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The ancient Greek saying "Know thyself" (gnothi sauton) remains the ultimate and highest definition of any sincere search for truth.
Swami Kriyananda: The Real Issue: Reconciling Science With Experience Swami Kriyananda 2010
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The ancient Greek saying "Know thyself" (gnothi sauton) remains the ultimate and highest definition of any sincere search for truth.
Swami Kriyananda: The Real Issue: Reconciling Science With Experience 2010
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This is a difficulty which is thwarted at the very outset by gnothi sauton — know thyself.
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It will be in vain for you to say, "Fronti nulla fides;" "[Greek: gnothi seauton]" before you get there, or nobody will know you.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 Various
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Greeks, we come upon thinkers who can distinctly reflect on human conduct, and can put in practice the gnothi seauton (know thyself), so that henceforth the method of ethics is secured for all times, with indefinite scope left for its better and better application.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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Greek ethics began to pass from its gnomic condition when Socrates fixed attention on the gnothi seauton in the interests of moral reflection.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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And there's an obvious moral to the myth, isn't there? for critics who bark the loudest, commonly bark at their own shadow in the glass, as my Flush used to do long and loud, before he gained experience and learnt the [Greek: gnothi seauton] in the apparition of the brown dog with the glittering dilating eyes, ... and as I did, under the erasure.
The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Browning, Robert, 1812-1889 1898
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Many are in the shape of proverbs, e.g. _Longe fugit qui suos fugit_, _gnothi seauton_,
The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Charles Thomas Cruttwell 1879
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[Greek: gnothi seauton] of the more ancient Athenian, that principle is quite out of fashion in the nineteenth century (I believe that's the phrase).
Vivian Grey Benjamin Disraeli 1842
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The long, rambling dissertation on conceit to which I had just listened, from the Clockmaker, forcibly reminded me of the celebrated aphorism "gnothi seauton," know thyself, which, both from its great antiquity and wisdom, has been by many attributed to an oracle.
The Clockmaker Thomas Chandler Haliburton 1830
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