identity

"Let her who is forty call herself forty; but if she can be young in spirit at forty, let her show that she is so."

"II. The tax which each individual is bound to pay ought to be certain, and not arbitrary."

"The inner compass of Alexei Navalny says where to go to Alexei Navalny, and everything else is uninteresting to me."

"“I nominate myself” means “I won’t follow.” This isn’t hubris: it is simply the fruit of your decision to live on your own terms."

"Again he was thrown upon his resources; which have always appeared to me the very worst things on which an unfortunate individual can be thrown in the way of amusement."

"You could not claim for yourself that which you were not prepared to grant others."

"My off-white poodle. She doesn't consider herself to be gay, but I have my hunch."

"Deceiving himself well is the first quality of the statesman."

"115. If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting itself presupposes."

"I look at Hank and he nods and I nod and for a brief second I feel strong. Not strong enough to face myself, but strong enough to keep going."

"As headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile."

"Full use of the inner senses is not even for me yet."

"What is my Individuality good for, anyway? And is it truly holy, or was I only taught that because the robots who taught me were programmed by someone, once, to say it?"

"I had no shoes, and I felt sorry for myself until I met a man who had no feet. I took his shoes. Now I feel better."

"原文: Who has deveiv'd thee so oft as thy self?"

"The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself."

"Its quite an experience to be locked up all by yourself in any size room, no less a little cell."

"So long as you “have” yourself, have yourself as an object, your experience of man is only as of a thing among things."

"The ego is not master in its own house."

"The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. That remark in itself wouldn’t make any sense if quoted as it stands."