Quotes About Self-awareness

Our unconscious, then, does not believe in its own death; it behaves as if it were immortal. It knows nothing that is negative; in it contradictories coincide. This may be the secret of heroism.

Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.

No literature is sound, no philosophy of action workable, if it doesn't take a hard look at itself.

What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.

The question to everyone's answer is usually asked from within.

You've got a degree in philosophy; so you think you're cleverer than me. But I'm not just some drama queen. Cause it's where you're at, not where you've been.

Materialism is the philosophy of the subject who forgets to take account of himself.

There is no external solution to the problem of insecurity.

When I break any of the chains that bind me I feel that I make myself smaller.

You may have a beautiful philosophy, you may have lofty ideals, but what you will do with your philosophy and ideals is dependent entirely upon what you are inside yourself

Who you are isn't tied solely to what you say, even though it may feel that way to you now.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

I'm a layperson. I barely got out of high school. I have no business telling people what to do or my big philosophy on life. I'm certainly not going to write any sort of memoir.

If the rest of your brain were conscious, it would probably regard you as the pointy-haired boss from Dilbert

Selfness is an essential fact of life. The thought of nonselfness, precise sameness is terrifying.

The basic philosophy of stoicism is that you have nothing real external to your own consciousness, that the only thing real is in fact your consciousness.

Never forget who you are, little star.

Time to go inward would you believe that I'm afraid to stare down the barrel of choices I have made.

Without ego I don't know how identity works, I don't know... I need to sit down and re-read some philosophy or something.

I begin to perceive that I am a woman. What that is, heaven knows... the philosophy is yet to be written, there is a world to be explored.

The falsest of all philosophies is that which, under the pretext of delivering men from the embarrassment of their passions, counsels idleness and the abandonment and neglect of themselves.

To lie to yourself, and thereby to everyone else.

The emphasis in tantra is not what you find yourself doing, it's on meditation.

Socrates: This man, on one hand, believes that he knows something, while not knowing [anything]. On the other hand, I – equally ignorant – do not believe [that I know anything].