Discovery

(211 votes)   No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(171 votes)   Some people say they haven't yet found themselves. But the self is not something one finds; it is something one creates.

Thomas Szasz
1920-, American Psychiatrist

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(150 votes)   As person abandons worn-out clothes and acquires new ones, so when the body is worn out a new one is acquired by the Self, who lives within.

Bhagavad Gita
c. BC 400-, Sanskrit Poem Incorporated Into the Mahabharata

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(149 votes)   Look into the depths of your own soul and learn first to know yourself, then you will understand why this illness was bound to come upon you and perhaps you will thenceforth avoid falling ill.

Sigmund Freud
1856-1939, Austrian Physician - Founder of Psychoanalysis

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(135 votes)   If we make a couple of discoveries here and there we need not believe things will go on like this for ever. Just as we hit water when we dig in the earth, so we discover the incomprehensible sooner or later.

Georg C. Lichtenberg
1742-1799, German Physicist, Satirist

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(122 votes)   No one is more interesting to anybody than is that mysterious character we all call me, which is why self-liberation, self-actualization, self-transcendence, etc., are the most exciting games in town.

Robert Wilson
1941-, American Theater Director, Designer

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(116 votes)   Sometimes the best way to figure out who you are is to get to that place where you don't have to be anything else.

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(112 votes)   There comes a time in the seeker's life when he discovers that he is at once the lover and the beloved. The aspiring soul which he embodies is the lover in him. And the transcendental Self which he reveals from within is his Beloved.

Sri Chinmoy

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(97 votes)   The self is only that which it is in the process of becoming.

Kirkegaard

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(93 votes)   The discovery of the North Pole is one of those realities which could not be avoided. It is the wages which human perseverance pays itself when it thinks that something is taking too long. The world needed a discoverer of the North Pole, and in all areas of social activity, merit was less important here than opportunity.

Karl Kraus
1874-1936, Austrian Satirist

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(87 votes)   If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(84 votes)   The way a child discovers the world constantly replicates the way science began. You start to notice what's around you, and you get very curious about how things work. How things interrelate. It's as simple as seeing a bug that intrigues you. You want to know where it goes at night; who its friends are; what it eats.

David Cronenberg
1943-, Canadian Filmmaker

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(82 votes)   What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him? Discovery! To know that you are walking where none others have walked; that you are beholding what human eye has not seen before; that you are breathing a virgin atmosphere. To give birth to an idea, to discover a great thought -- an intellectual nugget, right under the dust of a field that many a brain-plough had gone over before. To find a new planet, to invent a new hinge, to find a way to make the lightning carry your messages. To be the first -- that is the idea.

Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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(76 votes)   What has become clear to you since we last met?

Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

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