self-awareness Quotes

We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits - and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful.

When you see a good person, think of becoming like him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points.

The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.

Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

I am not a particularly thick-skinned person.

Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, Something is out of tune.