Identity Question Quotes

I handed my passport to the immigration officer, and he looked at it and looked at me and said, 'What are you?'

What Plato was really asking was perhaps why a horse was a horse, and not, for example, a cross between a horse and a pig.

Whenever I meet someone new, I always ask the same question... 'So, what do you do?

It is not only visitors to the zoo who are fascinated but uneasy in the presence of chimpanzees; the same is true of scientists. The more they learn about these great apes, the deeper our identity crisis seems to become. The resemblance between humans and chimpanzees is not only external. If we look straight and deep into a chimpanzee’s eyes, an intelligent, self-assured personality looks back at us. If they are animals, what must we be?

I wonder if I've been changed in the night. Let me think. Was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I'm not the same, the next question is 'Who in the world am I?' Ah, that's the great puzzle!

Who... who are you?' I asked at last. It was true. I had left a body in the park, but seriously, what was I supposed to do? Drag him back to my hotel and tell my bellhop my friend had had too much to drink?

I'm always thinking about what my identity is.

Was that you or the duck?

When we are born, when we enter this world, it is as if we signed a pact for the rest of our life, but a day may come when we will ask ourselves Who signed this on my behalf?

Am I an Israeli? That's a good question.