Quotes of: Personal-identity Keyword

But epistemology is always and inevitably personal. The point of the probe is always in the heart of the explorer: What is my answer to the question of the nature of knowing?

Gregory Bateson

Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In fact, effective solidarity with the poor, both individual persons and entire nations, is indispensable for the construction of peace.

Claudio Hummes

When you have a person in power who punishes people for speaking their mind, it's truly dangerous.

Tim Robbins

However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propeller to a bird.

Norman MacCaig

I think of religion as something that stains the person. It's a mindset you can never get free from, it's always in the back of your head.

Angel Haze

I'm not a religious person, and I'm not too interested in being a part of a religion, but I do like having some sort of communal gathering, and having some sense of peoples.

Ian MacKaye

For me, I'm not a jealous person. That's just not my thing. You have to have trust in your relationship.

Fergie

My greatest environments in which I can grow, or grow up, is in personal romantic relationships with a man.

Alanis Morissette

I personally don't like to go see romantic comedies. But people do want to see them, and they seem to want to see me in them.

Matthew McConaughey

Ask an older person you respect to tell you his or her greatest regret.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

Samuel Butler

There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.

Elizabeth Moon

I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

H. L. Mencken

I think I'm skilful enough, but I don't consider myself a naturally talented, gifted sports person.

Tony McCoy

He's an innocent in a lot of ways. He's a very simple person who really doesn't have the resources or the strength, ultimately, to handle the situation.

Jared Leto

I'm not normally a jewelry person. I'm supposed to be a working class champion and all, and I don't like to rub my success in people's faces.

Bubba Sparxxx

Personally, I don't like the term 'success.' It's too arbitrary and too relative a thing. It's usually someone else's definition, not yours.

Ichiro Suzuki

When I did have a little bit of commercial success, it really didn't suit my temperament at all. I'm a terrible public person.

Juliana Hatfield

I always thought success was from inside, so it was how diversified you were as a person and how cultivated or how much you cultivated yourself.

Jason Scott Lee