Self-knowledge
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“That self-knowledge is the highest aim of philosophical inquiry appears to be generally acknowledged” --Essay on Man, Ernst Cassirer "For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other, of heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I can never catch myself at any time without a perception, and can never observe anything but the perception. When my perceptions are remov’d for any time, as by sound sleep; so long am I insensible of myself, and may truly be said not to exist. (Hume 1739–40/1978: 252)"--A Treatise of Human Nature (1738) by Hume "I am out in the Sahara heading due south with each day of travel less sure of just who I am, where I am going or why."--The Process (1969) by Brion Gysin |
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Self-knowledge may refer to:
- Philosophy of self, Self-knowledge in content list
- Self-knowledge (psychology)
- Self-knowledge (Vedanta), a major process in the teachings of Vedanta
- "Self Knowledge (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)", a poem by Samuel T. Coleridge centering on the Delphic maxim know thyself
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