Pierre Charron Quotes

I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.

God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

We have so committed ourselves in different ways that we have hardly any time for self-reflection, to observe, to study.

Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.

I try to say something about the human condition whenever I can when I'm lucky.

Know thyself.

It's very important for people to know what gives them meaning. But it's hard for people to figure out if you're not connecting with yourself and taking the time to just be introspective and daydream.

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. . . . God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

whatever our ignorance left to itself, and whatever the wounds that other human beings are, we ought to study ourselves with a sort of devotion.

To 'know Thyself' is considered quite an accomplishment.

The purpose of studying Buddhism is not to study Buddhism, but to study ourselves. That is why we have teaching. But the teaching is not ourselves. It is some explanation of ourselves. To study the teaching is to know yourselves. That is why we do not ever attach to the teaching, or to the teacher. The moment you meet a teacher you should leave the teacher, and you should be independent. You want a teacher so that you can be independent. So you study yourselves. You have the teacher for yourselves, not for the teacher.

If man should commence by studying himself, he would see how impossible it is to go further.

Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world

Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone

To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self.

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

The real preparation for education is the study of one's self.

Everything is a subject; the subject is yourself. It is within yourself that you must look and not around you... The greatest happiness is to reveal it to others, to study oneself, to paint oneself continually in [one's] work.

The knowledge of self is the most important thing, because how are you going to know God if you don't know yourself? How are you going to know anything if you don't know yourself?

In solitude, where we are least alone.

If one cannot get along without a mirror, even in shaving oneself, how can one reconstruct oneself or one's life, without seeing oneself in the "mirror" of literature?

When I look in the mirror, I see an ever-unfolding process.

Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself.

All knowledge, is ultimately, self knowledge.