Karen Joy Fowler Quotes

Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.

I desire therefore I exist.

Knowledge is porportionate to being... You know in virtue of what you are.

The other half is to dramatize the fact that we still 'are' human beings, now. Or can be.

The ancient human question 'Who am I?' leads inevitably to the equally important question 'Whose am I?' - for there is no self outside of relationship.

You are not a human being. You are not your body, you are not your mind, and you are not your soul. These are things that You have. The You that has these things - indeed, that has given your Self these things - is far bigger than any of them, and even all of them put together.

Are we our bodies? Is a small person less than a big person, then? If we were our bodies, then when we lost an arm, or a leg, would we be less, would we begin to fade from existence? No. We are the same person. We are not our bodies; we are our thoughts. As they form, they define who we are, and create the reality of our existence.

We are what we are, wherever we are.

All we are is in the soul.

We do not become. We simply are.

An 'I' without a body is a possibility. But a body without an 'I' is utterly impossible.

I can say, 'Well, I'm a male. I'm a male human. I'm a medical doctor. I'm an author...' If I go to a religious point of view, I will say, 'I am a soul. I am a spirit.' If I go into science, I will say, 'I am energy. I am light.' But the truth is I have no idea what I am.

We have the notion that we exist but we have no way to prove it. 'I am' is the closest foundation we can get.

What exactly is it that humans do that is specifically human? There has to be something. How odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of them is really quite sure of what makes people people.

You were born as the one you are.

After this whole acting thing is over and done, you eventually have to be human. Some people are never human. It's very weird.

I'm a human being before anything else.

I describe myself as a human being.

I've always thought that we are what we remember, and the less we remember, the less we are.

At times I think and at times I am.

From ancient times, the core idea of the soul is the soul is the capacity to integrate different functions into a single being or into a single person. The soul is what holds us all together: what connects our will and our minds and our bodies and connects us to God.

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.

Who are we? The answer to this question is not only one of the tasks but the task of science.

I'm not a machine.

The human body is not the person. Identity is the way the brain operates; it's memories, it's sensory input and output. The mind is the person.