If self-control were easy, we might end up accomplishing nothing at all.

To understand what we call the Self, we first must see what Selves are for.

The art of a great painting is not in any one idea, nor in a multitude of separate tricks for placing all those pigment spots, but in the great network of relationships among its parts.

Is a self a centralized entity? Is it a society that includes both images of what is (“data”) and ideals about what ought to be (“schema”)?