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  • The purpose of life is undoubtedly to know oneself. We cannot do it unless we learn to identify ourselves with all that lives. The sum-total of that life is God.

    Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.41, Oxford University Press
  • Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself.

    Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1935-1942”
  • What is freedom? It consists in two things: to know each his own limitations and accept them - that is the same thing as to know oneself, and accept oneself as one is, without fear, or envy, or distaste; and to recognise and accept the conditions under which one lives, also without fear or envy, or distaste. When you do this, you shall be free.

  • Life is like a sandwich! Birth as one slice, and death as the other. What you put in-between the slices is up to you. Is your sandwich tasty or sour?

  • Knowing oneself is not so much a question of discovering what is present in one's self, but rather the creation of who one wants to be.

    Self   Knowing  
  • To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

    Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.181, Tuttle Publishing
  • It is difficult to know oneself, but it isn't easy to paint oneself either.

  • To know oneself is to study oneself in action, which is relationship.

    Jiddu Krishnamurti (2013). “The first and last freedom”, p.48, Rajpal & Sons
  • Individuals inherit a particular space within an interlocking set of social relationships; lacking that space, they are nobody, or at best a stranger or an outcast. To know oneself as such a social person is however not to occupy a static and fixed position. It is to find oneself placed at a certain point on a journey with set goals; to move through life is to make progress - or to fail to make progress - toward a given end.

    Alasdair MacIntyre (2013). “After Virtue”, p.39, A&C Black
  • Even with limited intelligence, knowing oneself is not as difficult as some say, but to act according to what one has realized about oneself in real life is as difficult as practicing anything else, compared to theory.

    Self  
  • Marriage is not comfortable and harmonious. Rather it is a place of individuation where a person rubs up against oneself and against the partner, bumps up against the person in love and in rejection, and in this fashion learns to know oneself, the world, good and evil, the heights and the depths.

  • I always thought I was Jeanne d'Arc and Bonaparte. How little one knows oneself.

    Quoted in Figaro Litteraire (1958)
  • How can one learn to know oneself? Never by introspection, rather by action.

  • To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

    Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1935-1942”
  • Self-knowledge involves relationship. To know oneself is to study one self in action with another person. Relationship is a process of self evaluation and self revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself - to be is to be related.

    Self  
  • Thus one should know oneself to be of the nature of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss[Sat-Chit-Ananda].

  • One is always in the dark about one's own personality. One needs others to get to know oneself.

  • To know oneself means, among other things, to know oneself qua non-sage: that is, not as a sophos, but as a philo-sophos, someone on the way toward wisdom.

    Mean   Way  
    "La Philosophie comme manière de vivre: Entretiens avec Jeannie Carlier et Arnold I. Davidson" by Pierre Hadot, Jeannie Carlier, Arnold I. Davidson, Paris: Albin Michel, translated by Michael Chase, (p. 90), 2001.
  • Insight occurs when, and to the degree that, one knows oneself.

  • There's this idea that artists are free and that means that we can do whatever we want to do. And it's very important to engage with this idea, just as human beings, that we are free to do what we wanna do. So the real question becomes, then, what do we wanna do? And as one gets to know oneself, one finds that there are things that return again and again that you wanna do.

    Mean  
    Interview with Ross Simonini, www.believermag.com. November 2013.
  • It is truly strange how long it takes to get to know oneself. I am now sixty two years old, yet just one moment ago I realised that I absolutely love lightly toasted bread. Simultaneously, I also realised that I loathe bread when it is heavily toasted. For almost sixty years, and quite unconsciously, I have been experiencing inner joy or total despair at my relationship with grilled bread.

  • The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.

  • One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

    Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.15, Courier Corporation
  • Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems.

    Running  
  • Is it true that one travels in order to know mankind? It is easier to get to know other people at home, but abroad one gets to know oneself.

  • Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

  • To know oneself is the first step toward making flow a part of one's entire life. But just as there is no free lunch in the material economy, nothing comes free in the psychic one. If one is not willing to invest psychic energy in the internal reality of consciousness, and instead squanders it in chasing external rewards, one loses mastery of one's life, and ends up becoming a puppet of circumstances.

    Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). “Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning”, p.143, Penguin
  • Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

    Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1935-1942”
  • Life is a constant challenge to know oneself.

  • In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.

    Saint Basil (2010). “Exegetic Homilies (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 46)”, p.147, CUA Press
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