Bertrand Russell Quotes

The secret is to have a sense of yourself, your real self, your unique self. And not just once in a while, or once a day, but all through the day, the week and life.

I think in the whole field of questions about what we take to be "real," one of those questions is about the self. When you talk about the self we're always talking about whether it's a construction and it's a construction we're always in the process of working on. I don't think that work ever ends, to some degree.

You know it's real when you are who you think you are

After all, what is your personal identity? It is what you really are, your real self. None of us is what he thinks he is, or what other people think he is, still less what his passport says he is. And it is fortunate for most of us that we are mistaken. We do not generally know what is good for us. That is because, in St. Bernard's language, our true personality has been concealed under the 'disguise' of a false self, the ego, whom we tend to worship in place of God.

The "ego" like its correlative "non-ego", is the product of the body, mind etc. The only proof of the existence of the real Self is realisation.

I think, therefore I am.

I suppose identity depends on memory. And if my memory is blotted out, then I wonder if I exist - I mean, if I am the same person. Of course, I don't have to solve that problem. It's up to God, if any.

I--this thought which is called I--is the mould into which the world is poured like melted wax.

A subject emerges from an interaction between my self, my I, and my medium.

We have the real self and the false self, there's nothing wrong with them, and everyone has both of them.

I am not an image. I am a human being.

I think, therefore I am' is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.

Where are my sensations? They have melted into... me, and what is this me, this self, but the sum of these evaporated sensations?

Although he may not be human, it’s good that Messi still thinks he is.

I find that when I do not think of myself I do not think at all.

I am. I think. I will.

Be conscious first of thyself within, then think and act. All living thought is a world in preparation; all real act is a thought manifested. The material world exists because an idea began to play in divine self–consciousness.

Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories.

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.

Philosophy is the self-correction by consciousness of its own initial excess of subjectivity.

That I am not my experiences is very obvious. I am the one who is having those experiences. Spirituality has nothing to do with experience.

When you look in the mirror what do you see? Do you see the real you, or what you have been conditioned to believe is you?

A conscious mind is a mind with a self in it.

I know myself as mortal, but this raises the question: "What is I?" Am I an individual, or am I an evolving life stream composed of countless selves?