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>Know thyself and do thy job
-Montaigne paraphrasing Socrates/Plato
>"Why Francoise, he doesn't know himself. It's his nerves."
>"There is no happiness like the transition one realizes after finally knowing who they are."
-Proust, Swann's Way (The latter quote is a paraphrase, and if anyone knows the actual quote pls let me know).
>"This above all to thine own self be true."
-Shakespeare (Polonius, but still), Hamlet
>One cannot be a good lover unless one knows oneself
-Ovid
The stoics have their say in it too, as do many others. What does it mean to know oneself? How does one know oneself?
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If you know how to spell your name then you know yourself.
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It is a trope but it has never been proven
(like the hair by the way)
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I look at it like this: in the history of all of existence you got dealt your one. Every flaw and every positive is yours only to own and you have to own them.
Delusion is the gatekeeper of dissatisfaction, recognise your strengths and weaknesses with the true scrutiny of truth and you'll have achieved self actualisation.
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>>9743886
Is that a man
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>>9743936
hopefully.
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>>9743886
>Know thyself? If I knew myself, I'd run away
>the call to "know oneself" always seemed suspect to me, as a ruse of secretly conspiring priests, who want to confuse man through impossible tasks to stop him from engaging with the outside world through false introspection
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>>9744070
Damn he pwned those brainlets above
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