"Know thyself' was written over the portal..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde
Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written.
More by Oscar Wilde
“Love is fed by the imagination, by which we become wiser than we know, better than we feel, nobler than we are: by which we can see life as a whole, by which and by which alone we can understand others in their real and their ideal relation. Only what is fine, and finely conceived can feed love. But anything will feed hate.”
“And now, I am dying beyond my means. (Said while sipping champagne on his deathbed.)”
“I made your sorrow mine also, that you might have help in bearing it.”
More on Self Discovery
“Nobody else knows your reason for being. You do. Your bliss guides you to it. When you follow your bliss, when you follow your path to joy, your conversation is of joy, your feelings are of joy - you're right on the path of that which you intended when you came forth into this physical body.”
“The more real you get, the more unreal everything else is.”
“You gotta keep trying to find your niche and trying to fit into whatever slot that's left for you or to make one of your own.”
More on Identity
“So far for humans it has been the case that ego develops and then humans are stuck with it for the rest of their lives.”
“Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life.”
“I am a communist and my painting is a communist painting. But if I were a shoemaker, Royalist or Communist or anything else, I would not necessarily hammer my shoes in any special way to show my politics.”