To know oneself means to be oneself, to be master of oneself, to distinguish oneself, to free oneself from a state of chaos, to exist as an element of order but of one's own order and one's own discipline in striving for an ideal. And we cannot be successful in this unless we also know others, their history, the successive efforts they have made to be what they are . . . And we must learn all this without losing sight of the ultimate aim: to know oneself better through others and to know others better through oneself.
Antonio Gramsci, "Socialism and Culture", The Gramsci Reader: Selected Writings 1916–1935, ed. David Forgacs
Antonio Gramsci, "Socialism and Culture", The Gramsci Reader: Selected Writings 1916–1935, ed. David Forgacs
Courage consists, however, in agreeing to flee rather than live tranquilly and hypocritically in false refuges. Values, morals, homelands, religions, and these private certitudes that our vanity and our complacency bestow generously on us, have many deceptive sojourns as the world arranges for those who think they are standing straight and at ease, among stable things.
Gilles Deleuze, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
Gilles Deleuze, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia