{"quotes":[{"text":"In the perspective of our species, life has favored humanity as a whole by promoting as much wealth of variety and options as possible, and has distributed everything using the four winds. Life has given mankind everything it has, without segregation and without consideration of which characteristic or quality best suits the situations or the periods. Only by having the totality of human characteristics and options can we hope to deal with all periods to come.Our collective is our key to survival and well-being.","author":"Haroutioun Bochnakian","tags":["humanism","inspirational","perspective","self-knowledge","survival"],"id":260,"author_id":"Haroutioun+Bochnakian"},{"text":"Writing allows a person to explore both physical reality and the internal workings of their mind. Writing places us in touch with our unconsciousness. Writing purposefully, applying the white heat of self-examination, can act to transform oneself. Writing allows a person with sufficient resolve to anneal their basic constitution, make their mind more flexible.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["know-thyself","self-determination","self-determination","self-development","self-development","self-examination","self-exploration","self-knowing","self-knowledge","self-knowledge","transformation","transformation","writers","writers-on-thinking","writers-on-writing","writing","writing-life"],"id":4046,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"Writing allows a person to explore both physical reality and the internal workings of their mind. Writing places us in touch with our unconsciousness. Writing purposefully, applying the white heat of self-examination, can act to transform oneself. Writing allows a person with sufficient resolve to anneal their basic constitution, make their mind more flexible.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["know-thyself","self-determination","self-determination","self-development","self-development","self-examination","self-exploration","self-knowing","self-knowledge","self-knowledge","transformation","transformation","writers","writers-on-thinking","writers-on-writing","writing","writing-life"],"id":4046,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"...Reason should take on anew the most difficult of all its tasks, namely, that of self-knowledge, and to institute a court of justice, by which reason may secure its rightful claims while dismissing all its groundless pretensions, and this not by mere decrees but according to its own eternal and unchangeable laws; and this court is none other than the critique of pure reason itself.","author":"Immanuel Kant","tags":["critique","illusion","knowledge","limits","reason","self-knowledge"],"id":4072,"author_id":"Immanuel+Kant"},{"text":"Whoever wants the 'I' to yield up its mysterious and tremendous secret must stop it from looking perpetually in the mirror, must stop the little ego's fascination with its own image.","author":"Paul Brunton","tags":["ego","self-knowledge","wisdom"],"id":8318,"author_id":"Paul+Brunton"},{"text":"Ignorance’ (absence of Self-Knowledge) creates vibrations (causes) and ‘Knowledge’ (Self-Knowledge) stops these vibrations.","author":"Dada Bhagwan","tags":["cause","effect","ignorance","karma","knowledge","knowledge-of-the-self","self-knowledge","spiritual","spiritual"],"id":10438,"author_id":"Dada+Bhagwan"},{"text":"No matter how strange things get, know that with every breath, you are becoming that which you have always been.","author":"Eric Micha'el Leventhal","tags":["awareness","becoming","being","breath","consciousness","enlightenment","identity","know-thyself","meditation","self-awareness","self-knowledge","self-love","spirituality","transformation","trust"],"id":11192,"author_id":"Eric+Micha%27el+Leventhal"},{"text":"I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.","author":"Socrates","tags":["self-awareness","self-knowledge"],"id":11402,"author_id":"Socrates"},{"text":"G. I. Gurdieff, 'Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson'So-and-so-and-so-must-be; do-not-do-what-must-not-be. Mullah's favorite saying. P. 598.","author":"Gurdieff","tags":["attitude-towards-life","being","humor","inspirational","observation","outlook","self","self-knowledge"],"id":13358,"author_id":"Gurdieff"},{"text":"Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.But your ears thirst for the sound of your heart's knowledge.You would know in words that which you have always known in thought.You would touch with your fingers the naked body of your dreams.","author":"Kahlil Gibran","tags":["enlightenment","self-knowledge","the-heart","understanding","wisdom"],"id":14817,"author_id":"Kahlil+Gibran"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":407,"pages":41,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}