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“I found power in accepting the truth of who I am. It may not be a truth that others can accept, but I cannot live any other way. How would it be to live a lie every minute of your life.”
“I call that man awake who, with conscious knowledge and understanding, can perceive the deep unreasoning powers in his soul, his whole innermost strength, desire and weakness, and knows how to reck...”
“Ask not of things to shed their veils. Unveil yourselves, and things will be unveiled.”
“My ignorance is essential. I do not write what I know but what I need to know.”
“No one knows more about the way you think than you do.”
“I wanted to laugh. Or maybe get mad. Or maybe shrug at how strange everyone was, especially me.”
“It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.”
“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.”
“Knowledge of what you love somehow comes to you; you dont have to read nor analyze nor study. If you love a thing enough, knowledge of it seeps into you, with particulars more real than any chart c...”
“He has to come to it on his own.”
“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...”
“The curve of mans knowledge of himself ascends until the 17th century, declines gradually afterwards, in this century it finally plummets”
“I want to know who I am before it is too latebefore I am no longer the same personbefore I become someone different. Although there are days when this seems a furious race against time, there are o...”
“Our spirits rose after a few beers, all that lay between us during the day, the silences that could develop from nowhere, the irritation that could set in, the sudden inability to find areas of com...”
“Life so far seemed like a kind of dance to him, and he was pleased to discover that he was pretty good at it. Lf there was something hollow underneath it all, a well of fear that sometimes seemed t...”
“At the end of your life there will be many people you won't be acquainted with.Make sure you are not among them.”
“Ignorance of ourselves must be folly.”
“To know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks.”
“Recognizing who you are is not the subtext of a life. It's the main point.”
