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A name pronounced is the recognition of the individual to whom it belongs. He who can pronounce my name aright, he can call me, and is entitled to my love and service.
Henry David Thoreau
Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. This is the first step towards becoming either estimable or agreeable; and until it be taken there is no hope. The sooner the discovery is made the better, as there is more time and power for taking advantage of it. Sometimes the great truth is found out too late to apply to it any effectual remedy. Sometimes it is never found at all; and these form the desperate and inveterate causes of folly, self-conceit, and impertinence.
Lord Melbourne
I is another.
Arthur Rimbaud
Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.
Catherine Drinker Bowen
We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world -- introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably -- that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.
Walter Lippmann
There are people who believe everything is sane and sensible that is done with a solemn face.
G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb
Seriousness is stupidity sent to college.
P. J. O'Rourke
Labels are for filing. Labels are for clothing. Labels are not for people.
Martina Navratilova
If at times I have thought myself unfortunate, it is because of a confusion, an error. I have mistaken myself for someone else... Who am I really? I am the author of The World as Will and Representation, I am the one who has given an answer to the mystery of Being that will occupy the thinkers of future centuries. That is what I am, and who can dispute it in the years of life that still remain for me?Said to Eduard Grisenbach, nearing his deathhttp://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/arthursc.htm
Arthur Schopenhauer, from The To
No orator can top the one who can give good nicknames.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.
LaoTzu
'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.
Ezra Pound
Another cause of your sickness, and the most important: you have forgotten what you are.
Boethius (Anicius Manlius Severi
I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.
Angela Carter
I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested.
Do you want to be power in the world? Then be yourself.
Ralph Waldo Trine
We are growing serious, and let me tell you, that's the next step to being dull.
Joseph Addison
It is part of our pedagogy to teach the operations of thinking, feeling, and willing so that they may be made conscious. For if we do not know the difference between an emotion and a thought, we will know very little. We need to understand the components (of emotions) at work... in order to free their hold.
Mary Caroline Richards
I'm a meathead. I can't help it, man. You've got smart people and you've got dumb people.
Keanu Reeves
He knows the universe and does not know himself.
Jean de La Fontaine
