Without self knowledge, without
Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave. G. I. Gurdjieff
Discovering Self
Tell me who you
Tell me who you walk with, and I’ll tell you who you are. Esmeralda Santiago
There is no satisfaction
There is no satisfaction that can compare with looking back across the years and finding you’ve grown in self-control, judgment, generosity, and unselfishness. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
There are things which
There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind. Fyodor Dostoevsky
One\’s own self is
One’s own self is well hidden from one’s own self; of all mines of treasure, one’s own is the last to be dug up. Friedrich Nietzsche
I may not have
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. Douglas Adams
Like an old gold-panning
Like an old gold-panning prospector, you must resign yourself to digging up a lot of sand from which you will later patiently wash out a few minute particles of gold ore. Dorothy Bryant
For most men, life
For most men, life is a search for the proper Manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. Clifton Fadiman
Nail me to my
Nail me to my car and I’ll tell you who you are Chris Burden
Tell me who your
Tell me who your enemy is, and I will tell you who you are. Carl Schmitt