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“If we examine a work of ordinary art, by means of a powerful microscope, all traces of resemblance to nature will disappear - but the closest scrutiny of the photogenic drawing discloses only a more absolute truth, a more perfect identity of aspect with the thing represented.”

Ifs Mean Art Perfect Powerful Identity Photography Ordinary Aspect Absolutes Disappear Drawing Closest Scrutiny Resemblance Absolute Truth Microscopes Photogenic

Author:Edgar Allan Poe

“Subjects who reciprocally recognize each other as such, must consider each other as identical, insofar as they both take up the position of subject; they must at all times subsume themselves and the other under the same category. At the same time, the relation of reciprocity of recognition demands the non-identity of one and the other, both must also maintain their absolute difference, for to be a subject implies the claim of individuation.”

Differences Subjects Identity Position Demand Claims Relation Absolutes All Time Recognition Categories Identical Reciprocity Individuation

Author:Jurgen Habermas

“The concept of absolute, hence (or whence) springs, in the moral field, the moral laws or norms, represent, in the field of knowledge, the principle of identity, which is the fundamental law of the thought; norms of logic springs from it, that govern the thought (or mind) in the field of science." ("Le concept de l'absolu, d'où découlent, dans le domaine moral, les lois ou normes morales, constitue, le principe d'identité, qui est la loi fondamentale de la pensée; il en découle les normes logiques qui régissent la pensée dans le domaine de la science.")”

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Author:African Spir

“I dont know if there is a personal identity. We all imagine that we are absolute individuals. But when we begin to look for where this individuality resides, its very difficult to find.”

Ifs Knows Looks Individual Difficult Imagine Identity Absolutes Individuality Imagine That Personal Identity

Author:John Banville

“You have an absolute freedom in Mexican writing today in which you dont necessarily have to deal with the Mexican identity. You know why? Because we have an identity... We know who we are. We know what it means to be a Mexican.”

Knows Writing Mean Today Deals Identity Absolutes Who We Are Mexican Absolute Freedom

Author:Carlos Fuentes

“For us, mind has nature for its premise, being nature's truth and for that reason its absolute prius. In this truth nature has vanished, and mind has resulted as the idea arrived at being-for-itself, the object of which, as well as the subject, is the concept. This identity is absolute negativity, for whereas in nature the concept has its perfect external objectivity, this its alienation has been superseded, and in this alienation the concept has become identical with itself. But it is this identity therefore, only in being a return out of nature.”

Mind Wells Has Beens Ideas Reason Perfect Subjects Identity Objects Return Concepts Absolutes Negativity Alienation Premises Identical Objectivity Prius

Author:Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“The idea that somehow "no self, no problem"- I don't exist because I don't have a self- would be a mistaken understanding. However, the selflessness teaching is not that hard to understand. What it means is a type of self that people feel they have, like a fixed, unchanging identity. Either they know they have it, or for some, they feel they need to seek it, and possibly have an experience where they feel like they found something. That type of fixed, unchanging, essential self, or absolute self doesn't exist. That's what "no self" means.”

People Knows Needs Feels Mean Ideas Self Hard Problem Would Be Found Understanding Teaching Identity Type Essentials Absolutes Fixed Mistaken Selflessness No Problem Unchanging

Author:Robert Thurman

“That whole Deep End experience of finding yourself with the dead body: you know you didn't kill it, but you know if you're found with it, you're gonna be done for it, so you have to get rid of it. And that's a really important nub of Young Adam Joe knows for absolute certain that if someone comes around the corner, that's it. Nobody's ever going to believe what happened. So that has nothing to do with identity or sexuality, but that is a link. I'm just fascinated by it.”

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Author:Tilda Swinton

“Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.”

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Book:Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-president

Source: Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-president

“Absolute nakedness was intrusive, confusing to the senses. Paradoxically, it both revealed and diminished identity.”

Identity Absolutes Senses Confusing

Book:Trilogy of Death: Three Complete Novels

Source: Trilogy of Death: Three Complete Novels