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131 sats \ 3 replies \ @Coinsreporter 19 Dec \ on: Stacker Saloon
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
To know yourself, you have to be able to see yourself objectively. The “you” that knows yourself cannot be the same as the “self” that you know. If you can’t do this, you’re doomed to always just doing and feeling the stuff that you always did and felt. You can’t do anything about it if you’re always in it.
Here's Alexander Pope in An Essay on Man: Epistle II https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44900/an-essay-on-man-epistle-ii
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is Man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great: With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side, With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride, He hangs between; in doubt to act or rest, In doubt to deem himself a God or Beast, In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born but to die, and reasoning but to err; Alike in ignorance, his reason such Whether he thinks too little or too much: Chaos of thought and passion, all confused; Still by himself abused, or disabused; Created half to rise and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled: The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
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20 sats \ 2 replies \ @DesertDave 19 Dec
Best share in the saloon all day. Will anyone pay attention?
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Coinsreporter 19 Dec
Evryone has to pay attention on such stuff someday in his life, be it the last day.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DesertDave 19 Dec
It's always the last day. We never end and we never began. Death is an illusion like the clock on the wall. We go round and round, waiting to touch the ground. Never shall we land in this strange strange land.
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