self-awareness Quotes

I had no portrait, now, but am small, like the wren; and my hair is bold, like the chestnut bur; and my eyes, like the sherry in the glass, that the guest leaves.

I think; therefore I am.

Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.

Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.

They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true.

Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.

You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.

You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.