“To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.”
“To know oneself is to disbelieve in utopia.”
Confession of a Catholic http://books.google.com/books?id=vKUtAAAAMAAJ&q=%22To+know+oneself+is+to+disbelieve+in+utopia%22&pg=PA203#v=onepage (1983)
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Michael Novak 1
American theologian, philosopher, journalist, novelist, and… 1933–2017Related quotes
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trans. Michael Chase (1995), p. 90
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Source: Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
As quoted in The Complete Works of Michael de Montaigne (1877) edited by William Carew Hazlitt, p. 289