Quotes About Self-awareness

Yes, I'm shallow, I don't mind admitting it. Perhaps I should admit that there's no end to the depths of my shallowness.

People think me a sort of Florence Nightingale, but I have no heroic qualities. I simply don't feel very much.

I may be wicked, but I'm not bad.

When you hate yourself, you don't neglect your responsibilities. When you hate yourself, you never forget what you did

If we look straight and deep into a chimpanzee's eyes, an intelligent self-assured personality looks back at us. If they are animals, what must we be?

Emotions often know better than we do what is good for us, even though not everyone is prepared to listen.

Primates arouse a certain nervousness because they show us ourselves in a brutally honest light, reminding us,.....that we are mere 'naked apes.

Feelings happen when emotions bubble to the surface so that we become aware of them. When we are conscious of our emotions, we are able to express them in words and make others aware of them:

Language-trained apes often give the impression that they regard themselves as almost human, such as when, while sorting pictures of humans from those of other animals, they put their own portrait on the human pile. They obviously sympathize with the people that surround them: they want to fit in, and to be like them.

Below I describe two examples, one concerning self-awareness and the other culture, both concepts that, whenever mentioned in relation to animals, still send some scholars through the roof. Armchair

We know our own inner states imperfectly and often mislead both ourselves and those around us. We're masters of fake happiness, suppressed fear, and misguided love.

Oh my body, make of me a man who always questions!

ô mon corps, fait toujours de moi un homme qui s'interroge.

It is the white man who creates the Negro. But it is the negro who creates negritude.

What have I in common with Jews? I have almost nothing in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one's own self.

Your knowledge belongs to your spirit. Your wealth belongs to your body.

I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.

I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.

It's like learning a language you can't speak a language fluently until you find out who you are in that language, and that has as much to do with your body as it does with vocabulary and grammar.

The work involved in exploring your own nature, identifying weaknesses in your character, and then working to overcome them can be difficult and even painful. But as with all transformative change, the outcomes can more than compensate for the work of achieving them. You may be the only person in your life who is unaware of the shortcomings in your character.

Little by little we human beings are confronted with situations that give us more and more clues that we are not perfect.

There's no "should" or "should not" when it comes to having feelings. They're part of who we are and their origins are beyond our control. When we can believe that, we may find it easier to make constructive choices about what to do with those feelings.