identity

"The more we try to wrest ourselves from our ego, the deeper we sink into it."

"How much filth there is in the Church, even among those who, in the priesthood, should belong entirely to Him. How much pride, how much self-sufficiency."

"At a certain point I realized that the "I" doesn't exist. So I said to myself: If the "I" doesn't exist, I have to construct one, or maybe even more than one."

"Accustom yourself to tireless activity..."

"It's truly a lie, I counterfeit myself."

"Self acceptance is the sexiest thing to me."

"Any individual is greater than the Milky Way."

"Do they want me to stay? Do they want me to leave? Do they want me to hang myself? To kill myself? What do they want?"

"Anyone, from the most clueless amateur to the best cryptographer, can create an algorithm that he himself can't break."

"I myself was to experience how easily one is taken in by a lying and censored press and radio in a totalitarian state."

"Gari in Russian means "burn!"… I want to test myself, a trial by fire, so that my I is burned off."

"They looked up and Prince Tsui introduced himself and they didn’t care. Their stomachs were empty."

"If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world."

"Pathans! Your house has fallen into ruin. Arise and rebuild it and remember to what race you belong."

"Liberace: What do we have for dinner?"

"Looking back, I ask myself why so little of the basic research has had an impact on professional practice."

"Each individual is a species unto him/herself."

"Internal regulation of the system by the group was thus rendered possible rather than the external regulation of individuals by supervisors."

"Bolshevism is a disease which is peculiar to Russia. It will never grow deep roots in any countries which are not entirely Russian."

"Meditation, like masturbation, has until recently been considered a form of self-abuse."