#thyself

The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer. ↗

— Adam Smith

#money

Yet the Narrator’s quest is not only for his own identity and vocation. He seeks an understanding of art, sexuality and worldly and political affairs: he is a snoop and a voyeur; he comments and classifies; his taxonomic impulse makes the novel appear to be a vast compendium, replete with burrowing wasps and bedsteads, military strategies, stereoscopes, asparagus and aeroplanes. ↗

— Adam A. Watt

#gnothi-seauton #know-thyself #knowledge #proust #art

He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#understanding-others #enlightenment

If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it. ↗

— Democritus

#doing #injustice #suffer #thou #thyself

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#i #knew #know #know thyself #myself

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly. ↗

— Andre Gide

#become #butterfly #caterpillar #development #himself

Compare not thyself with those that have less than thyself, but look on those that have far exceeded thee. ↗

— William Gurnall

#exceeded #far #less #look #than

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself. ↗

— Thomas Browne

#advantage #alone #lose #society #solitude

Help thyself and Heaven will help thee. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

#help #thee #thyself #will

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man. ↗