Quotes about Identity
We were made to be neither cerebral men nor visceral men, but Men. Not beasts nor angels but Men - things at once rational and animal.
— CS Lewis
No man knows himself as an original.
— Washington Allston
I look like a woman, but I think like a man.
— Dolly Parton
It's a burden to us even to be human beings-men with our own real body and blood; we are ashamed of it, we think it a disgrace and try to contrive to be some sort of impossible generalized man.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Man's life on earth has only one end and purpose: to identify himself with his eternal Self and so to come to unitive knowledge of the Divine Ground.
— Aldous Huxley
Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father's expectations or make up for their father's mistakes.
— Barack Obama
Every man must walk to the beat of his own drummer.
— Henry David Thoreau
O that men would know themselves to be men; and that he that glorieth would glory in the Lord.
— St. Augustine
The man who lives in division is living in death. He cannot find himself because he is lost; he has ceased to be a reality. The person he believes himself to be is a bad dream.
— Thomas Merton
The primary cause of this national crisis is the feminization of men.
— Tony Evans
Men seek fame and high places only to learn that they were happier in obscurity
— Vance Havner
It is by his freedom that a man knows himself, by his sovereignty over his own life that a man measures himself.
— Elie Wiesel