Quotes about Self-awareness

Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.

The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.

What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has or how he is regarded by others.

Why is it that, in spite of all the mirrors in the world, no one really knows what he looks like?

Spinoza says that if a stone which has been projected through the air, had consciousness, it would believe that it was moving of its own free will. I add this only, that the stone would be right. The impulse given it is for the stone what the motive is for me, and what in the case of the stone appears as cohesion, gravitation, rigidity, is in its inner nature the same as that which I recognise in myself as will, and what the stone also, if knowledge were given to it, would recognise as will.

Conscience accompanies every act with the comment: You should act differently, although its true sense is: You could be other than you are.

whoever attributes no merit to himself because he really has none is not modest, but merely honest.

If your abilities are only mediocre, modesty is mere honesty; but if you possess great talents, it is hypocrisy.

But this is all about how very difficult it is at times for people to see who or what they are looking at, particularly when they don't want to.

Integrity is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake your consciousness, just as honesty is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake existence.

A man's spirit is his self. That entity which is his consciousness. To think, to feel, to judge, to act are functions of the ego.

It is foolish to think that we will enter heaven without entering into ourselves.