“If, whilst I am, I am as I should be, what do I care more? And thus let me lose self every hour, and be twenty successive selfs, or new selfs, ‘tis all one to me: so [long as] I lose not my opinion [i.e. my overall outlook, my character, my moral identity]. If I carry that with me ’tis I; all is well. . . . – The now; the now. Mind this: in this is all.”
Earl of Shaftesbury – 1698–1712, pp. 136–137.
Writer Between Worlds 