'Know thyself'

Life experience/ meditation

>>8630104
Read Freud, Marx, and Nietzsche

>>8630119
What will this do?

Soc. Can a man be said, do you think, to know himself who knows his own name and nothing more? or must he not rather set to work precisely like the would-be purchaser of a horse, who certainly does not think that he has got the knowledge he requires until he has discovered whether the beast is tractable or stubborn, strong or weak, quick or slow, and how it stands with the other points, serviceable or the reverse, in reference to the use and purpose of a horse? So, I say, must a man in like manner interrogate his own nature in reference to a man’s requirements, and learn to know his own capacities, must he not?
Euth. Yes, so it strikes me: he who knows not his own ability knows not himself.
Soc. And this too is plain, is it not: that through self-knowledge men meet with countless blessings, and through ignorance of themselves with many evils? Because, the man who knows himself knows what is advantageous to himself; he discerns the limits of his powers, and by doing what he knows, he provides himself with what he needs and so does well; or, conversely, by holding aloof from what he knows not, he avoids mistakes and thereby mishaps. And having now a test to gauge other human beings he uses their need as a stepping-stone to provide himself with good and to avoid evil. Whereas he who does not know himself, but is mistaken as to his own capacity, is in like predicament to the rest of mankind and all human matters else; he neither knows what he wants, nor what he is doing, nor the people whom he deals with; and being all abroad in these respects, he misses what is good and becomes involved in what is ill.

>>8630122
Make you realize what your desires, wants, morals, and self are. And why

>>8630133
Can someone explain this in plain English? I apologise.

The truth at the end is that it's nothing like what you thought it was.

>>8630133
Based Socrates

by eliminating all mind stimuli. thus, the mind will have itself as its own object and the rest is profit.

>implying knowledge
>implying self

why did the plebs became philosophers in greece?

>>8630322
Stirnerfags need not apply.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zS1UV3hlvkE

Relevant part starts at 2:30.