"Gnothi seauton" (Know thy self)
<p>In 1831, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson" title="Ralph Waldo Emerson" >Ralph Waldo Emerson</a> wrote a poem entitled "Γνώθι Σεαυτόν", or Gnothi Seauton ('Know Thyself'), on the theme of 'God in thee.' The poem was an anthem to Emerson's belief that to 'know thyself' meant knowing the<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God" title="God" >God</a> which Emerson felt existed within each person.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference" ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_thyself#cite_note-35" >[35]</a></sup>
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The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greece" title="Ancient Greece" >Ancient Greek</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphorism" title="Aphorism" >aphorism</a> "<b>know thyself</b>" (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek" title="Ancient Greek" >Greek</a>: γνῶθι σεαυτὸν, transliterated: <i>gnōthi seauton</i>; also ... σαυτὸν <i>… sauton</i> with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crasis" title="Crasis" >the ε contracted</a>), is one of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphic_maxims" title="Delphic maxims" >Delphic maxims</a> and was inscribed in the pronaos (forecourt) of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Apollo(Delphi)" class="mw-redirect" title="Temple of Apollo (Delphi)" >Temple of Apollo at Delphi</a> according to the Greek periegetic (travelogue) writer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pausanias(geographer)" title="Pausanias (geographer)" >Pausanias</a> (10.24.1).<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference" ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_thyself#cite_note-1" >[1]</a></sup>
The maxim, or aphorism, "know thyself" has had a variety of meanings attributed to it in literature. The <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suda" title="Suda" >Suda</a></i>, a 10th-century encyclopedia of Greek knowledge, says: "the proverb is applied to those whose boasts exceed what they are",<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_thyself#cite_note-2" >[2]</a></sup> and that "know thyself" is a warning to pay no attention to the opinion of the multitude.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_thyself#cite_note-3" >[3]</a></sup>
In <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin" title="Latin" >Latin</a> the aphorism is generally given as <i>nosce te ipsum</i><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference" ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_thyself#cite_note-4" >[4]</a></sup> or <i>temet nosce</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference" ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_thyself#cite_note-5" >[5]</a></sup>
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