(732 quotes found)
“Children don't read to find their identity, to free themselves from guilt, to quench the thirst for rebellion or to get rid of alienation. They have no use for psychology.... They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff.... When a book is boring, they yawn openly. They don't expect their writer to redeem humanity, but leave to adults such childish illusions.”
Isaac Bashevis Singer
“A wife should no more take her husband's name than he should hers. My name is my identity and must not be lost.”
Lucy Stone
“A miracle is nothing more or less than this. Anyone who has come into a knowledge of his true identity, of his oneness with the all-pervading wisdom and power, this makes it possible for laws higher than the ordinary mind knows of to be revealed to him.”
Ralph Waldo Trine
“Faith is never identical with piety.”
Karl Barth
“Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity”
Marshall McLuhan
“Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our "beauty" so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air”
Naomi Wolf
“The pleasure of living and the pleasure of the orgasm are identical. Extreme orgasm anxiety forms the basis of the general fear of life.”
Wilhelm Reich
“One thing, however, is certain. Although we may never know with complete certainty the identity of the winner of this year's presidential election, the identity of the loser is perfectly clear. It is the nation's confidence in the judge as an impartial guardian of the rule of law.”
John Paul Stevens
“‘the doer’ is merely a fiction added to the deed – the deed is everything.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“I wish I could say Tom was any better. His identity presses upon me so all day that I am obliged to go out.”
John Keats
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