I know everything except myself

The knowledge of ourselves, therefore, is not only an incitement to seek after God, but likewise a considerable assistance towards finding him.

The goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy.

When people encounter the free market and they recoil or react negatively to it, they’re merely confessing that voluntaryism, trade and negotiation are foreign and threatening to them, which tells you everything about how tragically...

The interdependent couple is the new setting and their knowledge of Self is an ancient treasure.”-Serena Jade

To prove to [her friend, Swedish diplomat Count] Gyllenborg that she was not superficial, Catherine composed an essay about herself, “so that he would see whether I knew myself or not.” The next day, she...

I am my own biggest critic. Before anyone else has criticized me, I have already criticized myself. But for the rest of my life, I am going to be with me and I don’t want...

I’ve learned far too much to know everything.

Try looking into that place where you dare not look! You’ll find me there, staring out at you!

The idea of original sin–of guilt with no possibility of innocence, no freedom of choice, no alternatives–inherently militates against self-esteem. The very notion of guilt without volition or responsibility is an assault on reason as...

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Excuses are a promise of repetition.

No one knows more about the way you think than you do.

Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It’s the sure-footedness that comes with...

If he stays inside himself, if he is contained within his nature as he is participant in the larger force, he will be able to listen, and his hearing through himself will give him secrets...

Some days I tell myself that my mission is to say something about the art and sometimes the bliss of limitation. And the legibility of landscape. Other days are more dismal. As if I were...

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

Ask not of things to shed their veils. Unveil yourselves, and things will be unveiled.

When people have invested their identities into clichés, the only counter argument they have is ‘being offended’.

How was I to be a scientist, father Lion?’ Science is knowing. What could I have known? Others always did the knowing, knew what was in me, what should come out of me, what was...

Our inner wisdom is persistent, but quiet. It will always whisper, but it will never stop knocking at your door.

We must each achieve greater individual consciousness and self-knowledge, and project mindful kindness toward everything and everyone.

I believe in knowing who you are but without limiting yourself to your own expectation of who you are.

I will come to you, my friend, when I no longer need you. Then you will find a palace, not an almshouse.

It is no coincidence that precisely when things started going downhill with the gods, politics gained its bliss-making character. There would be no reason for objecting to this, since the gods, too were not exactly...

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

Distraction serves evil more than any other mental state.

Self-Knowledge is the Jewel of all Knowledge.”-Serena Jade

You differ from a great man in only one respect: the great man was once a very little man, but he developed one important quality: he recognized the smallness and narrowness of his thoughts and...

There is a magnificent, beautiful, wonderful painting in front of you! It is intricate, detailed, a painstaking labor of devotion and love! The colors are like no other, they swim and leap, they trickle and...

Experience teaches effectually, but brutally. It makes us acquainted with all the effects of an action, by causing us to feel them; and we cannot fail to finish by knowing that fire burns, if we...

problem”, whatever you perceive your problem or problems to be, is not the key to happiness.

One of the great self-deceptions–and one of the great foolishnesses–is to tell yourself, Only I will know. Only you will know that you are a liar; only you will know you deal unethically with people...

Much of the work of midlife is to tell the difference between those who are dealing with their issues through you and those who are really dealing with you.

What we do not confront, we inhabit.What we do not reject, we accept.What we do not fight, we become.

Learn whom God has ordered you to be, and in what part of human affairs you have been placed.

Language is something you inherit, it’s never just you doing the talking, which helps when you’re pretending.

Some girls have to go to college to discover what they are good at; some are born doing what they must without even truly knowing why. I felt a hole in my heart shaped like...

With or without our knowledge, we are all alchemists.

G. I. Gurdieff, “Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson”So-and-so-and-so-must-be; do-not-do-what-must-not-be. Mullah’s favorite saying. p. 598

How much more infinite a sea is man? Be not so childish as to measure him from head to foot and think you have found his borders.

Lies don’t make you happy. They just make you lie about being happy.

Je sais qu’on ne peut jamais se connaître, mais seulement se raconter.

To persevere is one thing, but to push on ignoring your intuition is something quite different. Self-awareness is the practice of learning the difference.

I found power in accepting the truth of who I am. It may not be a truth that others can accept, but I cannot live any other way. How would it be to live a...

One is either an artist or one is not. It is not something one becomes. It is something that one is from birth. We do not study to be artists. We study to become more...

Understand that when the beast within yousucceeds again in paralyzing into unendingincompletion whatever you again had the temerity totry to makeits triumph is made sweeter by confirmation of itsrectitude. It knows that it aloneknows you.

What we say about ourselves is always a form of fiction.

Liberty is no less a blessing because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.

Irrational expectations are at the root of most human suffering.