identity Quotes

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.

Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.

What you are comes to you.

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.

There is but one stage for the peasant and the actor.

If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.