Consciousness and Self-Knowledge

Thus the theory of description matters most. It is the theory of the word for those For whom the word is the making of the world, The buzzing world and lisping firmament. It is a world of words to the end of it, In which nothing solid is its solid self.

The friends that have it I do wrong When ever I remake a song Should know what issue is at stake, It is myself that I remake.

Be congruent, be authentic, be your true self.

Compare yourself to those who are superior to you, and you’ll find yourself lacking; compare yourself to those who are inferior to you, and you’ll find yourself more than good enough.

O wad some Pow’r the giftie gie us

Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he Who finds himself, loses his misery.

With me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man’s mind which has been developed from the mind of the lower animals, are of any value or at all trustworthy.

‘That was the curious incident,’ remarked Sherlock Holmes.

Created half to rise, and half to fall;

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

The world is everything that is the case.

I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what, in given circumstances, is to be done, and does it.

Why is it that nobody understands me, yet everybody likes me?

Like the man in the fairytale who turned everything he touched into gold, so with me everything is turned into newspaper clamor.

Every man, as to character, is the creature of the age in which he lives. Very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of their times.

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.

I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.

One man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole.

Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are gardeners.

Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.

The difference between the shallowest routineer and the deepest thinker appears, to the latter, trifling; to the former, infinite.

’Tis the mind that makes the body rich.