self-discovery Quotes

We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.

I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.

We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.

People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.

Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.