self-awareness Quotes

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.

The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.

The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities.