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“There is good evidence for a sensorimotor self, an emotional and motivational self probably represented in the right hemisphere, a social self-system, and perhaps an appetitive self. All these self-systems ordinarily work in reasonable coordination with each other, though they can be in conflict at times.”
“If there is a community of computers living in my head, there had also better be somebody who is in charge; and, by God, it had better be me.”
“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
“We are unknown to ourselves, we knowers: and with good reason. We have never looked for ourselves — so how are we ever supposed to find ourselves? … We remain strange to ourselves out of necessity, we do not understand ourselves, we must confusedly mistake who we are, the motto, 'everyone is furthest from himself' applies to us for ever, - we are not 'knowers' when it comes to ourselves…”
“People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.”
“Self-image is the beginning and ending of living, I think.”
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Not who you're looking for? Others named Self: individual person as the object of their own reflective cons · programming language · 1996 novel by Yann Martel · 2024 short film by Searit Kahsay Huluf
Self is the fourth studio album by the English group Quintessence. It was the final album by the band to feature Maha Dev and Shiva Shankar Jones as both were fired from the band by Raja Ram prior to the release of Indweller.
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