self-discovery Quotes

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the 'Not Me,' that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, 'Nature.'

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.

There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.