561 Quotes About Self-knowledge

You only grow when you are alone.

Without self-knowledge, the god that you seek is the god of illusion; and illusion inevitably brings conflict and sorrow.

...Reason should take on anew the most difficult of all its tasks, namely, that of self-knowledge, and to institute a court of justice, by which reason may secure its rightful claims while dismissing all its groundless pretensions, and this not by mere decrees but according to its own eternal and unchangeable laws; and this court is none other than the critique of pure reason itself.

We must each achieve greater individual consciousness and self-knowledge, and project mindful kindness toward everything and everyone.

Ciò cui mirano sia la scuola che il tè è la crescita della persona. Però, con una importante differenza: a scuola ci si confronta con l'altro, mentre nella cerimonia del tè, ci si confronta con il se stesso di ieri.

Life is self celebrating itself as diverse not to be by itself. The purpose of self is companionship, friendship, love. Love is the meaning of life.

Past, present and future are in reality self spacing itself not to be by itself. The purpose of self is companionship, friendship, love; love so love.

If you don't like your experience of the world, change how the world is experiencing you.

It has always been my contention that an individual who can be relied upon to be himself and to be honest unto himself can be relied upon in every other way.