
Source: Kritik der zynischen Vernunft [Critique of Cynical Reason] (1983), pp. 60-61
Quote, 1960's; as quoted in The New York school – the painters & sculptors of the fifties, Irving Sandler, Harper & Row, Publishers, 1978, p. 307
Quotes, 1960 - 1970
Source: Kritik der zynischen Vernunft [Critique of Cynical Reason] (1983), pp. 60-61
“It was all my identities, all rolling in over me.”
Be Here Now (1971)
Context: I recall starting to "come down" and this huge red wave rolled in across the room. … It was all my identities, all rolling in over me. I remember holding up my hand and saying, "NO, NO, I don't want to go back." It was like this heavy burden I was going to take on myself. And I realized I didn't have the key — I didn't know the magic words, like "Abracadabra" or "Hocus Pocus" or whatever it was going to be that would stop that wave.
“The identity of the Filipino today is of a person asking what is his identity.”
Source: Culture and History
On being Black and gay in the United States in “'We're All Struggling': Writer Saeed Jones Reflects On Identity And Acceptance” https://www.npr.org/2019/11/06/776747102/we-re-all-struggling-writer-saeed-jones-reflects-on-identity-and-acceptance in NPR (2019 Nov 6)
“Human beings are not born identical.”
Introduction to the Bhagavad-Gita (1944)
Context: Human beings are not born identical. There are many different temperaments and constitutions; and within each psycho-physical class one can find people at very different stages of spiritual development. Forms of worship and spiritual discipline which may be valuable for one individual maybe useless or even positively harmful for another belonging to a different class and standing, within that class, at a lower or higher level of development.
“You create identity, you're not given identity per se.”
Hannibal Lecter, My Father (1991)
Context: You create identity, you're not given identity per se. What became more interesting to me wasn't the I, it was text because it's texts that create the identity. That's how I got interested in plagiarism.
On the recurring theme of his works in “CARYL PHILLIPS: INTERVIEW” https://mosaicmagazine.org/caryl-phillips-interview/#.Xe58ovlKjcs in Mosaic Magazine (2012 Mar 19)
Against Authority: Freedom and the Rise of Surveillance States (2014)
Letter to W G Whittaker, 1914, quoted in Paul Holmes Holst p. 62.