Quotes About Self-awareness

C?ci dac? diferenÈ›a dintre om È™i animal rezid? în faptul c? animalul nu poate fi decât animal, pe când omul poate fi neom, adic? altceva decât el însuÈ™i - atunci eu sunt un neom.

We must beware of whatever insights we have into ourselves. Our self-knowledge annoys and paralyzes our daimon-this is where we should look for the reason Socrates wrote nothing.

M-am plictisit de orice form? de agitaÅ£ie ÅŸi m-am convins c? toate nepl?cerile în via?? vin din participarea la un grup oarecare.Dac? ÅŸtiam lucrurile acestea demult,ast?zi eram mult mai înaintat.A trage consecinÅ£ele prostiilor altora e cea mai absurd? tragedie ce se poate îndura.

Si l'on pouvait se voir avec les yeux des autres, on disparaîtrait sur-le-champ.

What do you do from morning to night?" "I endure myself.

Look neither ahead nor behind, look into yourself, with neither fear nor regret. No one descends into himself so long as he remains a slave of the past or of the future.

When, getting too used to ourselves, we begin to loathe ourselves, we soon realize that we are worse off, that self-hatred actually strengthens self-attachment.

Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.

A man who survives himself despises himself without acknowledging as much, sometimes without even knowing as much.

It is a great force, and a great fortune, to be able to live without any ambition whatever. I aspire to it, but the very fact of so aspiring still participates in ambition.

Quando non si hanno più illusioni su di sè, non se ne conservano sugli altri.

The book which, after demolishing everything, fails to demolish itself will have exasperated us to no purpose.

Every form of haste, even toward the good, betrays some mental disorder.

no reproach proceeding from men or gods can affect me: I have as good a conscience as if I had never existed.

Educating yourself not to leave traces is a moment-by-momcnt war against yourself, solely to prove that you could, if you chose, become a sage….

no man concerned with his own equilibrium may exceed a certain degree of lucidity and analysis.

Old age is nature's self-criticism.

feeling of being everything and the evidence of being nothing.' I happened across this phrase in my youth, and was overwhelmed by it. Everything I felt in those days, and everything I would feel from then on, was summed up in this extraordinary banal formula, the synthesis of expansion and failure, ecstasy and impasse. Most often it is not in a paradox but in a truism that a revelation appears.

I feel I am free but I know I am not.

The pleasure of slandering yourself greatly exceeds that of being slandered.

The people inside us bears the responsibility for our excesses, our extravagances: what is more plebeian than a sentiment?

The clear-sighted person who understands himself, explains himself, justifies himself, and dominates his action will never make a memorable gesture. Psychology is the hero's grave.

At this precise moment, no reproach proceeding from men or gods can affect me: I have as good a conscience as if I had never existed.

Each time I catch myself assigning some importance to things, I incriminate my mind, I challenge it and suspect it of some weakness, of some depravity.