Luc de Clapiers Quotes

Knowing yourself has to always come from within. The outside can inspire or guide you, but knowing has to come from within you.

If you cannot find the truth within yourself, where else do you expect to find it?

Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.

Nothing said to us, nothing we can learn from others, reaches us so deep as that which we find in ourselves.

Poor soul, she always knew everything about her neighbors, but she never was very well acquainted with herself.

Know thyself, for through thyself only thou canst know God.

People who do not understand themselves have a craving for understanding — a thing which is rather surmised and never spoken than known and clothed in words.

Self-knowledge is the only basis of true knowledge.

If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge.

The height of all philosophy is to know thyself; and the end of this knowledge is to know God.

He whose book of the heart has been opened needs no other books.

To know yourself you need not go to any book, to any priest, to any psychologist. The whole treasure is within yourself.

We must remember that knowledge of one’s own deep nature is also simultaneously knowledge of human nature in general.

Nearly all the wisdom we possess, that is to say, true and sound wisdom, consists of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves.

The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end - you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.

Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.

He who knows himself is enlightened.

In my book, I was trying to get into my own soul.

We write about ourselves because we know about ourselves.

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

Study what thou art Whereof thou art a part What thou knowest of this art This is really what thou art. All that is without thee also is within.

The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.

The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?