4006 | I can only be aware of myself as a person who changes by means of my personal history [Taylor,C] |
21050 | I can only make decisions if I see myself as part of a story [MacIntyre] |
7381 | We tell stories about ourselves, to protect, control and define who we are [Dennett] |
7382 | We spin narratives about ourselves, and the audience posits a centre of gravity for them [Dennett] |
5353 | The self is an abstraction which magnifies important aspects of autobiography [Flanagan] |
5354 | We are not born with a self; we develop a self through living [Flanagan] |