“The chief requirement of the good life… is to live without any image of oneself.” — Iris Murdoch, The Bell
Tag: self-image
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“Sometimes you get a flash of what you look like to other people.” — Zadie Smith, On Beauty
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“Any kind of fame can lead you into a kind of self-caricature sequence where you end up being driven around by your image.” — Stewart Brand, “Stewart Brand – The Polymath of Polymaths,” The Tim Ferriss Show
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“Your happiness has a lot more to do with how you see the world than how the world sees you.” — Callie Khouri, Commencement Address, Sweet Briar College (22 May 1994)
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“Our thought, incessantly deciding, among many things of a kind, which ones for it shall be realities, here chooses one of many possible selves or characters, and forthwith reckons it no shame to fail in any of those not adopted expressly as its own.” — William James, The Principles of Psychology
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“I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.” — Jack London, Letter to Charles Warren Stoddard
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“Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself.” — Upton Sinclair, The Profits of Religion
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