... my today's self perpetually slips out of any hold of it that I may try to take.

... my today's self perpetually slips out of any hold of it that I may try to take.

To see is one thing; to picture or visualise is another. A person can see things, only when his eyes are open, and when his surroundings are illuminated; but he can have pictures in his mind's eye, when his eyes are shut and when the world is dark.

In searching for the self, one cannot simultaneously be the hunter and the hunted.

A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in the idioms appropriate to another. To explode a myth is accordingly not to deny the facts but to re-allocate them.

Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine. He might, after all, be a sort of animal, namely, a higher mammal. There has yet to be ventured the hazardous leap to the hypothesis that perhaps he is a man.

Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine.