Quote of the Day (Simone de Beauvoir, on Self-Knowledge)

“Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.”—French existentialist philosopher, novelist, and feminist activist Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986), The Second Sex (1949)

Quote of the Day (Matthew Arnold, on Self-Knowledge)

“O air-born voice! long since, severely clear,
A cry like thine in mine own heart I hear:
‘Resolve to be thyself; and know that he,
Who finds himself, loses his misery!’"—English poet-critic Matthew Arnold (1822-1888), “Self-Dependence,” from The Poems of Matthew Arnold, 1840-1867 (1909)

Quote of the Day (Joseph Conrad, on the ‘Grim Shadow of Self-Knowledge’)

“No man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge.” —Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim (1900)