Self-knowledge quotes

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

I’ve always felt that if I examine myself too much, I’ll find out what I know and don’t know, and I’ll burst the bubble. I’ve gotten so lucky relying on my animal instincts, I’d rather keep a little bit of the animal alive.

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.

How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.

Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.