Quotes of Identification - somelinesforyou

“ Faith is primarily a process of identification; the process by which the individual ceases to be himself and becomes part of something eternal. ”

- Eric Hoffer

“ There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever… money, for instance, or war. ”

- Saul Bellow

“ Educating a son I should allow him no fairy tales and only a very few novels. This is to prevent him from having 1. the sense of romantic solitude which identification with the hero gives. 2. cant ideas of right and wrong, absurd systems of honor and morality which never will he be able completely to get rid of, 3… ”

- Lionel Trilling

“ It is amusing to discover, in the twentieth century, that the quarrels between two lovers, two mathematicians, two nations, two economic systems, usually assumed insoluble in a finite period should exhibit one mechanism, the semantic mechanism of identification — the discovery of which makes universal agreement possible, in mathematics and in life. ”

- Alfred Korzybski

“ No man worth his salt, no man of spirit and spine, no man for whom I could have any respect, could rejoice in the identification of Tallulah's husband. It's tough enough to be bogged down in a legend. It would be even tougher to marry one. ”

- Tallulah Bankhead
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