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Enlightenment, Adulting >

(on Wikipedia)

See also:

• Awareness

• Chinese: 知己 / zhī jǐ ("know yourself")

  • The characters for Buddha are 'man' and 'know'. ^[ 1 ] TODO - get the Chinese characters
  • 知己知彼 / zhī jǐ zhī bǐ - know yourself, know your enemy (idiom, from Sunzi's "The Art of War" 孫子兵法|孙子兵法[Sun1 zi3 Bing1 fa3]) ^[ 2 ] source
• German: "Erkenne Dich selbst" ^[ 3 ] source

• Greek (ancient): "γνώθι σεαυτόν" or "gnōthi seauton" ("Know thyself")

  • The apophthegm "Know thyself" is from Thales ^[ 4 ] and others , a c624-547 BC Astronomer, physicist and pioneer of analytic philosophy from Miletus. ^[ 5 ] source, earlier archive
  • One of the Delphic maxims, inscribed in golden letters at the lintel of the entrance to the Temple of Apollo at Delphi.
  • Secrets of Archaeology - (2003 show) calls it "Κνοω Τηψσελφ". ^[ 6 ] I think this was on the second disk, third episode @3:51

• Latin "Nosce te ipsum" ("Know Thyself")

  • In The Matrix - (1999 movie), "Et Nosce" is inscribed above the entrance to the Oracle's kitchen.
    -- I've seen people calling it "temet nosce".
• Russian: "Poznai sebia" ("Know yourself")