5886 | Like the eye, the soul has no power to see itself, but sees other things [Cicero] |
1316 | Introspection always discovers perceptions, and never a Self without perceptions [Hume] |
5551 | I have no cognition of myself as I am, but only as I appear to myself [Kant] |
12115 | Introspection is pure illusion; we can obviously observe everything except ourselves [Comte] |
24144 | A cognitive mechanism wanting to know itself is absurd! [Nietzsche] |
2932 | 'Know thyself' is impossible and ridiculous [Nietzsche] |
7157 | We think each thought causes the next, unaware of the hidden struggle beneath [Nietzsche] |
5689 | Freud and others have shown that we don't know our own beliefs, feelings, motive and attitudes [Freud, by Shoemaker] |
20429 | Most of us are too close to our own motives to understand them [Fry] |
5380 | In perceiving the sun, I am aware of sun sense-data, and of the perceiver of the data [Russell] |
7116 | When we are unreflective (as when chasing a tram) there is no 'I' [Sartre] |
7124 | The Ego never appears except when we are not looking for it [Sartre] |
1354 | We cannot introspect states of anger or panic [Ryle] |
1353 | Reporting on myself has the same problems as reporting on you [Ryle] |
5661 | We identify experiences by their owners, so we can't define owners by their experiences [Ayer] |
15815 | Sartre says the ego is 'opaque'; I prefer to say that it is 'transparent' [Chisholm] |
3468 | I cannot observe my own subjectivity [Searle] |
3363 | We often can't decide what emotion, or even sensation, we are experiencing [Kim] |
3412 | How do we distinguish our anger from embarrassment? [Kim] |
3102 | Why don't we experience or remember going to sleep at night? [Magee] |
5674 | We can't introspect ourselves as objects, because that would involve possible error [Cassam] |
6671 | It seems impossible to get generally applicable mental concepts from self-observation [Lowe] |
3518 | I'm not the final authority on my understanding of maths [Maslin] |