
“The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.”
No. 8.
Aphorisms (1930)
Es giebt keine Selbstkenntniss als die historische. Niemand weiss was er ist, wer nicht weiss was seine Genossen sind.
“Ideas,” Lucinde and the Fragments, P. Firchow, trans. (1991), § 139
Es giebt keine Selbstkenntniss als die historische. Niemand weiss was er ist, wer nicht weiss was seine Genossen sind.
“The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.”
No. 8.
Aphorisms (1930)
Source: Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
1850s, Judge For Yourselves! 1851 (1876)
Thales, 9.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 1: The Seven Sages