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Courtroom speech · Speech · Philosophical literature

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Plato, Apology · 399 BC

★ 9.7

Presocratic fragment · Fragment · Philosophical literature

Diogenes Laertius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers

★ 9.3

Treatise · Military treatise

Know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never be defeated.

The Art of War · 475 BC

★ 8.3

Look round the habitable world! how few Know their own good; or knowing it, pursue.

Satires of Juvenal · 1693

★ 7.0

Play · Tragedy (play)

We know what we are but know not what we may be.

William Shakespeare

Hamlet · 1616

★ 6.1

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

Walter Benjamin

One Way Street · 1979

★ 6.0

Film · Crime (film) · Crime

A man's got to know his limitations.

Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan

Magnum Force · 1973

★ 4.6

Film · Drama (film) · Drama

How much can you know about yourself if you've never been in a fight?

Fight Club · 1999

★ 4.0

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be oneself.

Michel de Montaigne

Essays · 1580

★ 3.8

Play · Comedy (play)

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

William Shakespeare

As You Like It · 1616

★ 3.8

I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am.

The Bell Jar · 1963

★ 3.7

Novel · Coming of age story

I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.

Demian · 1919

★ 3.5

Psychological literature

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls.

1944

★ 3.5

Art is a way of recognizing oneself, which is why it will always be modern.

Louise Bourgeois

★ 3.5

There is no human being on earth who is capable of declaring who he is, with certainty. No one knows what he has come to this world to do, to what his acts, feelings, ideas correspond, or what his real name is, his imperishable Name in the registry of Light.

1912

★ 3.4

Film · Animation (film) · Musical (film) · Animation · Musical

Remember who you are.

The Lion King · 1994

★ 2.1

Knowing who you are is good for one generation only.

Flannery O'Connor

1961

★ 2.0

It's good to be just plain happy; it's a little better to know that you're happy; but to understand that you're happy and to know why and how... And still be happy, be happy in the being and the knowing, well that is beyond happiness, that is bliss.

1941

★ 1.8

Philosophical literature · Religious literature

He who knows others is wise; He who knows himself is enlightened.

Tao Te Ching · 400 BC

★ 1.6

Presocratic fragment · Fragment · Philosophical literature

Everyone has the potential for self-knowledge and sound thinking.

★ 1.3

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