An artist has got to get acquainted with himself just as much as he can. It is no easy job, for it is not a present-day habit of humanity.
You have to learn to recognize your own depths.
What we do not confront, we inhabit.What we do not reject, we accept.What we do not fight, we become.
The essence of the charge made against the modern high-status ideal is that it is guilty of effecting a gigantic distortion of priorities, of elevating to the highest level of achievement a process of...
I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to know better.
Being aware of who you are, you will ensure that you do not waste your time spending energy on unnecessary things
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
Our lives teach us who we are." I have learned the hard way that when you permit anyone else's description of reality to supplant your own ... then you might as well be dead.
My ignorance is essential. I do not write what I know but what I need to know.
At that moment, when the world around him melted away, when he stood alone like a star in the heavens, he was overwhelmed by a feeling of icy despair, but he was more firmly himself than ever. That wa...
If you know who you are, it reduces your fear of trials
There are pearls in the deepest fathoms of the Self, but to get them you will have to go through unimaginable perils.
To succeed and reach your life goals, you must know who you are
In this world, it is a great Self-effort to deliberately remain ignorant despite knowing, right? I deliberately remain ignorant in spite of having the Knowledge.
Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.
The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality and my life, as I write this, is vital even when sad. I may wake up sometime next year without my mind again; it is not likely to stick around...
The view is endlessly fulfilling. It is like the answer to a lifetime of questions and vague cravings.
The greatest of empires, is the empire over one's self.
The politeness which she had been brought up to practice as a duty made it impossible for her to escape; while the want of that higher species of self-command, that just consideration of others, that...