All ages have said and repeated that one should strive to know one's self.
This is a strange demand which no one up to now has measured up to and,
strictly considered, no one should. With all their study and effort,
people are directed to what is outside, to the world about them,
and they are kept busy coming to know this and to master it to the extent
that their purposes require. . . . How can you come to know yourself?
Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know
right away what you amount to. And what is your duty? Whatever the day calls for.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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