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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Pet
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have a habit of turning to scientists when we want factual answers and artists when we want entertainment, but where are the facts about the nature of the self? Neurologists peering at PET scans and fMRIs know they aren't seeing the soul in there.
- Constructing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Novelists are in the business of constructing consciousness out of words, and that's what we all do, cradle to grave. The self is a story we tell.
- Greatness
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- Nov 07, 2020
The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's just so fragile. The growing sense of 'Oh, God, what am I doing? Am I any good? Will I ever work again?' All those questions of self doubt, they do creep in.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I take risks, but I don't lose respect for my real self. Because what's going to happen afterwards? How are you going to get back? Is there going to be a train, or will it be after midnight and you can't go home again?
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
- Nov 07, 2020
We have to give feminism a shot. Out of sheer self preservation, we have to stand aside and let women run the show.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just have a harder time, I think, feeling close to people without self consciousness.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am very much aware of my own double self. The well-known one is very under control; everything is planned and very secure. The unknown one can be very unpleasant. I think this side is responsible for all the creative work - he is in touch with the child. He is not rational; he is impulsive and extremely emotional.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.
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