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Tag Name "Selfhood" (16)

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We now spend a good deal more on drink and smoke than we spend on education. This, of course, is not surprising. The urge to escape from selfhood and the environment is in almost everyone almost all the time.
Aldous Huxley
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Claim your divine, glorious selfhood. Think it, talk it, live it and it will demonstrate itself in your life.
Emmet Fox
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Most lives are a flight from selfhood. Most prefer the truths of the stable. You stick your head into the stanchions and munch contentedly until you die. Others use you for their purposes. Not once do you look outside the stable to lift your head and be your own creature.
Frank Herbert
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Ego synthesized is selfhood, the sense of self-importance, that you really matter ... nothing could be further from the truth.
Frederick Lenz
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There exists a fear of freedom of selfhood, which makes people want to submerge themselves in the mass and confession is one of the obvious means by which they can do so, for thereby they lose those traits which cause them to feel separate.
James A.C. Brown
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Freedom is the moment between sleep and waking before selfhood and the world return.
Mason Cooley
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In all cultures, the family imprints its members with selfhood. Human experience of identity has two elements a sense of belonging and a sense of being separate. The laboratory in which these ingredients are mixed and dispensed is the family, the matrix of identity.
Salvador Minuchin
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By the grace of God you are what you are glory in your selfhood, accept yourself and go on from there.
Wilferd Peterson
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I have confronted theoretical positions whose protagonists claim that what I take to be historically produced characteristics of what is specifically modern are in fact the timelessly necessary characteristics of all and any moral judgment, of all and any selfhood.
Alasdair MacIntyre
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The event of falling in love... in one high bound it has overleaped the massive wall of our selfhood it has made appetite itself altruistic, tossed personal happiness aside as a triviality and planted the interests of another in the centre of our being.
C. S. Lewis
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Our sense of being a person can come from being drawn into a wide social unit our sense of selfhood can arise through the little ways in which we resist the pull. Our status is backed by the solid buildings of the world, while our sense of personal identity often resides in the cracks
Erving Goffman
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There is no point in being a responsible member of society, nor is there any point in being an irresponsible member of society. Both are very defined descriptions of selfhood
Frederick Lenz
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To master the pride of defiant selfhood, that in truth is the highest bliss.
Gautama Buddha
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Transcendence constitutes selfhood.
Martin Heidegger
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Pour out wine till I become a wanderer from myself for in selfhood and existence I have felt only fatigue.
Rumi
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What might once have been called whining is now exalted as a process of asserting selfhood self-absorption is regarded as a form of self-expression.
Wendy Kaminer