Self-Image

(184 votes)   Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution. Poignant longings for beauty, for an end to probing below the surface, for a redemption and celebration of the body of the world. Ultimately, having an experience becomes identical with taking a photograph of it.

Susan Sontag
1933-, American Essayist

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(147 votes)   As you see yourself, I once saw myself; as you see me now, you will be seen.

Mexican Proverbs
Sayings of Mexican Origin

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(108 votes)   Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.

William James
1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author

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(99 votes)   The world has become uglier since it began to look into a mirror every day; so let us settle for the mirror image and do without an inspection of the original.

Karl Kraus
1874-1936, Austrian Satirist

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(94 votes)   It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

Richard M. Nixon
1913-1994, Thirty-seventh President of the USA

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(86 votes)   Your self image is your pattern!. Every thought has an activity visualized. Every activity belongs to a pattern. You identify with your pattern or thought. Your patterns leads your life.

J. G. Gallimore

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(85 votes)   No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need people to bear witness against our inner judge, who keeps book on our shortcomings and transgressions. We need people to convince us that we are not as bad as we think we are.

Eric Hoffer
1902-1983, American Author, Philosopher

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(85 votes)   To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is the merest decency. But it is from the far more difficult achievement of seeing ourselves amongst others, as a local example of the forms human life has locally taken, a case among cases, a world among worlds, that the largeness of mind, without which objectivity is self-congratulation and tolerance a sham, comes.

Clifford Geertz
1926-, American Anthropologist

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(83 votes)   If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.

E. M. Cioran
1911-, Rumanian-born French Philosopher

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(80 votes)   Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. This is the first step towards becoming either estimable or agreeable; and until it be taken there is no hope. The sooner the discovery is made the better, as there is more time and power for taking advantage of it. Sometimes the great truth is found out too late to apply to it any effectual remedy. Sometimes it is never found at all; and these form the desperate and inveterate causes of folly, self-conceit, and impertinence.

Lord Melbourne
1779-1848, British Statesman, Prime Minister

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(79 votes)   We operate with nothing but things which do not exist, with lines, planes, bodies, atoms, divisible time, divisible space -- how should explanation even be possible when we first make everything into an image, into our own image!

Friedrich Nietzsche
1844-1900, German Philosopher

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(74 votes)   The visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of the conceptual sophistication of literary criticism. Drunk with self-love, criticism has hugely overestimated the centrality of language to western culture. It has failed to see the electrifying sign language of images.

Camille Paglia
1947-, American Author, Critic, Educator

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(70 votes)   The reign of imagagology begins where history ends.

Milan Kundera
1929-, Czech Author, Critic

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(65 votes)   Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.

Paul De Man
1919-1983, Belgian-born American Literary Critic

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(56 votes)   For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as being without memory.

Werner Herzog
1942-, German Film Director

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