Quotes About Self-awareness

Know thyself? If I knew myself, I'd run away.

We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection--which we have ourselves created.

Was ich weiß, kann jeder wissen. Mein Herz hab' ich allein.

Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege.

Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.

To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.

Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.

We look back on our life as a thing of broken pieces, because our mistakes and failures are always the first to strike us, and outweigh in our imagination what we have accomplished and attained.

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.

If there is confusion in your head and in your heart, what more do you want! A man who no longer loves and no longer errs should have himself buried straight away.

There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.

I could be living the best and happiest of lives if only I were not a fool.

Truth is contrary to our nature, not so error, and this for a very simple reason: truth demands that we should recognize ourselves as limited, error flatters us that, in one way or another, we are unlimited.

If we put ourselves in the place of other people, the jealousy and hatred we so often feel about them would disappear, and if we put others in our place, pride and conceit would greatly diminish.

We so frequently feel that we are lacking in many qualities which another person apparently possesses; and then we furnish such a person with everything we oirselves possess and witj a certain idealistic complacemny in addition. And in this fashion a Happy Being is finished to perfection--the creature of our imagination.

Ein guter Mensch in seinem dunklen Drange Ist sich des rechten Weges wohl bewusst.

Da steh ich nun, ich armer Tor, und bin so klug als wie zuvor.

You are aware of only one unrest; Oh, never learn to know the other! Two souls, alas, are dwelling in my breast, And one is striving to forsake its brother.

It is a great error to take oneself for more than one is, or for less than one is worth.

Ah, lo que yo sé, lo puede saber cualquiera: mi corazón lo tengo yo solamente.

No one is more of a slave than he who thinks himself free without being so.

Todo nos hace falta cuando nos faltamos a nosotros mismos

From youth, I have been accustomed to direct the eyes of my spirit inwards rather than outwards; and hence it is very natural, that, to a certain extent, I should be acquainted with man, while of men I have not the smallest knowledge.

A man who cannot control his temper is not very likely to control his passions, and no matter what his pretensions in religion, he moves in daily life very close to the animal plane.