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  • We read books to find out who we are.

    Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.31, Ultramarine Publishing
  • Man know thyself; then thou shalt know the Universe and God.

  • Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.

    Hugh Prather (2009). “Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person”, p.41, Bantam
  • To know thyself--in others self-concern; Would'st thou know others? read thyself--and learn!

    Self   Concern   Knows  
  • Wouldst thou know thyself, observe the actions of others. Wouldst thou other men know, look thou within thine own heart.

    Life   Heart   Knowledge  
    Friedrich Schiller (1851). “The Poems of Schiller, Complete: Including All His Early Suppressed Pieces”, p.269
  • Active, successful natures act, not according to the maxim, "know thyself," but as if prompted by the commandment: will a self, and so become a self.

  • Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. Yet from this lesson thou will learn to avoid the frog's foolish ambition of swelling to rival the bigness of the ox.

    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.586, Wordsworth Editions
  • Know thyself,’ said Socrates. Know thyself,’ said Sappho, ‘and make sure that the Church never finds out.

    Jeanette Winterson (1995). “Art & Lies: A Piece for Three Voices and a Bawd”, Knopf
  • Truly know thyself, and to thine own self be true.

    Self   Being True   Knows  
    "Origin Series: Empire Actor Adam Rodriguez". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
  • The aim of human life is to know thyself. Think for yourself. Question authority. Think with your friends. Create, create new realities. Philosophy is a team sport. Philosophy is the ultimate, the ultimate aphrodisiac pleasure. Learning how to operate your brain, learning how to operate your mind, learning how to redesign chaos

  • Know thyself and thou wilt know the universe.

  • It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.

  • Know thyself as the pride of His creation, the link uniting divinity and matter; behold a part of God Himself within thee; remember thine own dignity nor dare descend to evil or meanness.

    Pride   Evil   Links  
  • Let's have a merry journey, and shout about how light is good and dark is not. What we should do is not future ourselves so much. We should now ourselves. "Now thyself" is more important than "know thyself." Reason is what tells us to ignore the present and live in the future. So all we do is make plans. We think that somewhere there are going to be green pastures. It's crazy. Heaven is nothing but a grand, monumental instance of future. Listen, now is good. Now is wonderful.

    Crazy   Future   Dark  
  • There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

    Benjamin Franklin (1962). “Representative selections: with introduction, bibliography, and notes”
  • Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

    Art   Discovery   Self  
    Elizabeth Frank, Jackson Pollock (1983). “Jackson Pollock”, Abbeville Pr
  • There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

  • In every case, the remedy is to take action. Get clear about exactly what it is that you need to learn and exactly what you need to do to learn it. BEING CLEAR KILLS FEAR. Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.

  • I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.

    Life   Sassy   Discovery  
    Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.59, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
  • Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

    'Self-Dependence' (1852) l. 31
  • One has to know the size of one's stomach.

    Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.695, Modern Library
  • There is no satisfaction that can compare with looking back across the years and finding you've grown in self-control, judgment, generosity, and unselfishness.

    Self   Years   Generosity  
  • The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.

    Heart   Men   Discovery  
  • The beginning of knowledge is to know thyself a sinner.

  • The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer.

    Men   Watches   Firsts  
    Adam Smith (2015). “The Money Game”, p.24, Open Road Media
  • Know thyself, for through thyself only thou canst know God.

    John Ruskin (1860). “Modern Painters”, p.204
  • A man may call to mind the face of his friend, but not his own. Here, then, is an initial difficulty in the way of applying the maxim, Know Thyself.

    Men   Mind   May  
    Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.30, 谷月社
  • Over the entrance to the temple at Delphi was a famous inscription: KNOW THYSELF! It reminded visitors that man must never believe himself to be more than mortal - and that no man can escape his destiny.

    Believe   Destiny   Men  
    Jostein Gaarder (2010). “Sophie's World”, p.55, Hachette UK
  • Anything an artist does is to show ourselves as we really are, which is a complex thing. I don't think that one work of Philosophy or Art, or Letters, or Acting, or Middle Playing, or Tightrope Walking, or Flea Circuses has made mankind better, if by better you mean kinder, wiser, more tolerant of each other. One thing self knowledge. Knoticayton: know thyself.

    Art   Philosophy   Mean  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom.

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