Thyself Quotes - Page 8

• Over the entrance to the temple at Delphi was a famous inscription: KNOW THYSELF! It reminded visitors that man must never believe himself to be more than mortal - and that no man can escape his destiny.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Believe, Destiny, Men

  Jostein Gaarder (2010). “Sophie's World”, p.55, Hachette UK

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• Now thyself is more important than “Know thyself.

  Mel Brooks

  Important, Know Thyself, Knows

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• There is a religious principle: Love thy neighbour as thyself. But it's also an economic asset. If you've got a neighbour, you've got help, and this implies another limit. If you want to have neighbours, you can't have a limitless growth economy. You have to prefer to have a neighbour rather than to own your neighbour farm.

  Wendell Berry

  Religious, Growth, Want

  "Nature as an Ally: An Interview with Wendell Berry". Interview with Sarah Leonard, ourworld.unu.edu. July 5, 2012.

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• Make us eternal truths receive,
  And practice all that we believe:
  Give us thyself, that we may see
  The Father and the Son, by thee.

  Charlemagne

  God, Faith, Father

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• Would thou confound thy enemy, be good thyself.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Enemy, Be Good

  Benjamin Franklin (1945). “A Benjamin Franklin Reader”

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• If thou takest virtue for the rule of life, and valuest thyself upon acting in all things comfortably thereto, thou wilt have no cause to envy lords and princes; for blood is inherited, but virtue is common property, and may be acquired by all; it has, moreover, an intrinsic worth, which blood has not.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Blood, Envy, Acting

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• Depart from the highway, and transplant thyself in some enclosed ground; for it is hard for a tree that stands by the wayside to keep her fruit till it be ripe.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Retirement, Tree, Fruit

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• Know thyself; this is the great object.

  Seneca the Younger

  Know Thyself, Objects, Knows

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• When thou hast profited so much that thou respectest even thyself, thou mayst let go thy tutor.

  Seneca the Younger

  Letting Go, Tutor

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• Live for thy neighbor if thou wouldst live for thyself.

  Seneca the Younger

  Neighbor, Ifs

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• If you would learn to speak all tongues and conform to the customs of all nations, if you would travel farther than all travellers, be naturalized in all climes, and cause the Sphinx to dash her head against a stone, even obey the precept of the old philosopher, and Explore thyself. Herein are demanded the eye and the nerve. Only the defeated and deserters go to the wars, cowards that run away and enlist.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Running, War, Eye

  Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden: 150th Anniversary Illustrated Edition of the American Classic”, p.313, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Adorn thyself with simplicity and with indifference towards the things which lie between virtue and vice. Love mankind. Follow God. The poet says that Law rules all. And it is enough to
  remember that law rules all.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Lying, Law, Simplicity

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.76, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• Help thyself: then everyone will help thee too. Principle of Christian charity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Christian, Principles, Charity

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2004). “Why I am So Wise”, p.72, Penguin UK

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• Love yourself. KNOW thyself. And be mindful of your thoughts.

  RuPaul

  Love You, Know Thyself, Knows

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• 'Physician, heal thyself' is more true in matters religious than mundane.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Religious, Religion, Physicians

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.186, Tara Publishing

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• Let God operate in thee; Hand the work over to Him and do not disquiet thyself as to whether or no He is working with nature or above nature, for His are both nature and grace.

  Meister Eckhart

  Letting Go, Hands, Grace

  Meister Eckhart (1924). “Meister Eckhart”

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• No sickness worse than imagining thyself to be perfect can afflict thy soul.

  Rumi

  Perfect, Soul, Sickness

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• Seat thyself sultanically among the moons of Saturn, and take high abstracted man alone; and he seems a wonder, a grandeur, and a woe. But from that same point, take mankind in mass, and for the most part, they seem a mob of unnecessary duplicates, both contemporary and hereditary.

  Herman Melville

  Men, Moon, Saturn

  Herman Melville (2016). “Moby-Dick: Or, the Whale”, p.373, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Attach thyself to truth; defend justice; rejoice in the beautiful. That which comes to thee with time, time will take away; that which is eternal will remain in thy heart.

  Esaias Tegner

  Beautiful, Truth, Heart

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• Pardon all but thy selfe.
  [Pardon all but thyself.]

  George Herbert

  Pardon

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• When the flesh presents thee with delights, then present thyself with dangers; where the world possesses thee with vain hopes, there possess thyself with true fear; when the devil brings thee oil, bring thou vinegar. The way to be safe is never to be secure.

  Francis Quarles

  Oil, Temptation, Devil

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.94

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• If thou seest anything in thyself which may make thee proud, look a little further and thou shalt find enough to humble thee; if thou be wise, view the peacock's feathers with his feet, and weigh thy best parts with thy imperfections.

  Francis Quarles

  Wise, Humble, Feet

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.81

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• Prize not thyself by what thou hast, but by what thou art; he that values a jewel by her golden frame, or a book by her silver clasps, or a man by his vast estate, errs; if thou art not worth more than the world can make thee, thy Redeemer had a bad pennyworth, or thou an uncurious Redeemer.

  Francis Quarles

  Art, Book, Men

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.100

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• Flatter not thyself in thy faith to God, if thou wantest charity for thy neighbor; and think not thou halt charity for thy neighbor, if thou wantest faith to God; where they are not both together, they are both wanting; they are both dead, if once divided.

  Francis Quarles

  Thinking, Together, Charity

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• Love thy neighbor as thyself.  Because each of us is his own neighbor.

  Karl Kraus

  Neighbor, Love Thy Neighbor

  Karl Kraus, Jonathan McVity (2001). “Dicta and Contradicta”, p.35, University of Illinois Press

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