self-knowledge

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Pursue, keep up with, circle round and round your life, as a dog does his master's chaise.  Do what you love.  Know your own bone, gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.

Without self-knowledge, without understand the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave . . . .

The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river?  Yet the river flows on.

It is much more difficult to judge oneself, than to judge others.