Quotes About Self-discovery

Imagine a man who stands before a mirror; a stone strikes it, and it falls to ruin all in an instant. And the man learns that he is himself, and not the mirrored man he had believed himself to be.

Only in intimate communion with solitude may man find himself. Solitude is good company and my architecture is not for those who fear or shun it.

A man who is ill-adjusted to the world is always on the verge of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the world never finds himself, but gets to be a cabinet minister.

A boy can be two, three, four potential people, but a man is only one. He murders the others.

Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.

Down to earth advice about the path that leads away from the kingdom of the hollow men.

To know nothing about yourself is to be constantly in danger of nothingness, those voids of non-being over which a man walks the tightrope of his life.

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.

If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.

A man's greatest battles are the ones he fights within himself.

All my days have I grown up among the Sages and I have found naught better for a man than silence.

Seek your own Reality, That is what a wise man should do.

I am a man, Jupiter, and each man must invent his own path.

I grew up and still didn't know what it meant to be a man.

A man who is a genius and doesn't know it, probably isn't.

It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.

Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.

For me, it's interesting because I never thought of myself as an action man, but apparently I can do it, so that's good to know.

Man, as man, has never realized himself. The greater part of him, his potential being, has always been submerged. What is history if not the endless story of his repeated failures?

I do see myself settling down, getting married and having kids. But when I think about a family life in the future there's rarely a man involved which is kind of weird.

And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can.

For after years of living in a cage, a lion no longer even believes it is a lion . . . and a man no longer believes he is a man.

Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo.

Love it will not betray you, dismay or enslave you, it will set you free/to be more like the man you were made to be