Consciousness and Self-Knowledge

In dreams begins responsibility. 4

After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions, Guides us by vanities.

Let us honor if we can The vertical man Though we value none But the horizontal one.

Turn upward from the desk, when the human engine waits Like a taxi throbbing waiting, I Tiresias, though blind, throbbing between two lives.

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

Was he free? Was he happy? The question is absurd: Had anything been wrong, we should certainly have heard.

I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work … I want to achieve it through not dying.

Man is neither good nor bad; he is born with instincts and abilities.

It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy; it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

Language is the dress of thought.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.

Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul

At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.

Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

Man is not truly one, but truly two.

A reasoning, self-sufficing thing,

Without self-confidence we are as babes in the cradles. And how can we generate this imponderable quality, which is yet so invaluable most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself.

Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Explore your higher latitudes . . . be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, open new channels, not of trade but of thought.

It is better for people to be like the beasts… They should be more intuitive; they should not be too conscious of what they are doing while they are doing it.

A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.