“What we call a mind is nothing but a heap or collection of different perceptions, united together by certain relations and supposed, though falsely, to be endowed with a perfect simplicity and identity.” MindDifferentTogetherCertainPerfectUnitedIdentityPerceptionRelationSimplicityCollectionsDifferent Perceptions Book:A Treatise of Human Nature: Top Philosophy Collections Source: A Treatise of Human Nature: Top Philosophy Collections
“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.” DifferencesSubjectsIdentityPositionDemandClaimsRelationAbsolutesAll TimeRecognitionCategoriesIdenticalReciprocityIndividuation Author:Jurgen Habermas
“Identity is marketed in national capitalism as a property. It is something you can purchase, or purchase a relation to. Or it is something you already own that you can express: my masculinity, my queerness . But identity need not be simply a caption for an image of an unchangeable concrete self. It is also a theory of the future, of history.” NeedsSelfIdentityTheoryCapitalismRelationPropertyConcreteMasculinityUnchangeableCaption Author:Lauren Berlant
“The adolescent does not develop her identity and individuality by moving outside her family. She is not triggered by some magic unconscious dynamic whereby she rejects her family in favour of her peers or of a larger society.... She continues to develop in relation to her parents. Her mother continues to have more influence over her than either her father or her friends.” DoeMovingMotherFatherParentMagicInfluenceIdentityRelationIndividualityUnconsciousRejectsAdolescencePeersFavourMoving Out Author:Terri E Apter
“The only pertinent political question in relation to an identity [or its photograph] is not Is it really coherent? but What does it actually achieve?” DoePoliticalAchieveIdentityRelationPhotographPertinent Author:Victor Burgin
“The relation of photography and language is a principal site of struggle for value and power in contemporary representations of reality; it is the place where images and words find and lose their conscience, their aesthetic and ethical identity.” RealityValuesLanguageLosesStruggleIdentityPhotographyConscienceRelationContemporaryEthicalAestheticPrincipalSiteRepresentation Author:William J. Mitchell
“So long as the UK continues to maintain its own identity, it is my belief that the US and the UK should maintain close relations.” ShouldLongBeliefIdentityRelation Author:Diane Abbott
“Our relations with others are not external. They enter into our very identity. And that's why people struggle with them so.” PeopleStruggleIdentityRelation Author:Dallas Willard
“It was always said you couldn't have two sisters less alike. In a way [princess] Elizabeth was always internalizing everything and [princess] Margaret was always externalizing everything, so that became the basis. The storyline becomes about these two sisters: they're fighting for their position or trying to establish their identity in the world alongside each other and in relation to this establishment which only those two were a part of.” WorldWayTryingSaidTwoFightingIdentityPositionBasesRelationEstablishmentPrincessStorylineTwo SistersInternalizing Author:Vanessa Kirby
“For me, places are articulations of 'natural' and social relations, relations that are not fully contained within the place itself. So, first, places are not closed or bounded - which, politically, lays the ground for critiques of exclusivity. Second, places are not 'given' - they are always in open-ended process. They are in that sense 'events'. Third, they and their identity will always be contested (we could almost talk about local-level struggles for hegemony).” FirstsGivenSocialProcessNaturalLevelsStruggleEventsIdentityThirdsRelationLaysLocalsCritiqueHegemonySecond PlaceArticulationSocial RelationsExclusivity Author:Doreen Massey
“I'd say my relation to being a woman is, I mean being a woman is whatever you want because the concept of gender is not really real, you know? And so for me it's about being comfortable in myself. It's about allowing myself to express who I am in any way that I want to, whether that be through my clothing, the way I present myself to the world, whether that be through like my gender identity and my pronouns. It's just really about allowing yourself to really be expressive and creative.” WorldMeanRealCreativeIdentityRelationGender Author:Amandla Stenberg
“The Brazilian national identity is not one of João Gilberto Noll primary concerns. This does not mean social critique is absent: race, gender, and class relations are considered in Quiet Creature. And these are universal relational matters, not necessarily particular to any country. Some critics have commented that understanding the specific Brazilian political context of the novel is helpful for reading Quiet Creature. This may be true, but it's not prerequisite for understanding it.” MeanCountryPoliticalReadingUnderstandingNovelIdentityQuietConcernRelationCriticsGenderBeing TrueHelpfulCritique Author:Adam Morris
“Sometimes people base their identity on their gifting. But our identity is in Christ and ultimately has no relation to whatever gift the Spirit may have granted to us.” PeopleSometimesSpiritChristIdentityRelationGranted Author:Sam Storms
“Now that the most interesting matter of identity is not what place someone was born in, but what point in time they are from - where they sit in relation to time. Age has become much more divisive than place. With the Internet and globalization, a twenty-year-old in New York has far more cultural references in common with a twenty-year-old in Nebraska than they do with a thirty-year-old who lives next door. National identity is what they trick you with when they want your feet in their army boots or your taxes in their bailouts.” AgeInterestingCommonIdentityInternetTaxesArmyRelationGlobalizationMost Interesting Author:Nick Laird
“...it's my hypothesis that the individual is not a pre-given entity which is seized on by the exercise of power. The individual, with his identity and characteristics, is the product of a relation of power exercised over bodies, multiplicities, movements, desires, forces.” BodyDesireIndividualGivenForceMovementIdentityProductsExerciseRelationCharacteristicsEntityHypothesisMultiplicity Author:Michel Foucault
“Black males who refuse categorization are rare, for the price of visibility in the contemporary world of white supremacy is that black identity be defined in relation to the stereotype whether by embodying it or seeking to be other than it…Negative stereotypes about the nature of black masculinity continue to overdetermine the identities black males are allowed to fashion for themselves.” WorldBlackWhiteFashionIdentityNegativeRelationMalesSeekingRefuseContemporaryDefinedStereotypeMasculinityWhite SupremacySupremacyVisibilityCategorizationBlack MalesNegative Stereotypes Book:We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity Source: We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity