is.

The Power of Myth

Leaving from your body might sometimes be an unpleasant experience for you, if that is what you have built your identity around

The Perfect World

Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.

When Nietzsche Wept

As economists like to say, the plural of "anecdote" is not "data.

You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity

Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.

Margaret Fuller

No death, no doom, no anguish can arouse the surpassing despair which flows from a loss of identity. -

The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath

We should not center our lives on receiving praise and admiration. If we are secure in our faith, our identity will be based on the love of God, not the opinion of others.

Patti J. Smith

You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.

A. R. Ammons

A socialist must be 'class-conscious', recognizing his identity as a member of the working class and understanding his interests as permanently against those of the master class.

Robert Barltrop