Lev Vygotsky Quotes

Through the Thou a person becomes I.

The first half of life is spent mainly in finding out who we are through seeing ourselves in our interaction with others.

It is through others that we become ourselves.

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

All of us, at some moment, have had a vision of our existence as something unique, untransferable and very precious. This revelation almost always takes place during adolescence.

Each character represented a trait that resides in me.

I want to know who you are as a person, and then I want you to develop as a whole human being.

Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves, it is because we have no personality.

I didn't start to work until I realized what it was I had to offer. I stopped imitating performers I admired and started just being myself.

Ellis's understanding of himself and the world around him certainly develops because of his adventures, and part of that development comes through recognizing other people for what they are.

Transcendence constitutes selfhood.

I have always felt that I am the sum total of my parts.

I think that we're all continually searching for who we are, and that's ever-evolving and changing.

I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that you really must make the self.

Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.

I think your self emerges more clearly over time.

I developed a sense of self before moving to crazy Hollywood, which was really important.

You don't realize how much a part of your character is part of yourself until you are no longer playing that character.

It took me 30 years to figure out who I really am, as a person, and who I want to surround myself with. I was very much the kind of person who would just meld in with whatever group I was near.

I'm not that tough; I'm not that smart. I need life telling me who I am, showing me my mind constantly. I wouldn't see it in a cave.

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

I feel there's something about becoming a character that helps people understand themselves.

Then, at some point, you get identified with certain things.

When you have a lot of people telling you what you are and perceiving you in a certain way, it's difficult to find your own identity.