If you know who you are, it makes you immune to criticism
Intuition: the feeling you know something when you know nothing.
If he stays inside himself, if he is contained within his nature as he is participant in the larger force, he will be able to listen, and his hearing through himself will give him secrets objects shar...
It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.
Commandment #1: Believe in yourself. Commandment #2: Get over yourself.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
Men forget where the way leads and what they meet with every day seems strange to them.We should not act and speak like men asleep.
The immediate result of abandoned idealism is an embittered and drained man, whether he realizes it or not, whether he likes it or not. He is capable of acting in his own interest, but only to the ext...
I spent a long time in the study of the abstract sciences, and was disheartened by the small number of fellow-students in them. When I commenced the study of man, I saw that these abstract sciences ar...
I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to know better.
The greatest of empires, is the empire over one's self.
To know oneself means above all to know what one likes
I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. I am all these things at once and cannot add up the sum.
To know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks.
The view is endlessly fulfilling. It is like the answer to a lifetime of questions and vague cravings.
Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.
You find your genius by looking in the mirror of your life. Your visible image shows your inner truth, so when you're estimating others, what you see is what you get. It therefore becomes critically i...
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.
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...
Doubtless some ancient Greek has observed that behind the big mask and the speaking-trumpet, there must always be our poor little eyes peeping as usual and our timorous lips more or less under anxious...
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