desires, most people believe that we can know them by an immediate
self-knowledge which does not depend upon observation of our actions.
Between his
self-knowledge, which was considerable, and his vanity, which was immense, he had created a strange hybrid animal, and called it by his own name.
Norris assisted to form her nieces' minds; and it is not very wonderful that, with all their promising talents and early information, they should be entirely deficient in the less common acquirements of
self-knowledge, generosity and humility.
A hard, cold man, thus unfortunately situated, seldom or never looking inward, and resolutely taking his idea of himself from what purports to be his image as reflected in the mirror of public opinion, can scarcely arrive at true
self-knowledge, except through loss of property and reputation.
A mind might ponder its thought for ages and not gain so much
self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach it in a day.
"The mighty heaven," said Proclus, "exhibits, in its transfigurations, clear images of the splendor of intellectual perceptions; being moved in conjunction with the unapparent periods of intellectual natures." Therefore science always goes abreast with the just elevation of the man, keeping step with religion and metaphysics; or the state of science is an index of our
self-knowledge. Since everything in nature answers to a moral power, if any phenomenon remains brute and dark it is that the corresponding faculty in the observer is not yet active.
She disliked confidences, for they might lead to
self-knowledge and to that king of terrors--Light.
Its central theme, we soon realize, is not even Russia but the problem of
self-knowledge. The great tragedy is that the country is illegible even to itself.
It is probable that our commonly accepted ideas about
self-knowledge,
Exploring how the literary form of the novel reorients philosophy toward the meaning of existence, Ong shows that for Kierkegaard, Sartre, and Beauvoir, the form of the novel in its classic phase yields the conditions for reconceptualizing the nature of
self-knowledge, freedom, and the world.
"Art therapy will help bring mental harmony and serve as a tool of self-expression and
self-knowledge," the statement said.
In the Charmides, Charmides and Critias define sophrosyne or temperance (2) successively as quietness, modesty, doing your own work,
self-knowledge, the knowledge of knowledge, and knowledge of the good.