Greg Egan Quotes

I believe that it is made out of the same cloth of mind, but it is an add-on, it was something that was specialized to create what we call the self. And it exists for very special purposes and it has very special, and I think by and large good consequences, although not only good consequences.

In the sleeping state, instead, one is much more oneself, even if society never ceases to intervene.

Remind people who they are instead of just complimenting them on what they've done.

It took me years to learn that character is fate and that no one can be made over.

The child is born with a Self but not with an ego. The child develops the ego. As he becomes more and more social and related, ego develops. This ego is just on your periphery where you are related with others - just on the boundary of your being. So ego is the periphery of your being, and Self is the center. The child is born with a Self, but unaware. He is a Self, but he is not conscious of the Self.

I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring.

For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality consists. In my present human form of consciousness I simply cannot tell.

It's so much easier to know who you are when there aren't a thousand people telling you who they think you are.

If you can understand the inner life, then you can wear the uniform, the tattoos, or whatnot and realize that the things that are different about us become superficial.

My interest lies in my self-expression - what's inside of me - not what I'm in.

The brain is behind the really big questions we have. Who am I, what is my identity? What is that based on? If memories are encoded in connectomes, your personality might be in your connectome. If that's the case, that's the basis of your uniqueness as a person.

You're an island no matter what you do. I think it's very dangerous to use popularity as your identity in life. So you have to really know who you are inside, the core person, and follow what is true rather than follow what is hype.

Everybody has their own way of tapping into their realness.

I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that's always existed.

I don't know what else I would be if I wasn't me. I am not looking from the outside, looking back. I am who I am.

I can't turn off the way I think, and that's essentially who I am, who anybody is.

Having long suspected that there was something alive in there, running the place, separate from everything else, absolutely individual and independent, we've celebrated by giving it a real name. My self.

You know what I miss? I miss myself, that time to just do things for myself.

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

I know the person I am, and I know the person I can be.

I think my mystery, or any person's mystery, is the thing that makes them most interesting. I try to be as conscious as possible of keeping that alive.

I don't find myself intriguing.

You can listen to 'Cosmic' and truly get to know me, which I think is special.

All my work is not personal - I've been trying to get away from that into the true self underneath all the tastes and things we think make up a self.

I identify with my womanhood before anything else because that's what I deal with when I am alone.