Sentence examples for knowing itself from inspiring English sources

The I always already knows that it is justice, however, because in knowing itself as just, it knows itself as justice; for the just man is justice.

This profound work revives the thought that knowledge, precisely on account of being objective, is self-knowledge: knowledge knowing itself.

But being away and knowing itself to be away, it has the strength and the need to sing.

Plato's view of the soul also marks him as a spiritualist, and Aristotle was a spiritualist for distinguishing the active from the passive intellect and for conceiving of God as pure actuality (knowledge knowing itself).

There must have been a time a long way back in history when London felt like One Place, but gradually, while still knowing itself to be London, it became a conglomeration of villages, each with its own centre and character.

The self realizes itself not in knowing itself as distinct from other selves or things but through forms of self-negation.

For Maimonides, God is a pure knower described in Aristotelian terms as purely actualized intellect and as the act of knowing that knows itself.

A crowd at a sports event, a concert, or a riot might be a bit blurrier around the edges, but still knows itself by knowing where and when it is assembled in common visibility and common action.

We remember less through knowing information itself than by knowing where the information can be found".

But when I visited this past spring, with the rowdy San Fermin crowds absent, I found a city worth knowing for itself: filled with cultural and culinary high points, teeming with chatty night owls and sophisticated wine aficionados, and framed by the pointy foothills of the French Pyrenees to the north and wide plains to the south.

This presence, this knowing, manifests itself in Anam.