Know Thyself

Self-knowledge as a discipline — the Stoics, the essayists, and the writers who made introspection a way of life.

The ancient command, still unmet

In this collection

• In an Old Art Gallery
• Kholstomír
• Horne Tooke, Fox, and Pitt
• The Great River
• Planet of Dreams
• An Autumn Song
• Life
• Lines Written in Kensington Gardens
• April
• Psychoanalysis and Zen Buddhism
• Mal Moulee
• Metaphysics
• The Schoolmistress
• Earthly and Heavenly Wisdom; or, Stoop to Conquer
• Spanish and Italian Genius
• The Attack
• Of Fleeing from Vain Hope and Pride
• The Endless Pilgrimage
• The Righteous Mind
• The Man and his Image
• The Arbiter, the Almoner, and the Hermit

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