identity Quotes

As individual people, embedded in our daily lives, of course we're interested in what makes one person different from another. We've got to hire one person and not another, marry one person and not another.

Personality and socialization aren't the same thing.

In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature, rude and aboriginal as a white bear.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.