IT is certain, That Man seems to be a very inconsiderable Being, when we judge of him thro' the Prejudices of the Senses: We are not far from finding him uncapable of Vertue, when we consider his Vileness; and uncapable of Happiness, when we reflect upon his Misery.

Kahn, this fragment echoes a traditional belief that "know thyself" had an essentially similar meaning to the second Delphic maxim, "nothing too much"; both sayings might be considered alternative ways of describing the virtue of sophrosyne (lit. When we endeavour to Annihilate and Destroy this Phantome of Pride and Concu­piscence, which we discover'd in Man, 'tis not our Design to subscribe to the Eternal Arrest of our Misery and Vileness. He, who knows him

This idea was connected by some authors (including Clement of Alexandria and Ambrose) with the doctrine that God made man in his own image – so to know God is to know oneself, and vice versa. Thus Hegel makes use of the Delphic maxim to explain his theory that the human spirit manifests itself objectively as world history. But we cannot sufficiently admire this In­tellect of Man, which rectifies the Senses, corrects the Fancy, purifies and enlarges Bodily Perceptions, which unites together various Ideas in the Judgment it frames of Things, and various Judgments in Discourse; which weighs, compares, examines, enquires, and by the Relation it finds between Things, makes the Dependance of Arts, Sciences, Go­vernments, and produces all the Wonders of reasonable Society. This new version of “It Takes One To Know One” features liner notes based on interviews by Malcolm Dome with Michael Des Barres, recording engineer Richard Digby-Smith and guitarist Michael Monarch.

Have these Atoms, whose jumbling and clashing is a Thought, this ad­mirable Faculty of being able, as often as they meet and justle, to hit only the general Degree of Being or Substance, without hit­ting the Individual in this Motion, which Thought we term, Precision. Where we consider the most general Inclinations ofSelf-love;and in the first place the Desire of Happiness. As well as vocals and software, Raine plays rhodes piano, zither and various hardware synthesizers on Oneknowing, while Michaela Nachtigall contributes violin and viola to various tracks.

I have no leisure for them at all; and the reason, my friend, is this: I am not yet able, as the Delphic inscription has it, to know myself; so it seems to me ridiculous, when I do not yet know that, to investigate irrelevant things. The first known reference to the Seven Sages is in Plato's Protagoras, where they are said to have collectively authored the first two maxims. because] by examining and finding ourselves, we pass the more easily to the contemplation of the Whole. One of these fragments reads: "It belongs to all men to know themselves and think well [ sōphronein]" ( DK B116).