A Quote by Michael Novak
To know oneself is to disbelieve utopia.
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It is not only useless, it is harmful, to believe in oneself until one truly knows oneself. And to know oneself means to accept our moments of insanity, of eccentricity, of childishness and blindness.
Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
A utopia cannot, by de?nition, include boredom, but the 'utopia' we are living in is boring.
In a utopia you want to win matches by several goals and by playing a wonderful brand of football. But that's utopia.
The genuine realist, if he is an unbeliever, will always find strength and ability to disbelieve in the miraculous, and if he is confronted with a miracle as an irrefutable fact he would rather disbelieve his own senses than admit the miraculous also.
[To] know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The first product of self-knowledge is humility . . .
To know oneself means, among other things, to know oneself qua non-sage: that is, not as a sophos, but as a philo-sophos, someone on the way toward wisdom.
To engage in a battle, one must know oneself, believe in oneself, and overcome one's own obstacle
To know oneself is to study oneself in action, which is relationship.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
It is difficult to know oneself, but it isn't easy to paint oneself either.
Perhaps the greatest utopia would be if we could all realize that no utopia is possible; no place to run, no place to hide, just take care of business here and now.
To know oneself is not necessarily to improve oneself
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
In any triangle, who is the betrayer, who the unseen rival, and who the humiliated lover? Oneself, oneself, and no one but oneself!
To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it's hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
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