"Every intelligent individual wants to know what..." - Quote by Alan Watts
Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
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“Where do I begin and end in space? I have relations to the sun and air which are just as vital parts of my existence as my heart.”
“Running away from fear is fear; fighting pain is pain; trying to be brave is being scared”
“In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.”
More on Self Knowledge
“In knowing ourselves to be unique, we possess the capacity for becoming conscious of the infinite. But only then!”
“Man... knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfactions instruct him concerning himself, teach him what to seek and what to avoid. For the rest, man is a confused creature; he knows not whence he comes or whither he goes, he knows little of the world, and above all, he knows little of himself.”
“There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.”