Self

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Quotes on self and identity.

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• Of course, "O'Blivion" was not the name I was born with. That's my television name. Soon, all of us will have special names — names designed to cause the cathode ray tube to resonate. ~ Professor Brian O'Blivion, Videodrome

• "To thine own self be true." - Polonius, Hamlet

Attributed

• "Do not repair another man's fence until you have seen to your own." - Anonymous

• "If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won before you have started." ~ Marcus Garvey

• "If you love yourself others will hate you, if you humble yourself others will love you." ~ Anonymous

• "Knowing others is wisdom. Knowing oneself is enlightenment." ~ Lao Tzu

• "The best mirror is an old friend." ~ George Herbert

• "Cogito ergo sum." "I think, therefore I am." ~ Descartes

• "I am because we are; and since we are, therefore I am." ~ J. S. Mbiti

• "Some people say they haven't yet found themselves. But the self is not something one finds; it is something one creates." ~ Thomas Szasz

• "...the self is the modern subsitute for the soul." ~ Alan Bloom (1987)

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