If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self - himself - he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.
A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.
In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.
Anybody can get lost in themselves.
Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him.
The self thus becomes aware of itself, at least in its practical action, and discovers itself as a cause among other causes and as an object subject to the same laws as other objects.
Man shall find his anchorage in self-recognition.
To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
Believe me, if a man doesn't know death, he doesn't know life.