Self Conception Quotes

“Whose non existence is necessary to the self conception of this place?”
― Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

“The decision as to whether to risk one’s actual life or to surrender the ideal self-conception is a decision about who one is.

(from The structure of desire and recognition)”
― Robert Brandom

“As the mind of the individual develops within various contexts, such as the family or different educational institutions, it seeks out those various and fluctuating traditions that are at hand. The child learns, for example, to speak the language of his or her nation and what it means to be a member of that nation as expressed through its customs and laws. These traditions become incorporated into individual's understanding of the self. When those traditions that make a part of one's self-conception are shared by other individuals as part of their self-conception, one is then both related to those other individuals and aware of the relation. The relation itself, for example, living in the same geographical area or speaking a common language, is what is meant by the term "collective consciousness".”
― Steven Grosby, Nationalism: A Very Short Introduction

“We are not complete in ourselves without others, without a world to complement our self-conception—and were we to become so complete, we could not bear it! The fullness of ourselves would break us. We burn. The point of Figment/Fragment/Filament”—claws spread to encompass the whole warehouse space—“is to reflect, refract the beauty of physical form, the glorious futility of our quest for complete knowledge, mastery, or independence.”
― Max Gladstone, The Ruin of Angels

“Attitude doesn’t exist in friendship. People having attitude problem in true relationships are not sincere. They just show off their ego. They are self conceited.”
― Ghazala Muhammad Ali

“After much conversation, the tomato plant finally understood that it might not be beautiful, but it can satisfy a hungry palette with its rich flavor. And the rose bush understood that it cannot feed the stomach, but it can fill the senses with its lavish beauty and sweet scents. And from that point forward neither had the desire to be the other, for they understood that such a foolish action would have caused them to lose the marvelous ability to complement the other.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough