Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.
Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself.
A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
When an inner situation is not made conscious, it happens outside, as fate.
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
Projections change the world into the replica of one's own unknown face.
I had to recognize that I am only the expression and symbol of the soul.
An unexamined life is not worth living.
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
To find yourself, think for yourself.
If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.
Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
I did it for me. I liked it. I was good at it. And I was really... I was alive.
We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
This above all: to thine own self be true.
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
The things that we love tell us what we are.
The largest part of what we call personality is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
