“Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written.”
Source: The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
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“Crisis is the portal to new opportunity.”
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“A magical portal opened inside my mind and conducted me into an astonishing world.”
"Naxos", Ch. 11, p. 96
Report to Greco (1965)
Context: A magical portal opened inside my mind and conducted me into an astonishing world. … Before this moment I had divined but had never known with such positiveness that the world is extremely large and that suffering and toil are the companions and fellow warriors not only of Cretan, but of every man. … that by means of poetry all this suffering and effort could be transformed into dream; no matter how much of the ephemeral existed, poetry could immortalize it by turning it into song.
“Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 42.
“Reform the world within thyself, which is thy proper world.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 199
Thoughts and Glimpses (1916-17)
Source: Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
1840s, Past and Present (1843)
The small god in Ch. 44 : the visitor
The Visitor (2002)