Mastodawn

We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil. And it occurs to me that evil must constantly re-spawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is.

John Steinbeck (1902-1968) American writer
East of Eden, ch. 34 (1952)

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Steinbeck, John - East of Eden, ch. 34 (1952) | WIST Quotations

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Lapwing May 5

After many years of using the internet, it would be interesting to get my hands on one of the digital profiles that have been generated about me. I have a feeling the algorithms know me better than I know myself.😒
#privacy #digitalprivacy #algorithms #databroker #surveillancecapitalism #knowthyself #techethics #privacymatters #bigdata #AI #digitalfootprint

MoribundMurdoch Apr 25

Many people work on their routines. Too few audit themselves. We at r/CuratedSelf put emphasis on the latter.
We're a Pygmalion Effect-exploiting community hoping to popularize honest reflection: on how we think, how we look, how we're perceived, and who we're actually becoming.

#CuratedSelf #KnowThyself #SelfAudit

https://www.reddit.com/r/CuratedSelf/

WIST Quotations Apr 5

A quotation from Proust

In reality, every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer’s work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader so he can discern what he might never have seen in himself without this book. The reader’s recognition in himself of what the book says is the proof of the book’s truth.

[En réalité, chaque lecteur est quand il lit le propre lecteur de soi-même. L'ouvrage de l'écrivain n'est qu'une espèce d’instrument optique qu'il offre au lecteur afin de lui permettre de discerner ce que sans ce livre il n’eût peut-être pas vu en soi-même. La reconnaissance en soi-même, par le lecteur, de ce que dit le livre, est la preuve de la vérité de celui-ci.]

Marcel Proust (1871-1922) French author
Le Temps Retrouvé [Time Regained], ch. 22 (1927) [tr. Moncrieff/Kilmartin]

More about this quote: wist.info/proust-marcel/83203/

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Proust, Marcel - Le Temps Retrouvé [Time Regained], ch. 22 (1926) [tr. Moncrieff/Kilmartin] | WIST Quotations

In reality, every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader so he can discern what he might never have seen in himself without this book. The reader's recognition in himself of what the…

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officerripley Feb 23

THEM: You're not THAT poor. Why don't you stop thrifting & buy better quality clothes?

ME: Oh, yeah, so then I'll just look like a RICH slob; no thanks.

#KnowThyself

Quick Quotes Feb 17

“Everybody who flashed the signs of loyalty he took to be loyal. Everybody who flashed the signs of intelligence he took to be intelligent. And so he had failed to see into his daughter, failed to see into his wife, failed to see into his one and only mistress—probably had never even begun to see into himself.”
― Philip Roth

#Bot #Quote #Insight #Intelligence #KnowThyself #Loyalty #SocialIntelligence

Coach Sankhavaram ®Dec 28

#KnowThyself

https://inaniludibrio.com/2024/03/02/know-thyself-usians/

#American #history

Know thyself, USians

The American Way ™ and the American Dream™ were by-products of geopolitical realities.

Inani Ludibrio

Stravne_18 Dec 6, 2025

Socrates said 'Know thyself.' I tried; turns out I'm just an indecisive organism that craves carbs and sleep. Maybe ignorance was bliss.
#Socrates #KnowThyself #PhilosophyHumor #philospohy