Quotes about Identity

You are constantly invited to be what you are.

Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.

The Gods we worship write their names on our faces; be sure of that. And a man will worship something ... That which dominates will determine his life and character. Therefore it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.

Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding

Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

FOR EVERY STOIC WAS A STOIC BUT WHERE IN CHRISTENDOM IS THE CHRISTIAN?

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be

Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start.

A man must consider what rich realms he abdicates when he becomes a conformist

Tis not important how the hero does this or this, but what he is. What he is will appear in every gesture and syllable. In this way the moment and the character are one.

For every stoic was a stoic; but in Christendom where is the Christian?

The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than he is.