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“Know thyself” — a maxim as pernicious as it is odious. A person observing himself would arrest his own development. Any caterpillar who tried to “know himself” would never become a butterfly. – André Gide, Nouvelles Nourritures

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You might say that we use ourselves to discover ourselves. – Judith Hanson Lasater

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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star. – G.K. Chesterton, “The Logic of Elfland,” Orthodoxy, 1908

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A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything. – Samuel Johnson, Boswell, Life of Johnson, 1783

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Truth hurts — not the searching after; the running from! – John Eyberg

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