What does man actually know about himself?

Question

Is he, indeed, ever able to perceive himself completely, as if laid out in a lighted display case? Does nature not conceal most things from him-even concerning his own body-in order to confine and lock him within a proud, deceptive consciousness, aloof from the coils of the bowels, the rapid flow of the blood stream, and the intricate quivering of the fibers?

Answer 1

Even Socrates said that all he knew is that he knew nothing.

Answer 2

Very little. Socrates said that an unexamined life is not worth living, but that is just the life most choose to live! After all, who wants to grow up? Maturing means taking responsibility for yourself, and how can you do that if you don't first examine what you are being responsible for? Much easier to just have someone tell you what you want to hear, and reinforcing your ego--your delayed adolescence--go about the business of escaping actuality. That way you never have to consciously accept what is...what you don't want to hear. Thus you will never know yourself actually, let alone completely, because that would require a conscious withdrawel from self-indulgence--ego's hold on you--and choosing to take the heat of ego's fire (our life's energy), still the mind, laying to rest your haughty pride.

Answer 3

They really have to stop paying people to teach philosophy. It's a waste of money and serves no purpose except sending a perfectly good brain into oblivion.

Answer 4

Nature does no such thing. I'm appalled that you would blame nature, of all things. Of course it's man who is too scared to look at himself, afraid of the greatness he might see.

Answer 5

Okay, so you're saying that I've spent my whole life trying to figure out men and you don't even know about YOURSELVES?

And they say women are impossible.

Answer 6

The only that we know is that one day will we die