Collective Self Quotes

A great poet does not express his or her self; he expresses all of our selves.

The Public is merely a multiplied 'me.'

Photography itself is most frequently nothing but the reproduction of the image that a group produces of its own integration.

You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree. You can't hate Africa and not hate yourself.

I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I'm gone which would not have happened if I had not come.

One of poetry's great effects, through its emphasis upon feeling, association, music, and image - things we recognize and respond to even before we understand why - is to guide us toward the part of ourselves so deeply buried that it borders upon the collective.

I'm a novelist, a critic, an essayist - I tend to see politics as a subset of cultures rather than the other way around. It's a human enterprise, a tool or a technology revealing our collective inner self.

In all people I see myself - none more, and not one a barleycorn less; And the good or bad I say of myself, I say of them.

The profound self is a universal self.

All Scandinavians feel a tiny bit self conscious, of which I'm one.

I refer to myself as 'we.'

You can't be hateful because you love yourself. And we're extensions of each other; we're all connected.

The concept of a divine, or 'Christ'-mind, is the idea that, at our core, we are not just identical, but actually the same being.