“The chief burden of the frustrated is the consciousness of a blemished, ineffectual self, and their chief desire is to slough off the unwanted self and begin a new life. They try to realize this desire either by finding a new identity or by blurring and camouflaging their individual distinctness; and both these ends are reached by imitation.” TryingEndsSelfDesireIndividualRealizingConsciousnessIdentityFindingsBurdenChiefsFrustratedImitationNew LifeUnwantedSlough Book:THE TRUE BELIEVER Source: THE TRUE BELIEVER
“To say that I have found the answer to all riddles of the soul would be inaccurate and presumptuous. But in the knowledge I have developed there must lie the answers to that riddle, to that enigma, to that problem - the human soul - for under my hands and others, was seen the best in man rehabilitated. I discovered that a human being is not his body and demonstrated that through Scientology an individual can attain certainty of his identity apart from that of the body. We cannot deal in the realm of the human soul and ignore the fact.” MenHumansSoulFactsProblemBodyHandsWould BeLyingFoundIndividualHuman BeingsAnswersDealsIdentityCertaintyRealmsHuman SoulRiddleEnigmaScientologyPresumptuous Author:L. Ron Hubbard
“Education brings sustainability to all the development goals, and literacy is the foundation of all learning. It provides individuals with the skills to understand the world and shape it, to participate in democratic processes and have a voice, and also to strengthen their cultural identity.” WorldIndividualProcessGoalVoiceIdentityDevelopmentShapesSkillsFoundationDemocraticSustainabilityLiteracyDemocratic ProcessCultural Identity Author:Irina Bokova
“The member of a primitive clan might express his identity in the formula "I am we"; he cannot yet conceive of himself as an "individual," existing apart from his group.” MightIndividualResponsibilityGroupsIdentityMembersIndependenceFormulasIndividualismPrimitiveSovereigntyIndividual RightsClans Book:Sane Society Ils 252 Source: Sane Society Ils 252
“Any loss of identity prompts people to seek reassurance and rediscovery of themselves by testing, and even by violence. Today, the electric revolution, the wired planet, and the information environment involve everybody in everybody to the point of individual extinction.” PeopleTodayIndividualLossEnvironmentViolenceInformationIdentityPlanetsRevolutionElectricTestingExtinctionPromptsReassuranceRediscoveryLoss Of Identity Author:Marshall McLuhan
“One's worth and self-regard ought to come from individual competitive performance, not from group identity. Pride based on clan or tribal connections is atavistic. It appeals to people who fear they cannot succeed as individuals, and by diverting their energies it all but ensures they will not succeed as individuals.” PeopleSelfIndividualEnergyGroupsIdentityPrideOughtSucceedConnectionsPerformancesRegardAppealsClansGroup Identity Book:In Defense of Elitism Source: In Defense of Elitism
“Mass Man, the universal psychopath, is born when the individual ego is weakened to the point at which it loses separate identity and is forced, for security, to merge with the mass.” MenIndividualBornLosesAtheismSecurityIdentityEgoMassUniversalPositive AtheismPsychopath Author:Robert M. Lindner
“Activity proneness in the service of an ideology ... leads the individual into an irreversible series of commitments from which is forged an identity to which the individual inevitably becomes strongly attached psychologically.” IndividualAtheismIdentityActivityCommitmentSeriesPositive AtheismIdeologyForgedIrreversible Author:Edgar Schein
“In Tar Baby, the classic concept of the individual with a solid, coherent identity is eschewed for a model of identity which sees the individual as a kaleidoscope of heterogeneous impulses and desires, constructed from multiple forms of interaction with the world as a play of difference that cannot be completely comprehended.” WorldPlayFormDesireLiteratureIndividualDifferencesIdentityBabyModelsConceptsImpulseClassicInteractionMultipleKaleidoscope Author:Toni Morrison
“When we live life centered around what others like, feel, and say, we lose touch with our own identity. I am an eternal being, created by God. I am an individual with purpose. It's not what I get from life, but who I am, that makes the difference.” FeelsPurposeIndividualLosesDifferencesIdentityEternalWho I AmLive Life Author:Neva Coyle
“The gut-strung guitar, the classical guitar, that is a whole different world on its own. When you think what the guitar can do and what every individual player does with a guitar, everyone has their own identity coming through the guitar.” ThinkingWorldDoeDifferentWholeIndividualCan DoPlayerIdentityGuitarGutsDifferent WorldsClassical Guitar Author:Jimmy Page
“The fundamental principle [of settlement work] remains: that people shall take up their residence in industrial communities, giving what they may have of public spirit, and partaking of the life about them; preserving their identity as individuals and endeavoring to keep the settlement free from the institutional form of philanthropic work. ... the relationship is reciprocal.” PeopleGivingMayFormSpiritIndividualCommunityPrinciplesIdentityDignityFundamentalsRemainsSettlementPhilanthropicReciprocalFundamental PrinciplesResidence Author:Lillian Wald
“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.” IfsKnowsLooksIndividualDifficultImagineIdentityAbsolutesIndividualityImagine ThatPersonal Identity Author:John Banville
“As a writer, I have to admit, there is something darkly compelling about Alzheimer's because it attacks the two things most central to a writer's craft - language and memory, which together make up an individual's identity. Alzheimer's makes a new character out of a familiar person.” PersonsTwoCharacterTogetherIndividualLanguageMemoriesIdentityFamiliarCraftsTwo ThingsCompellingAlzheimerAlzheimer's Author:Charlie Pierce
“You are never alone in Afghanistan. You are always in the company of others, usually family. You don't understand yourself really as an individual, you understand yourself as part of something bigger than yourself. Family is so central to your identity, to how you make sense of your world, it is very dramatic, and therefore an amazing source of storytelling, a source of fiction for me.” WorldIndividualFictionCompanyIdentitySourceBiggerStorytellingMake SenseDramaticAfghanistanSomething Bigger Than Yourself Author:Khaled Hosseini