One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
- Friedrich Nietzsche -
Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
- Michel Foucault -
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde -
"A man can be himself only so long as he is alone."
- Arthur Schopenhauer -
"Identity is a never-ending conversation with oneself."
- Zygmunt Bauman -
We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.
- Jean-Paul Sartre -