All of the significant battles are waged within the self.
I don't like work but I like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
I've not yet succeeded in obeying the Delphic injunction to know myself, and it seems to me absurd to consider problems about other beings while I am still in ignorance about my own nature.
One must know oneself before knowing anything else. It is only after a man has thus understood himself inwardly and has thus seen his way, that life acquires peace and significance.